Coal mine go-ahead 'undermines climate summit'
19/01/2021
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The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.
"10 of the most polluting businesses in Europe - 7 in Germany and 3 in Canada."
Canada is in Europe????
Canada is in Europe????
Young lady Thunberg seems an awful lot cleverer than you .... perhaps you should rename as Mr Black Polluted Sky?
Oh, Jenrick's involved ... brown paper envelopes ... 'donations' to the tory party ... say no more!
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The arguments here are the need for the mine for steel production . If this is the only way to produce steel , then all the arguments against this are going to fall on deaf ears . Steel is needed , whether the mine is here or in another country .
This isn't the only way, clown.
The Tories have destroyed UK steel and have destroyed UK mining.
They are the ones who are running the upcoming global Green conference.
And they are the ones waving this through.
Any old gibberish from any old posh mediocrity will do for you, won't it Grandad?
You lot don't care just so long as you can blame all your lifes failures on Pakistan Removed
The Tories have destroyed UK steel and have destroyed UK mining.
They are the ones who are running the upcoming global Green conference.
And they are the ones waving this through.
Any old gibberish from any old posh mediocrity will do for you, won't it Grandad?
You lot don't care just so long as you can blame all your lifes failures on Pakistan Removed
UK steel was destroyed by cheap, subsidised, foreign imports
Very partisan inaccurate comments there, you omit to mention we were tied into the EU, bound by rules that forbid the government to temporary support our steel industry with state funds.
Not very bright are you.
Coal was only needed in high quality steel produced from old open hearth furnaces which were scrapped 60 years ago,this country has had Arc Furnaces for 80 years requiring no coal.
Happy to see that most can see the lefty liberal media feeding frenzy for what it is
They'll distil this down even more simply if the green lobby don't get their way
Cumbria coal mine to start production - runaway climate change
Cumbria coal mine shelved - planet saved (with accompanying photo of polar bear) Removed
They'll distil this down even more simply if the green lobby don't get their way
Cumbria coal mine to start production - runaway climate change
Cumbria coal mine shelved - planet saved (with accompanying photo of polar bear) Removed
Happy to see that most can see the lefty liberal media feeding frenzy for what it is
They'll distil this down even more simply if the green lobby don't get their way
Cumbria coal mine to start production - runaway climate change (with photo of smoke stack)
Cumbria coal mine shelved - planet saved (with photo of polar bear) Removed
They'll distil this down even more simply if the green lobby don't get their way
Cumbria coal mine to start production - runaway climate change (with photo of smoke stack)
Cumbria coal mine shelved - planet saved (with photo of polar bear) Removed
Talking about pollution. Milan are the latest city to ban smoking within 30 feet of people and in parks, etc. Best thing ever. Whole of UK need to follow suit. Sick of inhaling smoker's 2nd hand smoke giving me a bad chest. When covid preys on our lungs and we are all trying to stay healthy.
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Are you a 5 year old girl? Utterly pathetic comment and irrelevant to the discussion.
No
No
And no
Area of high unemployment
Build a battery factory there given EU / UK deal makes this a necessity
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And no
Area of high unemployment
Build a battery factory there given EU / UK deal makes this a necessity
Some embarrassing comments in this forum today. However, I notice it's generally children who believe in man made climate change rather than adults.
Genuine question - are there any steel plants in the world that use hydrogen? And would the steel be produced at a cost that would make it competitive in the market or is this another green project that needs massive taxpayer subsidy?
Humans need Steel .. Humans do not need the BBC, Green Party or COP26.
The BBC should be made to create and use it's own food, technology and information.
Perhaps then when it falls flat on its backside the facts will hit home and the Rhetoric will stop.
Practice what you preach BBC.
The BBC should be made to create and use it's own food, technology and information.
Perhaps then when it falls flat on its backside the facts will hit home and the Rhetoric will stop.
Practice what you preach BBC.
No coal=no steel. It's as simple as that. However, steel would still be made here, but with coal imported from Russia or China, which would be even more environmentally unfriendly. And then there's the heritage steam railway business which has an annual turnover of hundreds of millions of pounds. Is that going to have to stop too?
We need some brave forward thinking here.
We need some brave forward thinking here.
Oh well if it makes jobs anything goes. Let’s open a slave market, must be jobs in that too. That is how the future will look back on fossil fuel rapers of the earth for money. As we look back at slave trading.
Does this mean that we'll look back at Extinction Rebellion and other activists the same way we now look at the louts and vandals and woke half-wits that daubed offensive slogans on the Cenotaph, Churchill's statue and so on?
The sooner this country decides it's own future which it will do and with far greater "green credentials" than most other Western nations the better. We should not be dictated to by silly little girls who don't even live here. If Saint Greta wants to make a real change to the world's environment, go and preach to the Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, Americans etc etc.
Get the population down.
Exit overstayers, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, criminals etc etc
Quite a few million there.
Government has the majority to force through legislation to change the laws to easily facilitate removal especially in conjunction with UN. Removed
Exit overstayers, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, criminals etc etc
Quite a few million there.
Government has the majority to force through legislation to change the laws to easily facilitate removal especially in conjunction with UN. Removed
This abdication of national and global responsibility, leaning into Trumpism and our post-Brexit splendid but vulnerable isolation, ducking out of EU and global-trading inter-dependence in advance of a raw-materials squeeze in a world still headed into runaway eco-catastrophe, comes just 9-days before ICSPL consultation closure: our blindness resolute on lack of Lord Nolan's 'selfless integrity'.
And killing a few million more worldwide with the extra CO2 generated. Haven't you killed enough with Covid?
Those politicians criticising the decision are either doing so to score political points &/or through a failure to check facts or sheer ignorance.
The same applies to all the other detractors, including Thunberg.