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good morning my FG freinds

just for a change not a story off the peg but from the pen of your very own AA grumpy.

so here goes.....

did anyone catch the panorama programme last light about open cast coal mining ?

this is tearing up green field sites hedgrows and woodland extracting the coal causing dust noise and mayhem then after 5 years restoring the site back to fields.

even if the county council rejects the plan and refuses planning permission it is overturned by the government and energy office in whitehall so opencasting goes ahead.

in a remarkable u turn by the government they have now realised that we need to use more coal as other reserves dwindle and most of our coal is imported from poland ,russia, and austraila but they have also realised that they must also have clean coal technology which involve plants to capture the emissions and prevent greenhouse gasses.

AAG

u turn or short sighted realiseation the conservative government decemated the coal industry in 1980s.

i stood and joined in the protests and listened to arthur scargill yet thatcher put 1million aside to fight the n.u.m and won yet arthur said we were not beaten.

thatcher sent out the bully boy police who charged the peacefull lines on horseback like the light infrantry the same filth who removed their numbers so they could not be identified most sent up from the south.

it could have been a blood bath as most of the time the miners outnumbered the police but it was scargill who kept them in check and appealed for calm.

i,ve seen whole communities torn apart crime up men out of work after the pit closures now they are talking of opencasting and reopening of what few mines we have left.

it wont bring back the jobs it used to those days have gone forever but what of the future could we see museums like caphouse pit turned back into working collieries?

and what of the cost to reopen former deep mines is it viable i think how they intend to do this according to panorama is to opencast on some former deep mine sites making the old workings safe and extend existing pit workings into closed

former deep mines and extract the coal that way.

as arthur scargill said during the strike WE CAN SELL EVERY COBBLE OF COAL WE PRODUCE.

pantoandy;1074692 wrote: good morning my FG freinds

just for a change not a story off the peg but from the pen of your very own AA grumpy.

so here goes.....

did anyone catch the panorama programme last light about open cast coal mining ?

this is tearing up green field sites hedgrows and woodland extracting the coal causing dust noise and mayhem then after 5 years restoring the site back to fields.

even if the county council rejects the plan and refuses planning permission it is overturned by the government and energy office in whitehall so opencasting goes ahead.

in a remarkable u turn by the government they have now realised that we need to use more coal as other reserves dwindle and most of our coal is imported from poland ,russia, and austraila but they have also realised that they must also have clean coal technology which involve plants to capture the emissions and prevent greenhouse gasses.

AAG

u turn or short sighted realiseation the conservative government decemated the coal industry in 1980s.

i stood and joined in the protests and listened to arthur scargill yet thatcher put 1million aside to fight the n.u.m and won yet arthur said we were not beaten.

thatcher sent out the bully boy police who charged the peacefull lines on horseback like the light infrantry the same filth who removed their numbers so they could not be identified most sent up from the south.

it could have been a blood bath as most of the time the miners outnumbered the police but it was scargill who kept them in check and appealed for calm.

i,ve seen whole communities torn apart crime up men out of work after the pit closures now they are talking of opencasting and reopening of what few mines we have left.

it wont bring back the jobs it used to those days have gone forever but what of the future could we see museums like caphouse pit turned back into working collieries?

and what of the cost to reopen former deep mines is it viable i think how they intend to do this according to panorama is to opencast on some former deep mine sites making the old workings safe and extend existing pit workings into closed

former deep mines and extract the coal that way.

as arthur scargill said during the strike WE CAN SELL EVERY COBBLE OF COAL WE PRODUCE.


While you're at it don'y forget it was Maggie that insisted on switching all new power stations to north sea gas despite all those who pointed out we only had twenty years or so supply before we would be dependant on foreign imports.

Well we are now here twenty or so years later and it's all coming home to roost. Yet people still miss the bitch and think she was good for britain. Mind you I think Tony might steal her claim to be one of the most destructive prime ministers in British history with Gordon Brown nipping at their heels.