Six programmes on the present plight and future shape of town and country.
5: The Energy Trap
Britain's energy policy is to concentrate on the rapid extraction of North Sea oil and on reducing energy consumption, in order to cope with the immediate problem - the huge deficit in the balance of payments. Are we setting a trap for ourselves?
Malcolm MacEwen in conversation With BERNARD DELAPALM , director of a French oil company; DR RICHARD EDEN , author of the NEDO report on energy conservation; HENRYK HARBOE, Danish engineer, expert on coal combustion technology; LORD HINTON OF BANKSIDE, former Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board; AMORY LLOVINS , physicist of Friends of the Earth: DR NIGEL LUCAS , Lecturer in Energy Policy, Imperial College, London; and SEAN MULCAHY , heating and ventilating engineer. Producer LEONIE COHN