Britain will ban new coal mines as part of Ed Miliband’s drive to hit Net Zero carbon emission, while China continues to power its economy – and make our wind turbines and solar panels – mainly with coal. The Telegraph has more.
The Government said it was bringing forward a decision to restrict new licences, ending an era of coal-fired power generation that at its peak supported more than one million jobs.
It follows the closure of the last U.K. coal power station in September, ending 142 years of coal-fired generation in the U.K.
Ratcliffe-on-Soar closed on September 30th following five decades of service that powered more than two million homes and produced enough electricity to make more than one billion cups of tea per day.
The Energy Secretary is pushing forward with plans to achieve clean power by 2030, with Britain the first major economy to stop burning coal for power.
Mr. Miliband’s decision to shun coal is in stark contrast to the previous Government, which gave the green light to the first new deep coal mine in 30 years. …
Michael Shanks, the Energy Minister, said the decision will help the U.K. to transition to a more “clean, secure energy system”.
He said: “Coal mining powered this country for over 140 years and we owe a huge debt to workers who kept the lights on for homes and businesses across the country.
“Now the U.K. is in prime position to lead the way in phasing out coal power around the world, which remains the single largest contributor to global emissions.”
Worth reading in full.
Hmm, leading the world. Let’s take a look at that.
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“Only in my hometown of Brighton and Hove…”
Would that it were only possible in Brighton and Hove.
Legal professionals are everywhere manifesting their make-believe virtual worlds through the manipulation of language and expert whataboutery. If a corporation can be a person, why can’t a man be women?
An excellent vehicle by which to destroy a country.
Sorry but this is really a bit silly. The law regards companies as legal persons so that they can be legally liable and be sued. If you wanted to sue a company you would be glad of that.
This makes my blood boil. Who really has the welfare of children at the heart of their thinking? Children’s parents or children’s state service providers? The latter are not only incentivised by woke dogma, but also by their very real need to feel good about themselves. Feel good about themselves by destroying the lives of innocent children. I couldn’t despise these creatures more; they are evil. I’m not sure what I would do if I had young children being indoctrinated like this by this filth. Nothing good.
Labour are communists in disguise. They are showing their true communist, totalitarian colours in Brighton and other places they control. A coming Labour government will have people in gulags: cancellation, firing from jobs and then polizei stasi investigating your thinking will become the norm. We are heading for a very dark place in this country. The socialists are coming for you and your thoughts and freedom. Hopefully it will cause civil unrest and they will be destroyed.
Labour are vile. A clear and present danger to children and the people of this country. How in God’s name are people really favouring this shower of communist dictators??.our people have become mad. They deserve their prison which is coming fast.
The really simple explantion for events like this, especially the transition from Green -> Labour without any change of the Against the people united we stand! political agenda is that there’s money to be had by acting in this way. So-called trans activists are adults seeking to exploit vulnerable, eg, depressive or autistic, children, for their own benefit. And council sold the children to them based on being legally entitled to imprison them in so-called school buildings for most of their time which have thus found new and much more exciting and profitable purpose than teaching them boring stuff like history or maths.
The methods of these people may resemble those of Marxists. But they’re certainly not planning to uplift the working class to decent standards of living by fighting against their exploitative employers.
Forget the gender nonsense and concentrate on the real issues that these children will face .
The majority of these schoolchildren will no longer have their birth father living in their home by the time they are 7years old and there is NO money or organisations out there to help them understand and survive these changes.
There is something particularly evil about this assault on the mental health and emotional integrity of young children. Frankly I can understand it when parents faced with this situation take the law into their own hands.
TLDR
I did read it. But the article could have benefitted from some editorial shortening.
I wonder why nobody is investigating why so many children have these transgender issues, is it environmental toxins?