Kanjor

[Drax]

CLAIRON PICARD
 
PREMIER DISCUSSES ENERGY OBJECTIVES

 

Premier’s Offices, January 20, 5624:  After a meeting with his senior staff and personnel from the Transport, Science and Technology, Energy, Agriculture, Public Works, Economic Development and Finance Ministries, Premier Fabrice Courbet was asked by CLAIRON PICARD what expansion was planned, and he responded:
 

Quite frankly, we have to live with waiting for tax reform to again produce enough surplus to get to next focused push and with probability a military priority is going to be that next focus, specifically applying Soteira radar technology to units which do not have it,
 
But meeting today was to identify long term goals for energy policy.  Silliers and Numineux Provinces have nuclear generated electricity. The others have hydroelectric power.  All Provincial electrical  grids are supplemented by wind and solar generated electric power.  Our long term goal is to have nuclear generated power in all Provinces but this may be a quite long term goal; it is not a short term goal.
 
We have ongoing contracts for importing plenty of petroleum both as gasoline and crude oil to fuel our transportation needs.  We have a refinery in Numineux province.  South Seleyan Oil and Gas (SSOG)  has shares in a Rildanorean company whose oil rig blew up but also has Qat Oil Services, a long established Majatran oil driller, armed with a contract with that company to explore and exploit certain potential oil fields.  SSOG is looking into whether this arrangement is sufficient to allow oil and gas exploitation in the Odufart Sea as an option.
 
But what we really want to do is reduce use of fossil fuels.  Elimination is unlikely and certainly impractical for the foreseeable future; but reduction is quite possible.  Getting people into electric vehicles is something we can help to increase.
 
What we decided is when we have an opportunity we will try to increase the use of electric farm equipment used throughout Royaume Uni de Kanjor by loans, loan guarantees and grants. A good start has been made in Numineux and some are in use in Martois and Val d’Azur Provinces.
 
We will be revisiting electric passenger vehicles which incidentally we export but supplying powering stations outside Numineux Province for them is not going to be our next focus.

 
Premier Courbet