The UK’s last coal-fired power station has closed. The plant in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, finished operations on Monday after running since 1967 . The closure ends the country’s 142-year reliance on coal.
Coal, but not fossil fuels.
Indeed but one step at a time, after 142 years its a small bit of progress.
About twenty years ago, the environmental artist, David Haley https://davidhaley.uk/ produced a similar map, but overlaid it with one of all the main UK power networks and communication routes, which not too surprisingly, mainly run through low-lying areas.
For many years the Chinese have shown more interest in his work than have official UK planning authorities…
George Monbiot always gets to the heart of the matter.
CCS & Green Hydrogen are NOT an answer to the need to decarbonise.
Hopefully this originally Tory policy will get reined in before a lot of money & time is wasted.
Anyone gullible enough to get taken in the carbon capture bs should be in a padded cell somewhere. Green hydrogen oh have we not moved on???
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More very worrying information.
The clincher is at the end of the piece…
A follow on to that article
Make my drive to beach quite quick 
There is always a positive!
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I’d have the sea lapping at the bottom of the garden.
Its telling me that you’re waking up far too early on a Sunday morning 
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And likely also this is related to content you previously viewed.
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It depends on the infosphere you live in. (learned a new word this morning 
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While we here in France, or those reading n Spain or other parts of Europe, feel that events in US may less affect us, it may be best to know it is one world and although we will feel the symptoms of burning fossil fuel, we cannot control the causes.
With Ready Orders and an Energy Czar, Trump Plots Pivot to Fossil Fuels
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for climate and the environment is considering relocating the E.P.A. out of Washington and other drastic changes.
David Bernhardt, who was the interior secretary during the first Trump administration, is playing a lead role in the transition team’s energy and environment agenda.Credit…Al Drago for The New York Times
By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman
- Nov. 8, 2024
As President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies charged with protecting the nation’s air, water, climate and public lands, according to six people familiar with the matter.
The task is familiar to David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist who headed the Interior Department in the first Trump administration, and Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who ran the Environmental Protection Agency. Both are Washington insiders who have years of experience in dismantling federal environmental protections.
People working on the transition have already prepared a slate of executive orders and presidential proclamations on climate and energy. They include withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, eliminating every office in every agency working to end the pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities and shrinking the size of national monuments in the West to allow more drilling and mining on public lands.
President Biden has made environmental justice a top priority and has sought to ensure that underserved communities benefit from at least 40 percent of clean energy development. That initiative will be scrapped, people familiar with the plan said. The move will be part of a greater effort to dismantle what Mr. Trump’s allies view as the “woke” agenda and any programs that do not help improve the economy.
The boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah will be immediately redrawn to reflect changes that Mr. Trump made in 2017, when he opened hundreds of thousands of acres of land considered sacred to several Native tribes to mining and other development. Mr. Biden expanded the protected areas in 2021.
Mr. Trump is also expected to move swiftly to end the Biden administration’s pause on permitting new natural gas export terminals, and to revoke a longstanding waiver that allows California and other states to set tighter pollution standards than the federal government.
Mr. Trump also intends to install an “energy czar” in the White House to coordinate policies across agencies in an effort to cut regulations and make it easier to ramp up production of oil, gas and coal.
Some people on the transition team are discussing moving the E.P.A. headquarters and its 7,000 workers out of Washington, D.C., according to multiple people involved in the discussions who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to talk about the transition.
The “energy czar” job description is reminiscent of the White House Energy Task Force overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney during the George W. Bush administration, aimed at ensuring that fossil fuels would remain the United States’ primary energy resources for “years down the road” and that the federal government’s energy strategy would mainly aim to increase supply of fossil fuels, rather than limit demand.
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Gov. Doug Burgum, Republican of North Dakota, emerged as a key adviser on energy issues in Mr. Trump’s campaign and could be a candidate for the role of energy czar.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
At the United Nations climate talks last year, the United States and nearly every other country agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, the burning of which is driving climate change.
One possible candidate for the role of energy czar is Gov. Doug Burgum, Republican of North Dakota, who briefly ran for his party’s nomination for president last year before dropping out to endorse Mr. Trump.
Governor Burgum emerged as a key adviser on energy issues to Mr. Trump’s campaign, acting as a liaison between Mr. Trump and the oil billionaires who helped to fund his presidential bid.
Another potential candidate is Dan Brouillette, a former automobile industry lobbyist who served as energy secretary in the first Trump administration.
Why would not the developing world look at this and say America has no problems with burning fossil fuels, pass the matches.
We bought our spa and started using it in mid March. Last night we enjoyed our last one of the season. Crazy, 2nd week of November!!! It was enjoyable but worrying at the same time that we could be in an outdoor spa for 8 months!!!
Winter defintately on its way!!!
Oh the other thing, due to the coming plumetting temps I finally got out the suitcases and swapped summer for winter clothes today. Latest ever date.
I’m still wearing shorts 
Not lit the wood burner or the pellet stove since March.