It ain't in this solar system that's for sure.


There is one simple remedy, tell the EU and the LCP diktat to bugger off - and at the same time inform Brussels that we are binning the green agenda.

But that would be in another world - Tories would rather cut off their noses, than spite the EU.

Actually, it ain't that easy. Having made the decision not to upgrade on desulphurisation, the operators have been thrashing their plant while doing only running maintenance ... effectively running the plant into the ground. For them now to continue running, they would all need substantial investment in refits, with a long period of closure. Chances are that this would not be economic.

"Economic" for whom?

A shut down for coal = shut down of British industry and manufacturing.

Yes indeed, they [power utilities] have been thrashing the generators and combustion chambers to death but surely some of it is salvageable and in the end run, is it not better to refit or rebuild on present locations with all resources available - the water/road/rail/transmission infrastructure is all in place - surely that makes economic sense.

Nuclear is not going to happen but coal and gas can and [gas used as heating - directly into houses] should be the future.

Economic, as in it would be more cost-effective to build new plant.

spot on.

We have been leading the way on this since Houghton got his sticky little fingers all over the IPCC in 1988.

Actually, our 'leading the way on this' makes the charge of the light brigade look like a carefully measured advance.

The government of the UK has a legally binding obligation to reduce our CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 and the so-called 'independent' bodies set up to oversee this are stuffed to the gunwales with the worst kind of eco-fascist.

This is a slow march to economic oblivion which is approaching the point where it becomes irreversible.

This is the point of the Climate Change Act, not an unfortunate by-product and for as long as it remains unrepealed, every word this government spouts about resolving the country's malaise is a lie and every action they take is a fraud.

I often have occasion to ask my greentard/uneducated 'friends' three very simple questions: -

1. Name all the countries in the world whose governments have a legal obligation to reduce their country's CO2 emissions by 80%

2. What effect will reducing the UK emissions of CO2 by 80% have on global temperature (if that was indeed measurable and you accept the CAGW argument)?

3. From whence was the target for an 80% reduction in CO2 derived?

Not difficult to imagine the response . . .

Isn't that just what I intimated? Build new plant on existing sites - more cost effective, though most coal is imported perhaps new build would have to be coastal plant.


Any road, it is arguing over spilt milk - the current loonies running the show are so wired in to the green lunacy - Britain is going into stand by and beyond that blank out and very soon.


Welcome to the dark ages.

Literally!