Kellingley Question

I had the same argument about eggborough shutting with my mate and he said it would never happen...... He's panicking now! A once great industry in this country is now no more and following on from it the power stations and the workers that didn't support the miners are now going the same way.

It's a worrying time in the Selby district with kellingley gone and eggborough set to follow we are losing a lot of jobs and not replacing them. The Tory MP round here likes to blow his own trumpet about his job fairs which are fantastic if you like minimum wage on zero hours for a couple of weeks.

RIP British Coal

 

Listen up everyone:

The cost of the imported coal is immaterial - it could be given away at present for all I know - what is material, and for me the one question that cannot be properly answered is this:

What is the cost of surety of supply? - the 70's saw the country crippled by the high price of oil

There is International political instability - with one of the major players also a leading supplier of gas
We as a country are reliant on imported fuel to generate electricity
We cannot dictate the level of oil production and hence its price
Our own electricity generating capacity is near its limit - so lets hope this mild weather continues.....

Like I said surety of supply - may cost slightly more in the short term - so who would rather spend the same amount for their heating/electric bills knowing that hundreds of thousands of people had secure jobs or pay for increased profits for shareholders of the privatised electric companies.

Don't even think abart spending billions on a nuclear deterrent..............

 

Surely transporting the stuff half way round the world cant be cheap though!?

 

When it's the price of imported milk and the farmers livelihoods are affected everybody goes Aww and seem happy to pay more for their milk to bail 'em out.

But when it's miners' jobs nobody cares. It's so wrong.

 

It doesn't and never will make any sense to me!

Like FIFA, one day it'll come out that certain 'decisions' were made in brown paper bags stuffed full of used notes

 

The cost of coal won't matter to us soon because the EU have decreed that we should shut all our coal fired power stations. But never mind, we can always rely on fecking wind. Oh hang on...

 

Cheers pal, will do.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71a6hnrxhQ

Here's a snipit... have a little dig about.

 

wonder why there isn't the same who ha now the Solar Industry is under threat?

This government simply doesn't have a consistent and realistic energy policy.

Coal?

Carbon Capture?

Solar?

Wind?

Tidal?

Nuclear?

Gas?