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[Adrian]

In case anyone hadn't heard, Kellingley Colliery in Yorkshire closes today, the last of our 4 surviving pits to go. A sad end to our once great coal industry. They haven't run out of coal, but cheap foreign imports as much as "green" pressures finally killed it off. I hate globalism.



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[Scalyback]

I guess you meant the last surviving pit?

If it were the last of four surviving, there would be three left?


Anyway, it's a sad end for a once great industry.

[Adrian]

Sorry, that is the last one, the other three survived **until** earlier this year. That they had survived this long was something of an achievement. Clean coal power and a measure of energy self-sufficiency is possible, but not attractive enough.

[PeteF]

Kellingly was the last deep coal mine in the country. A few open cast pits survive however.

[jefrs]

Very short sighted action : once a mine is closed you can't get it back and once we lose the skill set it is gone forever. What a waste of resource.

[Scalyback]

The gov. promised lots of money to provide clean coal burning with Shell, but guess who went back on their word? (permission for fracking in natural parks and areas SSSI got slipped through today, even though they promised they wouldn't last january!)

Rant over, Viva France!

[apparently lucky eddie]

And whilst we get the Frenchies and even the Chinese to build nuclear power stations in England and we import natural gas from around the world, the Germans go self-sufficient and build ever more clean-coal fired power stations. Punch-my-face Cameron and his tory minions are soooo short-sighted it beggars belief. Just how sensible is it to rely on possibly hostile nations for ones energy supplies.

[Scalyback]

Yes. but if we exported coal to france, they would probably just burn it like they did the beef anyway!

[jefrs]

It's not fracking it's exploration, cough, cough, cough...



An old friend of mine did his geo-chemist PhD thesis on the Jurassic Coast Dorset and showed there's an unbelievable amount of shale oil down there. Kinda watch this space...