UK Government to make a decision on opening Britain's first coal-mine in 30 years | Paul Hawkins

[@bbouchan1]

Good! open the damn thing & lets get back to normality.

[@janetcryer887]

Why are we paying to buy what we have already here. Why should we buy fuel from other countries, pay for it to be transported here, when we have enough fuel of our own. It is time to call out the hypocrites who say we can buy fuel from other countries but not use our own. These people are completely against out country's security. I wonder who pays them. Is it a foreign power?

[@andywilliams949]

It's called British government They screw everything up

[@geoffhunter7704]

WEF Puppets mostly Janet and Starmer met paedophile Bill Gates at his office last week no transcript available👿💀👿💀👿💀

[@blastithenry]

If I remember correctly Janet, wasn't the imported coal also inferior to our own. It was... er... a few years ago, but I am sure I remember reading that?

[@philiprufus4427]

@@blastithenry Some of it is more sulpherous,in fact most of it,none of it would have heen used on the railways or on ships when I was a kid in the late fifties or sixties.

[@sambra1979]

It was something to do with unions demanding ever increasing wages, holding the country to ransom with constant strikes and making it far cheaper and more reliable to have the coal imported from elsewhere. I'm sure more than just the unions are to blaim but when you look at their actions in retrospect it seems obvious this is why they all closed down.

[@rickshaw2779]

Greta and the Greens aren't going to like this. Sounds like common sense to me.

[@luisbustamante9869]

All done to give Greta a black eye, yes? Any attempt to have some concern for the Earth goes against the interest of the corporations and the very rich. They hire (for free) a lot of people who should know better to wage their war. Tools.

[@jimtaylor294]

*Good~ Gooood~*

[@ianb9103]

Common sense does not apply to the greenies

[@marialanchester8180]

They need to its right under our feet I hope common sense prevails, we’ll see if not DEMAND IT

[@janedoh123]

greta annoyed me when she was wagging school now she has acquired 1 million pounds she’s wants to pay her student loan back

[@CJMVector321190]

Our Coal is also of good quality so instead of using worse quality coal from abroad where you have to burn more for the same calorific output and added nasties as less pure. Plus they never add in the climate impact of shipping all this across oceans. Like that is a free way to transport things.

[@S-North]

Imagine sitting on all that coal and not doing anything with it. Crazy.

[@rogerdodger1790]

Imagine locking down for 2 years and the economy increasing 🤣...yeah inflation, all Russias fault 😀

[@mohamad4609]

Imagine sitting on oil and coal ton's and we're paying other countries to ship it to us at stupid prices, how's that helping so called climate change,, clown world 🤡🌎

[@cavendish009]

We have FOUR HUNDRED YEAR'S worth of coal beneath our feet in Britain - it is lunacy that we do not use it to keep us warm and our economy going.

[@billysmith6284]

In the USA we have enough coal to last a 1000 years .. just sitting there.. it’s NOT about saving the fukin planet.. it’s all about murdering or enslave the serfs.. diabolical..

[@S-North]

@@billysmith6284 100% correct!

[@daviddavidk2352]

Common sense has to prevail over the net zero rhetoric or we are finished

[@sambra1979]

The wef have infiltrated our and others governments, which is why this is being pushed. The companies that are members directly benefit from their agenda. The guise is net zero, in reality its just a way of getting rid of any industry that isn't a member of the wef with the eventual goal of them owning everything while we own nothing and are happy. The totalitarian orwellian nightmare is on its way and our politicians are helping the wef achieve this.

[@daviddavidk2352]

@@sambra1979 unfortunately I tend to agree and unless something drastic happens this country will cease to exist. Too many shortsighted people with so called beneficial ideas and no realistic way of paying for them.

[@jasonking1284]

Fuck NET ZERO. It's a stupid fantasy....

[@daviddavidk2352]

@@jasonking1284 it’s a scam

[@jasonlewis9469]

My father would underground for 30 years and after the mines closed he said that he believed that the mines would re-open in his lifetime looks like he may be correct.

[@davidreynolds2183]

I also said this while Thatcher was closing mines. It was political and instrumental to the ever widening gap between rich and poor.

[@johnbellamy6449]

I hope he is right .I am now 73 and was a Coal Face fitter after doing an apprenticeship. I wouldnt change a thing and the miners were the best men I ever worked with. I have great memories from the 1960 s.

[@feydespiel.]

Let's bloody hope so....these green activists have their heads in the clouds of isn't the world beautiful....yes its beautiful ...but if we're all freezing then it's not so fkn beautiful......going green might save some of the environment..but eventually it will cost us our modern world..

[@S-North]

I get the impression that the little imposter PM fella is going to do everything he can to put the kybosh on it.

[@kirstenrichards8558]

Given Our current situation, he would be a fkng fool to stop this. It's not like there are ten mines opening, it is one, whIch we desperately need.

[@physiocrat7143]

@@kirstenrichards8558 He has a first class honours degree in PPE from Oxford.

[@astronomyphilly]

So they ban Fracking and open a coal mine. Yeh. Open the lot, now, without question

[@rogerdodger1790]

Just include the fraking as well

[@stephen3654]

@@rogerdodger1790 only near your house

[@markrainford1219]

Why ban fracking? Energy wise, this country is in the shit!

[@steveatkinson689]

@@stephen3654 Drop a fracking well in my back garden if they like !!

[@astronomyphilly]

@@markrainford1219 I was reiterating the government position and the ludicrous situation we are in. As a 15 year Geologist in many drill sites they need to open the lot, ok everything right now.

[@maureencope2752]

There are estimated 300 years worth of coal under Derby Notts York's coal fields

[@judewestburner]

That we currently know about

[@elainesanders5450]

The whole situation smacks of insanity . Britain contributes very little to the pollution of the the planet.. meanwhile people are probably going to die of hypothermia as they are afraid to heat their homes ..

[@philiprufus4427]

Watched Thatchers Droogs Shut every coal mine in the country. In Scotland they closedall our pits and used a state of the art port for iron ore built in the early 70s to import coal from abroad. Now ihat Port All Steelwotks,Mines and Power Stations have become. ' Development Oportunities' The Scots like The English and Welsh,Get to Freeze in the Dark !

[@Viator19]

@@philiprufus4427 Could be forgiven for thinking that all this climate insanity has been planned decades in advance.

[@GromDarkwater]

Best part is you can turn coal to oil so we could be oil self sufficient at the same time.

[@mrmick4757]

Yes open it up and many others! At least another to feed Drax and West Burton, lets get energy security!

[@geoffhunter7704]

Thanks to Tories,Liebour and the Libdimwits our excess power generating capacity is down from 17.5% to 3.00% this why we have warnings of Power Cuts this Winter!☹☹☹

[@sambra1979]

The unions took energy security away by holding the country to ransom with endless strikes! It became much cheaper to get the coal shipped in from abroad and without the possibility of strike action making the lights go off. I agree these mines should be reopened but unless the unions are stopped won't history just repeat itself?

[@raijinenel3116]

If only we had such men these days...

[@rogerdodger1790]

Plenty of em kid. Come up to the North and you'll see

[@JJHurst]

We do, give them somewhere to work and you'll see them.

[@Greendoor123]

I work underground at wales’ last underground colliery and the UK definitely still has the men!

[@Natalie-qu2ue]

We had the government close all the pits it wasn't a choice the men made whole communities lost, families didn't have money to spend shops and business stut everywhere

[@blastithenry]

It wasn't the coal they didn't want, it was the coal miners. Anyone capable of independent thought are still not wanted in Great Britain today. Internet communication will soon expose them all. I wonder what will happen then?

[@kirstenrichards8558]

Environmental concerns aside, we need it, no question about it, so I hope the government ignores the eco pressures.

[@halley4032]

Prepare for another subsidiary of Extinction Rebellion, we already have Stop Oil, later .... Stop Coal !! 🤣

[@1aberbeeg]

If the eco mob object cut off their energy supplies so the rest of us don't freeze or go broke, their choice if they're that damn concerned.

[@michaelheadley2041]

We need energy independence, this will be a start

[@mybrotherkeeper1484]

In America we had a chance to work on clean coal technologies, but of course environmentalist threw a fit. They stood in the way of progress in technology, even though they are for research and development for wind and solar. They are only concerned about research and development where it fits their political objectives-making everyone poor so they can be easily controlled.

[@si4632]

When do they ever ignore eco pressures

[@maggiemay6625]

please god we need it👍🇬🇧

[@mrcat5992]

selfish woman wants us all to live off windmills and power crystals.

[@raydavison2972]

We import coal yet are still sitting on vast reserves of our own, the same with gas, the same with oil, it's absolute madness! Most of these people that protest the opposite have lived a good life built on the very thing they want to ban and leave their children to suffer a life of hardship.

[@pemj7360]

Yep can thank Maggie and Co for that one

[@sambra1979]

You can thank the wef. They are the ones pushing all this net zero bs. They have infiltrated many governments and they don't care about the environment or the population, their only goal is authoritarian control with themselves at the helm.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

@@pemj7360 Probably the only mistake she made.

[@pemj7360]

@@Robert-cu9bm let's not forget poll tax

[@margaretsawbridge4879]

@@pemj7360 I think you’ll find Harold Wilson closed more.

[@tonyalways7174]

OMFG we might be on the verge of doing something sensible. I never thought I’d see that again!!!

[@adrianrouse5148]

While importing coal mining our own is a no brainer. Cleaner. Cheaper. And another step to self sufficientcy

[@paulhank7967]

Open it. We need to self sufficient.

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

I'm for having a clean, nice environment BUT I acknowledge the priority that people need energy, jobs and food above all else if things become to tight that we can no longer ignore other options. I really don't think the diehard greens are seeing the current picture, not everyone is in a position to suffer for their ideals

[@vortigerncelticrock3100]

It is to be hoped that it goes ahead and that it is the first of many.

[@luisbustamante9869]

It is to be hoped that the Tories lift the ban on on-shore windmills. Lots cheaper, more sensible and less toxic. They are banned because the rich don't want to see them from their back gardens when they are having their evening drinks.

[@michaelgoulding6609]

​@@luisbustamante9869 i,m not rich, but i don,t want to see ugly wind turbine,s either, i would much rather see a working coal mine, that is providing work for 100s of people & 'also providing a massive boost for the local econemy, than look at a load of useless ugly wind turbines, ruining the look of the countryside

[@luisbustamante9869]

@@michaelgoulding6609 Did you ever complain about cooling towers or high-rise car parks? There's been a MSM campaign to demonise wind technology and a lot of people fell for it even if they don't have one windmill in sight. People didn't complain either when Thatcher waged an all-out war against the miners and their families. They've become the unacknowledged victims of angry capitalism.

[@rontaylor995]

Brilliant get it open .

[@paulslater9061]

You're right it is desperate to get some common sense back into the equation

[@krisjones3359]

I tend to never listen to people with Pink Hair, just one of my rules 🤣👍

[@rogerdodger1790]

Weird isn't it. The obviously middle class hippie woman has a different opinion about green matters than the working class? I wonder why? I winder if it's because she has a cushy job somewhere on plenty of money and isn't in an way affected by this? Dare I say she will be some 'expert' in this or that who's output isn't measured at all.

[@geoffhunter7704]

The woman is obviously a Green Party voter and you are right an hippy middleclass who is unable to put together an cogent argument too!🤐🤑😔

[@luisbustamante9869]

It's sad that only middle class people have some concern for the future of the earth while a lot of working class people who comment on this channel cannot even think by themselves and just parrot what the very rich tell them to say.

[@medler2110]

@@luisbustamante9869 That would be the same middle class people who jet off to exotic foreign holidays, plus the odd European weekend break, new cars every few years, whose emissions during production far out way the emission of somebody driving average mileage in a 10 year old car, buy the latest techno gadgets made in China, a country producing far emissions than the UK. Yes the middle class talk a good talk on concern for the future, sadly their actions don't seem to back this up. (PS this is a massive generalisation, but then so is saying only middle class people care for the environment)

[@DS-od1kb]

@@luisbustamante9869 I am working class and working class people by their very nature are 'Conservative' with a small c. Very few are genuinely socialist or Liberal. They often oppose immigration and support right wing views on law and order while expecting the workers rights and almost worshipping the free at the point of entry NHS to be safe in tory or UKIP hands. There isn't a party that represents such views but the media has somehow convinced them that Farage, Sunak, Rees-Mogg etc have their best interests at heart and Corbyn is almost the anti Christ.

[@luisbustamante9869]

@@medler2110 No. Definitely not. What you are describing is the oligarch class who finance channels like this to brainwash people who will in the end jump by instinct in defense of every initiative these oligarchs take to increase their wealth. I'm afraid it looks as if they've recruited you too.

[@sturmhalo]

I love how the wind turbines in the background aren't turning. People like that activist are happy enough to ignore that we rely on a certain amount of imported fossil fuels as long as they can maintain telling themselves the green mantra. I wonder whether they will be able to keep up that lie in 12 months time when we might be facing extended blackouts and loss of services across the board.

[@terryjones6504]

About bloody time, we need to be self sufficient asap to include mining and fracking. Sending cargo ships across oceans at 10 metres per gallon of diesel is hardly green.

[@sambra1979]

But the people pushing this net zero bs "the wef" have companies as members that profit directly from the actions of net zero. For some reason the media hasn't made the connection but anyone doing their own research has.

[@AngelShona1]

Mining . Please not fraking !! My brother worked at kersley colliery years ago. He loved it. Great comerardery. X

[@terryjones6504]

@@AngelShona1 Modern fracking isn’t what it used to be. I think we need all the help we can get for the next ten years. Keresley was a great colliery with real people, I was born in Allesley.

[@davidgosling2381]

Wont happen while we've got a puppet P.M in charge, he dances to someone else's tune.

[@wellwhatthen10101]

Yes that's true he is league with Goldman's sachs he would sell this country down the drain. Any notice that advertising on main stream TV pushing Credit cards for children now Big brother now spying on what your children are buying --cksake

[@madmaxmckinnes5862]

Yes - get those damn mines re-opened, and stop all this bloody green nonsense.

[@danharrodian]

She repeats Caroline Lucas' talking points calling it "dirty" work. Yes, working under the ground is dirty but say this with such contempt for these men and the area. The class war never really went away. It simply reshaped itself into something called green activism.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

Meanwhile she's never worked a day in her life.

[@Cat10980]

Perhaps it was or is dirty work. But many, like my father, were proud to do it.

[@Ashtarot77]

I'm female and work a desk job. I don't mind one bit getting my hands dirty. I love it in fact.

[@edf6607]

in the interest of equity, 50% of the mining jobs should be reserved for women

[@lesigh1749]

@@edf6607 I favor mandatory mining duty for university graduates. Especially ones with degree course titles that end in the word "Studies".

[@CCHRacing]

Amazing. I hope it opens soon.

[@markrainford1219]

The Welsh should have their own coking coal mine, even greener.

[@whitecompany18]

Bring back British steel and the looms too 👍

[@redacted629]

And public flogging.

[@johnbellamy6449]

lets make sure British Steel is British next time ,not owned by India eg, TATA . this country would sell its granny.

[@bluegtturbo]

And cotton mill too....

[@JJHurst]

If the ultimate goal is " carbon footprint " then this fulfils that imperative, however I suspect that's not the ultimate goal , and Britain being self sufficient in energy doesn't afford the powers that be nearly enough opportunity to tax people and restrict their movements based on ecology and other " green agendas "

[@sambra1979]

The thing missing from your comment is how the wef are implementing this and what their overall goal is. Net zero is just a guise to close everything down they don't own so their own group of companies that are members are the only ones who can operate and they take over. We will own nothing and be happy. That is their goal, while they own everything and are happier. They don't care about the environment anymore than they care about the people they want to control (own)

[@JJHurst]

@@sambra1979 It may have been missing, but it was clearly implied.....

[@elainesanders5450]

I suspect you are right.

[@rolsta2871]

Why would you send 6 year old kids in the Congo to mine for battery ingredients when we have coal.

[@cocos8903]

Who mostly don't make it to their 9th birthday. Tragic.

[@pauldunlop1660]

Because middle class virtue signallers can look the other way and call us racist, while those kids endure modern slavery and death.

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

That what the leftists want. And most Tories are included in that.

[@kirstenrichards8558]

Coincidentally, kids used to work down mines back in the day, in horrific conditions.

[@physiocrat7143]

Green energy is wonderful. December. Zero degrees. No wind. No sun. No power.

[@geoffhunter7704]

Ohhh the Sarcasm!😄😄😄

[@DS-od1kb]

@@geoffhunter7704 Believe it or not. A kipper type once asked me what would happen if the 'engine' on the international space station failed and how would it be repaired? I guess he reads the 'newspaper' with the same name as the 'engine'.

[@steveatkinson689]

GET IT DUG !!!!

[@thomaspaine5601]

''Furnaces that rely on electricity, not coal'' And what does the electricity production rely on? That would be an incredibly inefficient way of doing things.

[@jacobmiller5834]

Imagine how much power an electric steel furnace would use.

[@markbeale7390]

​@Jacob Miller Blast furnace,,uses coke.

[@nannyjak]

I heard something on the radio a while ago that since we stopped our coal mines that we now buy it from Europe for a lot more money!! Crazy

[@davidevans4089]

It could only happen in the UK.

[@Joseph-zf3su]

I can’t believe they actually have to think about it. People are freezing, just use coal.

[@maccagrabme]

Because they are making a fortune via the markets by creating an artificial scarcity.

[@si4632]

And they hope to kill off more pensioners like they did with COVID🤣

[@tanfosbery1153]

Open a few coal mines and coal fire power stations and the energy crisis would be over

[@sambra1979]

But then the wef wouldn't be able to continue their power grab, and with our politicians helping them the agenda is to create an energy crisis.

[@jamesnewing886]

Exactly...it's almost as if they want to have an energy shortage in the uk - I'm beginning to think we might be the carbon they want to get rid of 🤔 Control, demoralise, destroy natural immunity, freeze and starve, seems to be their plan.

[@MartinA-kp8xg]

It must be opened obviously should not have been shut down

[@gedhuffadine1873]

Just a thought, how vulnerable would UK be if we relied on wind turbines and solar fields if we were in conflict with another nation .the infrastructure would be be a sitting duck to drones

[@sambra1979]

So would a conventional power station. Not that I think wind and solar is the answer by any stretch of the imagination but where could a coal fired power plant be built nowadays? Every where suggested would be blocked for one reason or another.

[@johnbellamy6449]

they are all made by China how wise is that . ask these green do gooders.

[@brianstubberfield2116]

Never fear ..our wind powered tanks and solar powered fighter jets along with our gender fluid, trans inclusive non binary Armed forces will protect us. Doh !

[@feydespiel.]

@sambra1979 there's three sites in a 10mile radius from where I live...Ferrybridge 'c' which is now a plant that burns household waste ..instead of landfill...Eggborough....that's been closed for sometime...the cooling towers are gone and most of the boiler and turbine buildings are demolished..but its still a huge site for a modern power station..and Drax...which is still open...using biomass..and coal....all these sites with the correct investment will serve....

[@skadiwarrior2053]

Gail has a very nice traditional Cumbrian accent- ha ha.

[@fmitchell7442]

Love the irony, she’s talking about “green energy” and none of the windmill in the background are moving generating any electricity on what looks to be a windy day

[@geoffhunter7704]

Well spottedbut green energy will save us ,won't it!

[@pauldunlop1660]

Windmills chopping up slow reproducing large birds while being at best an unreliable source of power when they actually do work. THE GREENS ARE THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO THE ENVIROMENT BECAUSE THE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.

[@michaelgoulding6609]

apprently if its too windy, which it often is on the coast, they don,t have the windmills on. cos it burns the motor out. they should be torn down & melted down using woodhouse colliery coal to do it.

[@SimonWallwork]

Open it!

[@karenbarker9474]

What are we waiting for? It should have been opened months ago!!

[@Ineedahandle75]

Absolutely bloody brilliant news. Should never have closed them. Now bring back the steam trains.

[@Ineedahandle75]

Couldn't agree more...as many coal burning, steam chuffing trains as possible.

[@jimtaylor294]

All for this. Makes commercial, strategic & even basic logical sense. That woman who was whining toward the end though... utter muppet XD

[@bobrichards5706]

The greens would have thousands of windmills and solar panels all over that land destroying the local environment. Displacing numerous animal species and all of that wouldn't even make a dent in the power we need to produce, go coal and Nuclear

[@greeneaglz2573]

I am glad they are opening up a new mine.

[@melvynwoodman5787]

Uncle Klaus will make sure via our unelected pm that this never happens unless the general public start to get more vociferous.

[@christinewilson5757]

What are these green, sustainable jobs? They talk about them but never say what they are.

[@andrewstringer5900]

Engineers, installers, manufacturers, fabricators, designers, and retro fitters to name a few, too many to fit in a media soundbite

[@davidreynolds2183]

Fake jobs in fake green industries based on fake climate science.

[@christinewilson5757]

@@andrewstringer5900 Yes but most of the manufacturing is done in China and they also control most of the earth materials that need to be mined.

[@andrewstringer5900]

@@christinewilson5757 the British company the manufactured my heat pump, the British company that designed the heating system, the local company that installed it would hat to think they were “fake” their invoice certainly was real! Come on Britain we lead one industrial revolution why not be the catalyst and beneficiary of leading another?

[@donaldhoult7713]

@@andrewstringer5900 And all these need tools - almost all requiring electricity to power them.

[@christopherward9230]

Every pit I worked at in the 80s was closed and millions of tons of coal left down there, and look what's happening now. SHOCKING 🤬

[@geoffhunter7704]

Plus the mining machinery was left down there too!

[@christopherward9230]

@@geoffhunter7704 Correct Geoff, it was unbelievable what happened and very sad 😔

[@geoffhunter7704]

@@christopherward9230 A total disgrace,Chris!

[@janejones1032]

Love the smell of goal fires

[@ojlbrickwork8092]

When England had English people in it

[@coolperson962]

Surely it's greener to open a mine in the UK than to import it anyway?

[@noka1979]

Get it opened

[@michaelhartshorne6154]

There are still men in this country who know how to mine coal. Engage their services now. They can train young men and save this country from total bankruptcy.

[@paulineclark2743]

Ahh Lord Debens or as we used to know him as John Gummer. Another one suddenly gone green. Lots of money in the green lobby. 😏

[@evansnature1266]

Best days when coal delivered to door.

[@rayboish]

Great stuff let's hope it goes ahead. We need to push towards energy independence. The economics are straight forward, it's all about supply and demand. The demand has outstripped supply recently and hence higher prices. Not just at the petrol pumps because more expensive energy means higher prices across everything. So let's all of us push against this climate activism and madness and secure our future.

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Ex miner told me a couple of years back there was 70 years coal at calverton pit notts still

[@grumpyoldgit8254]

We are sat on around 300 yrs of known coal reserves, catching and harvesting methane will have more payback than preventing carbon emmissions, i dont understand why there is very little if any focus on methane, the meathane from the pit can be reused to run the pit top or other uses

[@oweng7987]

Germany, that bastion of EU progressivism and environmentalism is opening new coal fired power stations, so there’s your benchmark for people who object

[@jetblack6953]

Just incredible listening to the absolute "BILGE" coming out of these "greenies" gobs.

[@ivordavies8800]

Yes. Let's start digging.

[@BFG_10G]

Great news!

[@johnbellamy6449]

green energy my arse. I was a National Coal Board apprentice and the Colliery employed 1100 men . In later years i watched massive coal ships being off loaded at Immingham docks near Grimsby .We need the jobs and the prosperity for the future of this country. it is being strangled by do gooders like that woman. the new modern design looks very impressive also. clean and unobtrusive ,as well as providing the coking coal for steel production .

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

Did anyone else notice the 5 wind turbines in the background (at 4:19) not turning in the breeze...? ...and again, another 7 at 5:28...?

[@pamills66]

Boris Johnson claiming that Margaret Thatcher did good closing down coal mines and how this has improved our climate. Had we kept our mines open, we would have had the best coal in the world and we might have been exporting the black gold. Alas it was not to be, very shortsighted by the then government. Now we’re being made to be more dependent on electricity. Heaven help us if we have a total blackout in a deep mid-winter with nothing to burn.

[@captainbuggernut9565]

This is for coking coal for use in the steel industry. Acceptable in my opinion.

[@phubblewubbphubblewubb]

Thatcher destroyed our mining industry. We should get this moving asap. The work is hard and dirty, dangerous at times but the kindred spirit it brings is something so valuable.

[@garethparr9482]

We were very premature in abolishing the coal industry and now the chickens have come home to roost. Get the pits opened and please let’s use the coal to keep Britain warm and not sell it abroad and give good well paid jobs to British people. O m g I will probably be classed as far right now but just common sense in my opinion

[@braikka]

This is great news. I really hope it goes ahead

[@RawTopShot]

it's been approved by government

[@bernarddavidson9030]

She probably hasn't had a job in her life, get the mine open and let's get working.

[@andrewdaley5480]

Can i apply for a chimney grant of the government. 🇬🇧 👍

[@stansirlmkhope2312]

Don’t listen to middle class hippies

[@thetraveller869]

7pm on the 7th December and it has just been announced that Michael Gove has approved this mine development. Is this the start of Common Sense? I sincerely hope so!

[@trevormather1933]

Now watch the greens kick off!

[@thetraveller869]

@@trevormather1933 After Covid we could all do with a good laugh couldn't we! 😂

[@theuktoday4233]

with at least 500 years reserves of coal underground in the UK why not use it?

[@markspark1864]

They call falling trees in America transporting the timber here turning into wood pulp to burn in our power stations green. Yet mining coal here not green, these people are insane.

[@johnbowkett80]

The North NEEDS well paid work . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sirjosephwhitworth9415]

No wind, no power.... get digging.

[@feydespiel.]

Green dreams are pie in the sky......go green...go back to the stone age.

[@jimodonnell7604]

These tree huggers would have us move back to the stone age if we let them

[@freyjabeth4372]

Providing it's all made safe, it's a great idea !

[@lynndrury1]

lets get all the mining industry open then hopefully the steel industry

[@markbeale7390]

Need it,there's a boom in arms industry ship building.

[@grannye7638]

Just get on with it!!!!

[@auldyin8368]

Purple hair...what a surprise..open the pits.

[@simplyphil.photography164]

One big problem, who is going to teach these new generation of miners, most of the miners would be old age pensioners, or nearing , who's experience would be vital in the running and safety; Possibly we could have coal, coke and town gas once again and hopefully become self sufficient and with new ways in producing. I'm all for it including fracking, bring it on

[@sambra1979]

I'm sure technology has moved on somewhat from the days of guys with picks tapping away. They will operate a machine that does everything. And that machine will come with a manual saying how to operate it.

[@Robert-cu9bm]

You don't really want people who haven't done it for decades teaching. They wouldn't know the modern safety and efficiency protocols.

[@muckle8]

Coal definately but not sure about the fracking - too many horror stories of Undrinkable tap water wherever it’s been tried

[@simplyphil.photography164]

@@Robert-cu9bm there is no new modern and efficiency protocols as there are no trained mining engineer's and l for one would trust a old hand,they know of sounds and where to place props, [l have been down the Blaenavon one many years ago, turned off the lighting and stood there, it had my hairs standing up],miners back in the 60's had or where trained by the coal board, apprenticeships, water, gas are a few of the problems, then again what type of face/seams are you working on, shallow or deep, also there is what quality of coal,at the end of the day it is a dangerous job

[@Robert-cu9bm]

@@simplyphil.photography164 😂😂 No trained mining engineers. Because Britain was the only place mining coal 🤦

[@markwest9658]

Only took 30 years to wake up. Sorry greta. It's live or freeze. Times have changed. No Russian cheap fuel.self reliable fuels come to mind.Muppets wake up, do it

[@cavendish009]

CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GOOD NEWS !!!! ARE THEY REALLY GOING TO TRY AND KEEP OUR LIGHTS ON AND OUR HEATING WORKING ??????????????????

[@elizabethp.kanizin9009]

I wrote to the BBC on 8th Dec. 2022 on the approval of the coal mine. Good job, guys! 🍀

[@djmossssomjd8496]

Whats that bloody woman on about?! BRITAIN IS in a desperate position!! Best of luck to the great folks who go down that mine to help make Britain GREAT again!!

[@jasondevon481]

Open it again while we still have men who know how to dig it.

[@stalks1413]

Coal everywhere I live in Scotland. Bring back the power stations. Climate change is the biggest con of the century.

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

They tried to do this a while back.....but the nutters rejected it! (I live in Whitehaven.....and it's becoming a ghost town)

[@OCONNER-oj3xg]

Great idea then they can go on strike 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@philiprufus4427]

It was the likes of that sentiment that gave us Thatchers Bs and MASS UNEMOLOYMENT and CLOSURES in Scotland and The North and Midlands in the first place and made us dependant on overseas imports via Thatchers Droogs. I lived it. The World War 11 Generation were more concilitery and had more gumption than Maggies lot. Scargills Mob were the Perfect Match all nutters together, Thatchers lot had an agenda. Scargill knew that,but still played into their hands.

[@jrobinson3189]

It's a no brainer, people are desperate and will certainly suffer if we don't use our own resources so obviously they will keep them closed!

[@cs7th]

Mark out 2,380 black dots on a sheet of paper, then mark a single red dot. Those black dots are air molecules. The red dot is CO2 at the current level of 420 ppm. You can now see that gently vibrating that molecule of CO2 offers no discernable warming effect. The climate has warmed in the last 50 years as it's warmed before in the past, but it isn't due to CO2.

[@davidgreenwood5241]

Question is do the young people want to go down mines now