Comments by "" (@thomasherrin6798) on "Sky News"
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The lower transport emissions saving is 20,000 tonnes per year, as well as the mines aim to use carbon offsetting during its lifetime, something that most probably didn't happen as the coal was imported from U.S., Russia and Australia!). We import coal for steel making anyway and to a certain extent will still continue doing so, so it makes no sense not to have a local mine in the U.K. I do understand how coal mines are as my father was a miner and I do not envy the people who are going to work there, it's a dirty job but it does have monetary rewards, most ex mine workers here would have continued working in the mines rather than have the mines closed if they would have been viable, and conditions today will be a lot better than they was then, although the industry improved as time passed in the industrial revolution as it was originally dire. We cannot expect the rest of the world to carry out the dirty bits that we can do ourselves for our stuff (And we do need stuff) and we would most probably do it better for worker health and the climate, so the greens should wrap up and go to the worst polluters and sort them out - Like China!?!
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We import this type of coal normally from Russia for steel making, as we are required to make steel for our own security (Unless we rely on China, but they also will produce steel with more pollution anyway?), it makes sense to not use the Russian stuff and use our own reserves until we have a viable energy policy that can do away with it all together. So, if we didn't open the mine and create British jobs we would be subsidising Russia jobs and their military aims, a win win, nothing to do with the climate here, it's all about U.K. independence, when renewables have sorted the energy storage problem then we can go fully green, but that is some way into the future, it's not happened yet, so stop bleating!?!
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