Aint it time to re open all those mines Thatcher closed ?

That's too obvious, they never do the obvious.

Loads of Shale gas as well - far too cheap.

only one slight problem i can see who or where are you going to get the people to work down there

£30 an hr to pick fruit or risk my life in a mine for £13 an hour
it sure is a toughie

it sure is a toughie

Well it might be for you.

When grown up men stick little yellow faces on the end of ever sentence, you have to wonder what's going on in their heads.

its the polite way of saying right wing brextremists are BFM

i get my laughs in today because i,m busy tomorrow taking down my allotment,digging up the vegatable batch and getting rid of all my british goods because apparently now we,ve put up barriers between us and the worlds largest trading area ,loony brexiteers have decided we dont need skilled butchers,farmers,agri food sector because we can import all we need and its cheaper ,
global britian on the high seas hasnt lasted a year

1tp Spot on you would have import miners ,no one this day and age would want their son or daughter going down a mine

remember 10 yrs ago when my steelworks was closing and BIGBY BONES was on daily politics said we dont want what he called dust and sparks job we want jobs like where ive spent this morning mclaren formula 1 garage high tec mechanics /engineers, 10 years the skills mp,s want to see money thrown out
butchers
agri food workers
hgv drivers
now aneil/the rigt on here want to reintroduce miners,
and by the time these people are skilled they,ll have moved the goalposts again and say people have the wrong skills
like i say everyday for last 45 yrs people queuing up to tell my skills wont be required next year [ WELDER ], once again got a shout out today 45byrs on for been on the skilled workers list

Maybe the OP fancies a bit of Mining

no one this day and age would want their son or daughter going down a mine

They never did. That's why the money was so good to attract them.

A lot of mining is open cast anyway.

First new deep coalmine in UK for 30 years gets go ahead

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/02/first-new-deep-coalmine-in-uk-for-30-years-gets-green-light

UK's biggest source of greenhouse gas?  Drax 'eco' power station in Yorkshire burns wood pellets that are treated as a 'renewable' fuel but emit more carbon dioxide than coal, research shows

and timber calls other people thick

Analysis shows that the burning of wood for power known as biomass has been the cause of more carbon dioxide emissions than coal since 2019.

Drax burns millions of tonnes of wood to provide around 12 per cent of the UK's total electric power, generating 15.6megatonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which cause the planet to heat up by trapping heat around the Earth, the greenhouse effect.

he still doesn't understand that trees are renewable.  And he calls other people thick.

The power station is also one of the top five emitters in Europe of toxic air pollution particles known as PM10.

Drax 'eco' power station in Yorkshire burns wood pellets that are treated as a 'renewable' fuel

timber doesn't understand that trees are renewable.  And he calls other people thick.

dave doesn't understand what renewable means, it has nothing to do with emissions

all that carbon the trees soak up

i wonder what happens to it when we burn them?

the new mgt plant on teesside not yet online ships its wood pellets in from north america

The government will no longer defend a decision, made by the previous government, to allow a controversial new coalmine in Cumbria.

The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, has accepted there was an “error of law” in the decision to grant planning permission for the mine in December 2022.

Consequently, the government will not now be defending two legal challenges next week against the mine – by Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change

Knucklehead Ned on the rampage.

It was a tragedy when she closed all the open crust jam butty mines in Knotty Ash. All them diddy men thrown on the dole!

dave1357 09 Oct 21 13:38 
he still doesn't understand that trees are renewable.  And he calls other people thick.

..................................

I don't understand this argument. Why is the earth better for leaving coal where it is underground?
We won't run out before we transition and might as well use that as import wood pellets.

It's a technical argument, as you can grow trees to replace wood
but can't make coal.

You could, surely, grow trees to replace carbon in coal burnt.

Whatever you do it will take 80 years for the new trees to grow to maturity and fully absorb the emitted carbon dioxide when according to the nutters we have only a few weeks, months or years to save the planet. It therefore makes more sense to burn coal rather than wood since it is more energy dense and you don't cut down vast numbers of trees in the process.

The trees are growing, the coal ain't reforming.

Not sure why you want to burn coal, or wood, it stinks.

Foinavon12 Jul 24 23:24Joined: 11 Oct 00 | Topic/replies: 20,814 | Blogger: Foinavon's blog
Whatever you do it will take 80 years for the new trees to grow to maturity and fully absorb the emitted carbon dioxide when according to the nutters we have only a few weeks, months or years to save the planet. It therefore makes more sense to burn coal rather than wood since it is more energy dense and you don't cut down vast numbers of trees in the process


stick that up in spanish please clever bolleaux

----you-have-to-laugh--- 12 Jul 24 22:15 
It's a technical argument, as you can grow trees to replace wood
but can't make coal.

.................
That's my point, no one ever explains how there is any benefit in keeping coal buried if it is going to
be useless in the future. We don't need to replace coal.

Irish,puedes preguntarle al camarero.

amazed clever bolleaux foinirony does google translate!

-you-have-to-laugh--- 12 Jul 24 22:15
It's a technical argument, as you can grow trees to replace wood
but can't make coal.

.................
That's my point, no one ever explains how there is any benefit in keeping coal buried if it is going to
be useless in the future. We don't need to replace coal.


But wood gets an exemption as its replaceable

I'm not convinced, but that's the argument in a nett zero world.

Is that what you do sucker? No wonder local shopkeepers ignore you.
Lfc is worth ten of you.

Wadc

Controversial Cumbria coal mine plan thrown out by High Court judge
The decision to approve the UK's first coal mine for 30 years has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

Today's ruling likely forces Angela Rayner, the Labour government's housing, communities and local government secretary, to reconsider the planning application for the Whitehaven coal mine - this time taking into account the full damage it could do to the climate.

Mr Justice Holgate said in his judgment: "The assumption that the proposed mine would not produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, or would be a net zero mine, is legally flawed."

At a hearing in July, the newly elected government had already decided not to defend the previous Conservative administration's decision to greenlight the project, following new legal developments.

The future of the proposed mine is now uncertain.