As with everything “green,” the claim that Britain went coal-free from May 17-31 is false. As it turns out, Britain imported coal-fried power from the Netherlands where the CO2 tax is about half.
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No… UK CO2 emissions are not declining despite shuttering coal
We have been peppered this week by the headline, “Britain has first coal-free week in over a century.” This storyline is fake news.
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UK’s first deep coal mine in over 30 years given go-ahead in Cumbria
UK can’t afford new Japanese nukes to replace coal/old nukes — so going for cheap Chinese nukes
What could go wrong? What sane government would risk its national security by allowing the Communist Chinese to build unnecessarily expensive nuke plants, rather than sticking with affordable and reliable coal?
EU climate regulations screw Britain
Higher energy prices killing elderly in UK
Ten years on, UK Climate Change Act is harming the poor
Is the US headed this way, with electric utilities the driver by pointlessly shuttering coal plants? Support BURN MORE COAL. Help us stop this. Happy Thanksgiving.
Read the report, The Climate Change Act at Ten: History’s Most Expensive Virtue Signal.
Case study: UK demonstrates folly of abandoning coal
UK quits coal, but needs baseload to avoid blackouts. So the government subsidizes coal and gas plant operators remain online. But the rentseeking electricity rationing industry objects. An EU court intervenes. What a mess. US utilities, grid operators and utility commissions are walking straight into messes like this by mindlessly abandoning coal.
