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UK coal use to fall to lowest level since industrial revolution

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Are there significant political elements who champion dirty energy and deny its effects in the UK like there are in the US?

Yes, but I wouldn't say to the same extent. In terms of energy, it flows very much left to right.

                  Left                         Right
                  Green  Labour  Conservatives  UKIP
  Climate Change    X      X           X
  Renewables        X      X
  Nuclear                  X           X         X
  Fossil Fuels                         X         X

Between the two major parties (Labour and Conservatives) there is widespread support for belief in Climate Change just difference of opinions on how to tackle it.

Not that i've heard from. We import most of our coal [1], so there isn't a big domestic coal industry to fund them.

[1] http://www.coalimp.org.uk/3.html

Good.

Funny, this was the exact status update I used when i shared this on Facebook earlier. I appreciate that our reactions are "Good" rather than "Think of the jobs!", because unfortunatly that has been the tone in the last 30 years and its really very disapointing that we destroy the planet to avoid a less than idea economy.

Interestingly the rhetoric around oil has currently been around jobs because of the fall in oil prices making the North Sea / Brent oil unsustainable. Interestingly when I checked the price of Brent is about the same as it was about 6 years ago but it seems the cost of production has risen substantially in that time. So, while jobs might be at risk in Scotland it was only a matter of time anyway.

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