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**Chris** · 15-04-2025, 11:13

So we now have emergency ship-loads of coking coal and iron ore heading to the UK from the USA and Australia, with some apparently likely to come from Japan as well, and no doubt we paid top-tier prices for it to make sure it doesn’t get diverted anywhere else en route.

I wonder whether Friends of the Earth still think they scored a win by preventing it being mined in Cumbria and delivered to Scunthorpe by train, a mere 300 miles away?

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,281	Re: British Steel bill to save Scunthorpe So we now have emergency ship-loads of coking coal and iron ore heading to the UK from the USA and Australia, with some apparently likely to come from Japan as well, and no doubt we paid top-tier prices for it to make sure it doesn’t get diverted anywhere else en route. I wonder whether Friends of the Earth still think they scored a win by preventing it being mined in Cumbria and delivered to Scunthorpe by train, a mere 300 miles away?