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Originally Posted by Chris
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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This is the fallacy of net-zero.
Like, saying Drax is renewable by switching the fuel from coal to "bio-mass" wood pellets, shipped across the Atlantic from Canada (using renewable diesel no doubt) and then by train from Liverpool (again using that renewable diesel)
Virtue signalling at a billion dollar scale.