Kellingley Question

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  1. Row

    Rowzred New Member

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    Process of importing coal:

    Dig it up in Russia / China etc - chuck it on a train - transport it to a port - chuck it on a boat - sail to the UK - chuck it on another train - transport it to a UK Coal power station where it can be used.

    Process of coal from Kellingley:

    Dig it up in Kellingley - chuck it on a train - transport it 4 miles down the road to Eggbrough. Job done.

    How the **** can it be cheaper to import the ******* stuff?
     
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    Xerxes Well-Known Member

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    Cost of labour, insurance, health and safety etc in UK outweighs the costs you have indicated.
     
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    They can make a balance sheet say anything.

    Plus the 'green question - don't ask how it's greener to import woodchip from USA for Drax, rather than invest in clean coal/carbon capture.

    Shower of cnuts that run this country.
     
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    nobody in government mentions the global climate cost of all this transport , seems it dosent matter in these cases
     
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    sawdriver Active Member

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    yep totally agree
     
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    Then add on to that the cost of benefits to the now non-working families, and how do the figures for UK PLC stack up?, plus the fact that as the international price rises, or there is a crisis where we can no longer fetch it in we have a home grown source ready to fill the gap.
     
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    MrsHallsToffeerolls Well-Known Member

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    A parliament of Crooks like.
     
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    'thereev' Banned Idiot

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    forget the pits folks......crippled thirty odd years....please move on

    plenty of minimum wage jobs darn at Manvers call centres for the those who wanna work.

    hth
     
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    I once bought some flagstones

    from India - proper sandstone flags - which were cheaper than any locally made concrete ones. Costs of labour out there is a fraction of those here.
     
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    Gimson&theBarnsleys Well-Known Member

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    Probably quarried not mined; hundreds of tonnes per hour not per shift.
     
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    Good point!!
     
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    Gimson&theBarnsleys Well-Known Member

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    Not be when it's replaced wi fracked gas power generation.
     
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    Gimson&theBarnsleys Well-Known Member

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    Re: I once bought some flagstones

    Ar, especially when it's child labour.
     
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    Opencast mining is much cheaper.
     
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    True... But who actually is it ?
     
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    Multinational corporations, finance houses, Osborne's mates and unelected twerps in Brussels.
     
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    Homer Well-Known Member

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    This Tory government have got what they wanted. Started by Thatcher, to grind the miners into the floor
    Never been cost, or mines uneconomic. All that proved wrong
    They are now going to shut coal fired power stations then job done
     
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    Simple. It's called subsidy.
     
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    Sopwith Camel Well-Known Member

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    Its been like it a long time mate, when you have a spare 5 mins google/youtube Admiralty law or maritime law
     
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    Russia,Columbia and even Australia all subsidise their coal industries,Australia even subsidise the transport costs,most of the coal we import comes from the first two of these countries.
    in contrast our industry received nothing and was in fact loaded with a nuclear fuel levy and £19 per tonne carbon floor tax,there was also a carbon tax on every trainload of uk mined coal.

    the power workers left us to rot during the strike and their union leader publicly stated that the miners problem wasnt theirs...Coal fired power stations are now on their way out and its all political,we had the technology to burn coal cleanly but the government decided hundreds of thousands of jobs was a price worth paying to get rid of coal once and for all.
     
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