The UK’s last coal-fired power station has closed. The plant in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, finished operations on Monday after running since 1967 . The closure ends the country’s 142-year reliance on coal.
Coal, but not fossil fuels.
Indeed but one step at a time, after 142 years its a small bit of progress.
About twenty years ago, the environmental artist, David Haley https://davidhaley.uk/ produced a similar map, but overlaid it with one of all the main UK power networks and communication routes, which not too surprisingly, mainly run through low-lying areas.
For many years the Chinese have shown more interest in his work than have official UK planning authorities…
George Monbiot always gets to the heart of the matter.
CCS & Green Hydrogen are NOT an answer to the need to decarbonise.
Hopefully this originally Tory policy will get reined in before a lot of money & time is wasted.
Anyone gullible enough to get taken in the carbon capture bs should be in a padded cell somewhere. Green hydrogen oh have we not moved on???
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