On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:04:07 +0000 (UTC), "John"
wrote:

Being relatively local to the Selby coalfield and having watched all the
billboards in the area proclaiming "British Coal - one hundred years of
energy!" or similar wording I was amazed to see the mines on this coalfield
shutdown.
Hopefully McGregors ideas of leaving it in the ground until conditions were
right mean that we have a source of UKenergy after others are depleted

Maybe the benefits of coal being mined in the country will be seen
again, long term disruption of the gas import routes might wake
someone up to a the benefits of a diverse energy policy not reliant on
tinpot overseas regimes. I can't ever see the playstation generation
square eyed zombies going underground though. More likely we will end
up something a bit more high tech with controlled underground
burning/gasification.


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