Mining/Fracking - old and new

ValDa replied on 17/12/2015 18:48

ValDa

Posted on 17/12/2015 18:48

Anyone else watching Look North, and been astounded by two news items, one after the other. The first dealt with the closure of the last coal mine in Yorkshire, and the import of coal from overseas to run Drax powerstation. The very next news item was about 'Fracking' in North Yorkshire.

It seems incongruous, that an energy source, with the infrastructure already in place, is being supplanted by a 'prospective' energy source, with new infrastructure needing to be investigated, developed and installed! It appears that shale oil and gas, even with the cost of development and new infrastructure, will be cheaper than the old coal which is just sitting underground, with a team of redundant miners who are more than willing to continue.

How can this be?

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JVB66 replied on 19/12/2015 19:42

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Posted on 19/12/2015 19:42

I can remember when north sea gas was first brought ashore and the gov of the time said that it would be for domestic use only,when all the gas works were closed,and it is now the thing that will give us electricity with more gas fired power stations to be built ,to compensate for the run down of all coal fired power stations so coal imports should cease soon?.

By then we will be beholden to the French and Chinese for nuclear power?so why do we need fracking?

David2115 replied on 20/12/2015 18:43

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Posted on 20/12/2015 18:43

How odd that a discussion on issues surrounding the arming of the police is closed because it may be controversial but a discussion on fracking/ coal mining is allowed to continue.

im not saying th should be closed but it goes to show that if a topic is allowed to run it can produce a sensible discussion

brue replied on 20/12/2015 19:00

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Posted on 20/12/2015 19:00

Hmm well I didn't exactly get a friendly reply to my comments on here and I went to school in a mining community.

In the past sadly many of these type of threads have over heated which is why most of us stick to the guidelines.

David2115 replied on 20/12/2015 19:22

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Posted on 20/12/2015 19:22

Yep that's my point. Why could that not be the same on issue of police firearms.

Maybe a thread on fox hunting would be a good discussion

Molly Domino replied on 20/12/2015 19:33

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Posted on 20/12/2015 19:33

Did say I wouldn't post in this thread again but, Bru i hope you didn't take my posts as unfriendly they weren't meant to be, all I was trying to do was pass on my experiences. If you found them unfriendly I apologise.