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Thread #127593   Message #4060777
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
22-Jun-20 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: BBC Radio 2 Ballad of the Miners Strike
Subject: RE: BBC Radio 2 Ballad of the Miners Strike
"Great Britain's record coal-free run is over."

Crumbly, the point I was making is that coal, the real enemy, is being steadily defeated, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is relying less and less on fossil fuel.

There is good progress towards renewable fuel in Scotland, I'm sure, but the thermal power stations - whether coal-fired or nuclear - have been closed independently of the Scottish Parliament. The SNP, of course, campaigned for Scotland to be an independent state whose wealth would be founded on the extraction of oil from the North Sea.

For the record, renewable capacity at the end of 2019 was; England 30.1GW, Scotland 11.8GW.