The U.K. government must roll out emergency measures quickly to help industrial energy users cope with the gas crisis, or face business shutting down this winter, a lobby group warned. Europe’s gas crunch has hit sectors from fertilizers to metals, and there’ll likely be production halts and disruption to supply chains without government action, the Energy Intensive Users Group said Tuesday. It urged the U.K. to use emergency measures, including containing costs on gas, power and carbon prices to allow the most exposed companies to keep producing essential goods. Gas markets have tightened just as the heating season starts in the Northern Hemisphere. Britain in particular is feeling the blow because it lacks large storage facilities and relies heavily on imports of the fuel, causing power costs in the country to surge. “We have already seen the impact of the truly astronomical increases in energy costs on production in […]