Britain to ban coal mines under Miliband’s net zero plans

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1. All this does is restrict the ability of some of the most impoverished areas of our country from being able to access and benefit from our natural wealth – all to make a largely London and urban economic elite feel fuzzy inside.

2. * In 2015, the UK government announced that it would phase out coal for energy by 2025, and this date was brought forward to 2024.
   * The amount of coal consumed in the UK has dropped significantly, from 157 million tonnes in 1970 to 587,000 tonnes in 2023.
   * As of January to March 2023, there were 344–363 people employed in coal mining in the UK.

   The Telegraph trying to manipulate people, yet again.

3. So labour are now in favour of closing the mines, how the turntables have tabled turned

4. This is great news for my wife’s candle collection, she has about 10 years worth so looking at energy policies in the UK we will finally have a need for them

5. While from an energy perspective we’ve done well, we have just outsourced a lot of the other demand to imports. It seems crazy to me to ban all coal production while quite happily still importing it and products made from it by the ship full. If we want to ban coal, actually ban coal.

6. We still import coal from across the world at a much greater price and environmental cost.

   This is just whitewashing our record whilst further increasing energy bills.

7. Beamish living musurm is going to struggle without coal has everything is runned by coal there.

8. Will the Chinese agree to that ?

   We buy a lot of steel from them which is forged using coal from mines.

   No, I thought not, its only UK mines he plans to ban.

9. We still need a few coal mines that meet some sort of emissions plan to still produce for the steel industry

10. Well, at some point you climate extremists are going to have to decide between economic growth and your net zero goals. Welcome to where the rubber hits the road

11. Good. Cant be good for human health for a start off let alone everything else

12. I am involved in a few coal mine geothermal projects and one of the biggest barriers we have run into is how hard it is to get UK coal samples to study. On one hand, I’m all NetZero and energy transition and am 100% on board.

    But then the other hand we have to buy Chinese coal to study British georhermal, and the relevance of it isnt as strong. Theres an irony that a lack of coal is hindering some netzero projects.

13. We’re going to be left an overpopulated third world hellhole without our own food fuel or energy , oh but we will have zero emissions , which haven’t gone we just moved them to another country , fuck net zero

14. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to keep some open. Don’t we need coal to produce coke to produce steel.

15. Can’t wait for a month long cold patch and being close blackouts due to our energy reliance on the open market. We are completely at risk over the next 10 years till more projects come online.

    We literally have zero energy storage capability and we’ve already seen in winter 22, 23 here at a few times we were days away from blackouts. The Russia / conflict shows our weakness, or worse yet look how it impacted Germany and its economy.

    I really do hope they are keeping some coal mines and coal power stations in a working standby mode as some sort of risk management system.

    Knowing net zero Ed, something tells me he doesn’t.

16. thats ok, we can just buy it in from india where they adhere to the strictest environmental regulations

17. Would be good if we kept some open and we can at least make our own power. But nope, net zero. This country is years away from being able to run on green energy.

18. We need to ban Miliband before he turns us into a developing country. 

19. Mmmm good, it’s far better for the planet to ship Wood chips over from Canada anyway… its not like we need trees for anything. And we’re definitely not going to cut them down faster than they grow, and we definitely won’t destroy ecosystems to create monoculture forests for fuel production.

    If the woods a bit wet we can just throw some car tires in there to get it burning a bit hotter, it’s totally green!

    Green energy is a myth, it relys on battery technology that may never exist. Creating a solar panel takes a huge amount of energy and produces huge amounts of toxic pollination, and requires many non-renewable materials.

    I really feel like we don’t have a good answer yet, but this new generation of ‘green’ energy solutions just isn’t it. Nuclear remains our cleanest, most renewable form of energy production.

20. My knowledge from british politics come mostly from my british-andalucian friend and a couple beers but didn’t labor hate margaret thatcher for that (and other things)?

21. I was all for this in 2015…we’d pictured some kind of clean energy utopia where coal would be redundant anyway.

    But it’s 2024 and a lot of people still use coal. Older people.

    Cut it off for manufacturers, sure.

    But household coal should stay for at least another 10-20 years.

    I hope the remaining stocks tide us over till they deliver this time…they probably won’t but hey.

22. Taking away children’s rights to die in a cave in or from black lung at the ripe old Age of 39…

    ITS WOKE!!

23. Yeh we’ll just have it shipped from China on a diesel powered shop instead, for the planet yo.

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