Would they allow the coal to be delivered by horse and cart, I wonder.

I doubt it could be a danger of the horses fouling the road 🙂

I am 100% behind fossil fuel conservation and the efficient deployment of oil, planning for the management of peak oil, as well as the construction and employment of effective forms of alternative energy (ones who's overall lifecycle is positive).

So far, Al Gore and the IPCC (ferking UN talking shop meddling wasters) have failed to come up with anything more than a whole load of models. You don't get scientific concusions out of computer models, you get them out of data. So far, there is nothing to get excited about, data wise. Model output is NOT DATA!!! It's important to keep an open mind and so far, I'm seeing the whole phenomena of taxes being raised not being spent on viable green projects.

What we are seeing is hysteria to the degree of religious idiocy and a whole bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon, taking the moral high ground in order to preach anti-capitalism. If these twunts actually put equal energy into doing something constructive, they might rise a little over utter mediocrity.

If half of these fools wanted to really influence people, they could get very very well read on the matter, then they may come to an alternative stance.

I've come to a conclusion that coal is firmly our future, given we seem to have ignored the old nuclear programme.

I bumped into a whole bunch of these tossers at uni and it's a mere rebellion before either settling into a job in the city, or becoming a swampy. Stop their giros and then see if they have time for cocking about.

Sorry to moan :curse:

Having looked at the linked "see also" page on the BBC website showing the protestors camp etc. I think a lot of the protestors appear to be more concerned with it being near where they live (NIMBYs) than climate change, and have just used that to try and gain more support!!!

These same local residents complained and had the wind farm stopped, the new local prison, Incinerator for local slaughter house, And also the new Coventa waste incinerator, i think its a case they just dont want work and not on my doorstep, they had the climate camp here a few weeks back, who they welcomed with open arms, but when it comes to the crunch they dont want alternative energy, they had that stopped people have a very short memory when it suites them!

I have just read all of the posts

I think that most miss the essential point in that basically what we have is load of crypto commies now on the 'green' bandwagon who are prepared to travel all over the country to make trouble whether its a new road or a new opencast or whatever.

If foxhunting was still legal the hunt masters could do no better than organise their meets when the great unwashed hold their demonstrations. Years ago I heard a rumour that a certain well known hunt was bunging the National Front to hold a march on the same day as their major hunt meet, a sure guarantee of a quite day.
There was one occasion when this actually happened.

As far as ‘local residents’ go, I suspect a mere handful of these supplemented by activists bussed in from as far away as the north of Scotland.

The whole green issue is an excuse or good reason for everyone except the poor old ordinary sod who has to pay the taxes or stand for ever increasing restrictions on his or her personal transport and liberty.

Years ago I was in the car trade for while and once bought a car from the auction that had just been re-sprayed bright green
Getting it out of the yard I scraped a bit of the paint off, and guess what.
Underneath it was red.

There Stuey, I can have a good rant as well.

Oh, by the way, my good friend ‘the Colonel’, roger what you say, ‘yes to all’.

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Fcuk the protestors, dig it out and burn it so we can stop importing a commodity we have under our feet. :curse:

I will repeat a quote from one of the government ministers I heard on Radio 4 at the time of the miner's strike:-

"We have to reduce our coal production to allow more capacity for foreign imports"

I rest my case!