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Hinkley B construction started 1967 started generating 1975. But Britain, no longer has the engineering talent to build new nuclear power stations.
Is there 'something' that you are sooooo passionate about...
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EddieM
Oh, I don't know, DRAX the largest coal fired power station in western europe, and the largest single electricity generator in the UK about 7%, certainly gets through a fair bit of imported coal
cant expect a jurno to get everything right
and how do you propose to get it out plonker you can't reopen a pit once closed
it had nothing to do with economics it was down to thatcher
even her sidekick at the time admits they went to far
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/mar/09/tebbit-mining-communities
Hi marra.
Hope you give that rad a seeing to!
Why can't you reopen pits or extract coal if the demand comes back?
Hope you give that rad a seeing to!
Why can't you reopen pits or extract coal if the demand comes back?
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EddieM
Why can't you reopen pits or extract coal if the demand comes back?
You can but it is very expensive, as a lot have been allowed to flood.
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So Kevplumb.
You say we've got 300 years of coal left but because a few worn out pits closed the rest of the coal can't be excavated?
We closed the pits because the customer base disappeared when we converted to Nth Sea Oil.
Is that an oil rig on your back?
You say we've got 300 years of coal left but because a few worn out pits closed the rest of the coal can't be excavated?
We closed the pits because the customer base disappeared when we converted to Nth Sea Oil.
Is that an oil rig on your back?
yer talking carp and you know it
i note WE closed the pits that just about puts you where you belong thatcherite the customers hadnt dissapeared at all your mate thatcher and mcgregor closed them aswell IE steelworks shipyards ring a bell
as eddie says once they have flooded its nearly impossible to reopen them they are unstable and have prob collapsed and afore you start joe you cant dig near them for the same reason if your gonna argue at least learn what you are talking about first
the rad is a bit buckled bahco
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Before yea kick off kev i saw the DADDY OF ALL SCABS i was a pit man myself i was down the pit mi sin mi old cripperr i worked at bold colliery in st helens i starved and so did my family i had parcels donated fr5om other people to feed us while the so called scabs whent to work but in he end to was it worth it while the bankers reap billions in proffits every year the brag about then suddenly they are bankrupt saying we are broke .
wake up kev the country is corrupt but not for long BOYYO as ISAM will take over the world, uk will fall first but usa will also be dominated by this cancer,
you gotta understand the politicians and the upper class wich are the small minority which or another cancer dont give a sh,,it about the worker or the soldier,take a look at that ****** haigh dont run walk over no mans land, did we see thiS assssss hole walk over NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IRON maidan LYRICS:-
The great war is yet to come
The storm is a building within are lands.
are homes and heads will meet the grain of the dying faith we had
its all over now so reap yea coal of dust and pile up and blow it away.
wake up kev the country is corrupt but not for long BOYYO as ISAM will take over the world, uk will fall first but usa will also be dominated by this cancer,
you gotta understand the politicians and the upper class wich are the small minority which or another cancer dont give a sh,,it about the worker or the soldier,take a look at that ****** haigh dont run walk over no mans land, did we see thiS assssss hole walk over NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IRON maidan LYRICS:-
The great war is yet to come
The storm is a building within are lands.
are homes and heads will meet the grain of the dying faith we had
its all over now so reap yea coal of dust and pile up and blow it away.
Have you been eating those funny mushrooms again out of the park BOB?
Have you been eating those funny mushrooms again out of the park BOB?
either that, or his Indian head dress from all those roosters (that he sees but no one else does) is a bit snug on that fat head of his.
Nonsense. Do the infamous words 'dash for gas' register at all joe?
And they close up. You can't reopen an existing pit, needs to be a whole new shaft. Anyhoo, open-cast would be more likely, at first anyway.
Looking at the long-term strategy though... We were importing coal because it was cheaper than hoying it out of the ground ourselves. Admittedly that doesn't look at the whole picture (paying benefits to unemployed people, regenerating depressed areas etc).
So, in a few more years when imported coal is becoming more and more scarce, we can switch back to domestic coal! Much better than using our own up and THEN finding we can't import. As a nation, we're basically investing in British coal futures.
I'd be interested to see where 300 years comes from though, I've not been able to find reliable estimates of how much coal is in the ground.
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Is that all you ar Kev 50 
You must have had a really hard long paper round. Explains why you where still an apprentice 4 / 5 years after you should have finished.
Perhaps the miners where like steelworkers who took advantage of the goose that was laying the golden egg and made the product so un profitable they had to close.
And if your honest you know what i am on about regards the fiddles within the steel industry in the 70`s and early 80`s
You must have had a really hard long paper round. Explains why you where still an apprentice 4 / 5 years after you should have finished.Perhaps the miners where like steelworkers who took advantage of the goose that was laying the golden egg and made the product so un profitable they had to close.
And if your honest you know what i am on about regards the fiddles within the steel industry in the 70`s and early 80`s
Is that all you ar Kev 50
Perhaps the miners where like steelworkers who took advantage of the goose that was laying the golden egg and made the product so un profitable they had to close.
And if your honest you know what i am on about regards the fiddles within the steel industry in the 70`s and early 80`s
not my fault the jurno didnt listen i know fiddling was rife in the steel industry dunno about the pits tho
