A case of carrying coals to Newcastle?

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Is this just ridiculous when a product sourced locally cannot be used locally but has to be imported from Russia?A case of carrying coals to Newcastle?
That's nothing, I see a train load of coal coming out of Liverpool docks every evening supplying a power station built in the middle of a coal field.





This imported coal is from South America and is nothing more than dust, is mined by children, and the farmers near the power station complain that their crops are now ruined by the crap the power stations are now belching out.





The British mines were closed because they were 'Uneconomic', (not surprising when you have to employ working men instead of child labour) so now we import shiploads of sulphurous coal, mined by children, to feed power stations built on seams of nearly smokeless coal.





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Shambles 'Uneconomic' was a euphemism for retributionA case of carrying coals to Newcastle?
Your problem and Corneilius's problem is that you talk with too much common sense I'm afraid, that is not allowed in Britain today, but I can well understand your frustration.





Nearly half of Britain is built on top of the bloody stuff, yet can we mine more of it to help reduce unemployment IN Britain, NO.


Is it a case of too much power returning back to the working class, because if so then its also a case cutting off your nose to spite your face





Madness, utter Madness.
I'm quite sure there must be 'green' issues in all of this. Firstly the locals didn't want this development for green issues and road nuisance but now this coal from Russia is causing green issues with a major carbon footprint! Why don't they just buy the coal from a local depot?
absolutely dumbfounding !


We have one of the world's largest salt mines in Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and some of the salt in our supermarkets comes from the USA and we import road salt.


So much for supporting one's local economy and common sense.
Why aye, man! Feel a Thatcher joke coming on...but to be serious, despite us still having a great mass of coal under our feet, the moronic unions of the seventies made life not only hard from northerners in mining, but for others also. This was on the cards.
Actually that open caste mine was strongly resisted by local people.





Merthyr has got an image of heavy industry but nothing could be further from the truth now a days.
Preposterous...


Another Thatcher legacy.
There i was thinking i had seen it all,Then this pops up.(Shakes head in despair).