Coal Mine reopens in the UK

[Uwila]

So, who thinks this is a good/bad thing?

Is UK Coal Mining on the UP

good, stupid to close them in the first place

pity the poor bastards who have to work in it. My cousin's husband is disabled with pneumoconiosis from the dust. My grandfather broke his back when the roof fell on him. Awful place to work.

Was actually thinking more along the lines of the pollution around the power plants who use coal as fuel. This is of course happening because petrol has become so expensive that coal is once again financially viable. But, it is very dirty. Dirty ti mine. Dirty to burn. I'd like to know if the power plant who are going to use this as feed are goint to implemant any CCT (Clean Coal Technology) standards. I doubt it.

Coal fired powerstations have killed far more people than nuclear (not that I am arguing the case for nucler you understand), but because they were miners no-one really cared....oh and the 100 or so people that got flattened in Aberfan, most of them children.Did you know that the coal board took money from the Aberfan disaster fund to make the tip safe? Nice.

maybe not so good then

I grew up in what was once a mining area. Now it is an unemplyment area. Neither is good, but at least the rivers are clean now and you can hang out the washing without it getting covered in dust and muck. Whenever it raised there would be waste coal in our streen. I was 4 when the Aberfan disaster happened and over a hundrad children, a little older than me were killed when a slurry tip wiped out their school. I remember the horror of it happeneing, I was so scared it would happen to us that I would hide under the stairs. My father went to help to dig out the victims. He never spoke about what he saw.

I have never understood the nostalgia for the coal trade. I can understand that peolpe want jobs, but I should hate for my children to go into mining. I've seen what it can do

If nuclear energy killed 1% as many as coal every reactor on the planed would be shut down the next day.

Unlike martianbishop I am arguing for nuclear though.
The "nostalgia" for coal does rather correlate with political alignment. The miners were monstrously selfish to a degree that would make the average crack dealer wince. I still have the scars.
Fortunately they were also stupid, hence their (initially) blind following of Scargill.