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UK coal use to fall to lowest level since industrial revolution
- stealthlogic 12y agoExcellent.
- transfire 12y agoGood.
- verelo 12y agoFunny, this was the exact status update I used when i shared this on Facebook earlier. I appreciate that our reactions are "Good" rather than "Think of the jobs!", because unfortunatly that has been the tone in the last 30 years and its really very disapointing that we destroy the planet to avoid a less than idea economy.
- bobdvb 12y agoInterestingly the rhetoric around oil has currently been around jobs because of the fall in oil prices making the North Sea / Brent oil unsustainable. Interestingly when I checked the price of Brent is about the same as it was about 6 years ago but it seems the cost of production has risen substantially in that time. So, while jobs might be at risk in Scotland it was only a matter of time anyway.
- kristopolous 12y agoAre there significant political elements who champion dirty energy and deny its effects in the UK like there are in the US?
- jamescun 12y agoYes, but I wouldn't say to the same extent. In terms of energy, it flows very much left to right. Left Right Green Labour Conservatives UKIP Climate Change X X X Renewables X X Nuclear X X X Fossil Fuels X X Between the two major parties (Labour and Conservatives) there is widespread support for belief in Climate Change just difference of opinions on how to tackle it.
- twic 12y agoNot that i've heard from. We import most of our coal [1], so there isn't a big domestic coal industry to fund them. [1] http://www.coalimp.org.uk/3.html http://www.coalimp.org.uk/3.html