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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It is circumstances like this that reveal beyond doubt what are the values of the Conservatives. The few who complained include some who did nothing when Ministers but the bulk of the Conservative Party sees no reason to object.
Left wingers are preferred to GB News, in their eyes.
However much this same small band of Tory MPs remonstrate with their Party on various issues they don’t make the slightest difference in the big state, leftwards drift of the Party.
“Good practice”??????????????????? So Cultural Marxism is good? All media must spout leftist progressive dogma to be classed as “Good”? When you only have one narrative you have tyranny. Conservative views are to be criminalised. If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives.
“If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives….”
….and Resign their seats.
Right wing?? so, a level headed, common sense, white british male human being like me is right wing am i?
If that’s what you progressive mp’s want to call 80% of your countries voters then,so be it! I’m a right wing racist! and I’ll vote accordingly!
Your apparent belief that level-headed, common-sense, white British men exist marks you obviously as fascist, ie, throroughly despicable opponent of the people who don’t who’s secretly itching to genocide transwomen by excluding them from women’s sport competitions or something likewise horrible, say, torture millions of people to death.
Do you know me?
Can’t we have some sort of truth-in-advertising which stop groups like Stop funding hate!
from using obviously misleading names for themselves to (try to) hide the actual focus of their activities? Would a betting outlet be allowed to advertise itself as Provider of financial services many people chose to trust?
How quickly would things change if all government advertising was pulled from CAN members?
Jim Hacker was meant to represent the typical, spineless Tory MP but he did at least try to fight The Blob, and occasionally won.
These kind of spineless so called “representatives of the poeple” make my f-ing blood boil!
So the government is happy with the bully-boy tactics of CAN. What a surprise.
Pedantic comment: scepticism of or regarding, not “towards”. Sorry.
Is this the same advertising world which regularly over represents coloured and mixed race families in TV advertisements?