"Effective and Efficient!” | UK's Last Coal-Fired Power Station Shuts Down
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Talk's Mike Graham reacts to the UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station shutting down on Monday, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity.
Many of the 170 people employed by the plant's owner 'Uniper' will stay on to help with the two-year decommissioning process.
Mike says: "Families have worked there for generations."
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Total madness enough said 🇬🇧
Every country needs to produce its own steel.
Politicians are beyond dim.
Milliband is an absolute cretin. Labour are walking the UK into a colder, darker future because of their complete obsession with being the 'first' to net-zero, and we'll ALL pay the price for it.
Absolutely criminal
Pray to God we don't go to war we want able to make our steel to defend the country
Pray to God we have people with good grammar in future generations because we appear to be lacking them in this one.
If China invaded the uk then uk would request steel and China would deny that request and basically China would occupy Great Britain 🇬🇧 😢
Who would we want to go to war with?
Our enemies are already here.
Absolute lunacy!
Sad and shocking, the future of the UK is being destroyed.
How is coal the future? I'd lament the loss of our nuclear power industry, not coal.
With power stations gone, and a goverment labour in charge, means disaster for the UK, foot note.. Out side my home the sun is shining it's 8,30am and 4 wind turbines still as a frozen bass.
The irony is that Drax produces more CO2 from the burning of biomass (ie wood, imported from places as far afield as North America) than it would from coal (which can be mined "next door").
This must be the single most stupid idea .import workers and close down industry..😂
Utter madness 😜
Come back Guy Fawkes , all is forgiven . The only useful bloke ever to go in the Houses of Parliament.
So the UK is now dependent on foreign coal , steel, gas and electricity, it sounds like a good idea
The problem is not producing anything here we make no money to buy energy, food and products from abroad. The UK probably to the rest of the world is a basket case example of how not to do it. The grouping of Starmer, Miliband, Lammy and Rayner are hardly the stuff of any inspiration.
Yet we recently overtook France to become the 8th largest manufacturing nation on the planet. 🤔
@@remoanersrknts6736where did you find that statistic as far as I can see Indonesia holds 8th and the UK doesn’t exist in the top 10
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Everywhere!
*""UK overtakes France as eighth largest manufacturer as Badenoch celebrates one year in trade role"*
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Everywhere!
*""UK overtakes France as eighth largest manufacturer as Badenoch celebrates one year in trade role"*
Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade.
11 September, 2023
Britain is at the mercy of external supply for absolutely everything. We import our energy. We import our food. This is suicidal.
Dont despair,......starmers (civil servants) are gradually transferring the entire UK infrastructure to HIS mates in the EU. Remember, eu countries supply virtually ALL uk power/water/food, & they control the amount of illegals we are being swamped with..........UK,..NOT LOOKING GOOD LONG TERM.
That’s what they want.
Yep, correct. Great companies now shipped out to you know where, and where they have gone to is a known potential future adversary. We are screwed.
we import 40% of our food when our crops are out of season or for exotic fruits.
YUP, correct.
Thats why starmer has indicated his desire to rejoin the corrupt eu.
Most of our TASTELESS CONTAMINATED food products come from the eu.
ALL our energy IS controlled by eu countries, & WE CONTINUE to pay the eu £11BILLION every year for eu mep's GOLD PLATED PENSION POTS, THAT ALLOWS THEM ALL TO RETIRE AT 55.This arrangement was part of BREXIT & will carry on until 2064.
While they keep on being opened around the world!
Kiss our energy security goodbye - thanks, Labour!
We’re on a trajectory to poverty
Everything has been sucked out of South Wales by the British government and it has been left a desperately deprived area.
It would make sense to keep it as strategic reserve but no, when 1.5 million new homes kick on their heat pumps the lights will go out!
Utter madness.
STEEL industry KEY to our countrys business & defence . LABOUR give funding to TATA to continue process in INDIA ?? MADNESS and TOTAL INCOMPETANCY
its ok they build one a week in chinai
We are doomed
Morning glory with Mike Graham, what an utterly revolting thought.😱
Did you not know about the DRAX power station,stopped burning coal and converted to wood pellets,but and its a huge but the emissions from burning these pellets cause more pollution,not widely known as it knocks the environmental bollocks out.
Just keep it
Artefact
a sad day for wales, iron making began in a major way in wales in 1766 with the opening of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks in merthyr tydfil, at its hight it employed 100,000 men, I can remember EbbwVale steelworks, growing up in Brynmawr we could see the light from the next valley when they charged the blast furnaces at night, then one day the light had gone, my mother called us out into the back garden and explained to us this was the last time we would see it and it was the end of an era, the plant continued as a tinplate works but its inevitable decline had started, on the first of october 2024, with the ceasing of the PortTalbot blast furnace iron production sees the real end of an era for the whole country, not just wales, we now can't produce enough prime steel to defend our nation if it were required, and with war in europe now more than ever the politics of net zero should be put aside because if a world war happens we will no longer be a nation that can be depended on but a victim state conqured by another.
The British people will never be safe from the stupidity of our politicians
Ed Miliband, what a total burk
Got some amazing drone shots on Friday, looks amazing! Just uploaded to my channel
net zero loonacy !
UK Electricity Prices Highest in the World
New data from the Government shows the UK has the highest industrial and domestic electricity prices of the 28 countries tracked by the IEA.
UK industrial electricity prices at 25.85p/kWh are the highest of the 28 countries covered by the IEA report. UK prices are some four times those in the US, 2.6 times those of Korea and 46% higher than the IEA median. Given that UK gas prices are below the IEA median and those of France and Germany it cannot be gas prices that are driving UK electricity prices so much higher than elsewhere. Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand and Portugal all have industrial electricity prices less than 10p/kWh. We cannot hope to compete in traditional energy intensive industries or industries of the future like making batteries or AI with such extortionate electricity prices.
Another great step towards UK independent energy production, both from other countries and from our own finite resources. Electric arc furnaces for steel are on the rise, which we'll need for, among many things, wind generators.
Is that you Ed? Is this sarcasm or are you genuinely deluded?
Utterly stupid. All the skills lost, increased dependency. Huge mistake. Huge.
@@shelleyphilcox4743 Coal usage in the UK has been dropping massively in the last decade, and has been on just a few % for years. It's a symbolic shift really than a massive change. Maybe go campaign to use more nuclear! That said, I do agree about the concerning low amount of domestic steel production, which has been dropping for decades. Large investments are being made into the electric arc furnaces but AFAIK the hydrogen production isn't there on a large scale? Hopefully the demand for steel in wind turbines will present a viable business case for steel manufacturers.
Dependence on other countries like Russia for steel & oil has been a big issue recently, highlighting the importance of independence. I'm really surprised that the right isn't on board with renewables and long-term improvements over short-term. Intuitively the left and right's positions would be flipped I think! 🙂
If you really love sulphuric acid, Germany's just a swim away
@@Metiistero Dont get me started on the decimation of our nuclear energy industry!
Personally I believe we should be developing our own tech, have diverse sources of energy and in particular, be as independent as possible, including keeping and using reserves and capability with fossil fuels as well as developing 'green' energy.
I truly think closing down our last coal station is a mistake in such un certain times.
You lot are so stuck in the past it’s not even funny!