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Originally Posted by Moldova
The is millions of tonnes of coal left in all the old mining areas where the mines where closed and deliberately sealed with rubble and concrete to make them not cost effective to reopen and all the surface buildings demolished in most cases.
This has led to us importing the vast majority of the coal we use when we could still be self sufficient.
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Our mines weren't cost effective first time round so it's a bit rich to suggest the concrete seals are all that would prevent them making money in the future.
Planet Earth is better off without our mines being open anyway. Funny how we don't hear so much about acid rain these days. I hear the Nordic countries are a lot less ambivalent towards us now we're not exporting quite so much forest-killing sulphuric acid in their direction.
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Originally Posted by injuneer
I thought the French were already earmarked to build these?
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Let's hope so. While this country has spent decades in hoc to those who think progress is defined by rediscovering the horse and cart, France has forged ahead with its nuclear programme and has become rather good at it. We use quite a lot of nuclear-generated French electricity already.