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Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4563
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 12:23 pm Post subject:
Just another bit of info that won`t go down well here i presume, With Drax getting in the region of 1 Billion grant to go the Biomass route,shipping their woodchips from the Southern States of the US, They are apparently going to build another Coal Burning facility.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 1:58 pm Post subject:
According to local news it will involve carbon capture and storage under the seabed.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 4:51 pm Post subject:
Do we have any links?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 5:11 pm Post subject:
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=drax+power+station&tbm=nws

henchard

Joined: 23 Aug 2012
Posts: 232
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 5:35 pm Post subject:

I don't have enough info to comment. My own view is pretty much that mankind is fecked.

whilst doing a bit of searching for some facts etc I came across this blog which I found interesting

https://jackcollier7.com/tag/chris-huhne/

As above I can't comment much but there are some interesting points for discussion particularly the fact that

Chris Huhne, the ex boss of the U.K.s Department of for Energy & Climate Change, has recently landed a £100,000 a year job with U.S. company Zilkha Biomass.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 5:49 pm Post subject:

henchard wrote:

I don't have enough info to comment.

Me neither, but I will anyway...

The bottom of the North Sea does sound like a better place than a regular top dressing on North Yorkshire, at least.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45521
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 6:03 pm Post subject:

OtleyLad wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

OtleyLad wrote:

'The Greenest Government ever' has a familiar stench to it.

Green is what you usually get when you mix blue and yellow... and people often turn green when they're sick...
I think it is a not an unfair description.

Well put sir!

i would laugh it it wasnt true

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45521
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 6:06 pm Post subject:
Chris Huhne, the ex boss of the U.K.s Department of for Energy & Climate Change, has recently landed a £100,000 a year job with U.S. company Zilkha Biomass.[/quote] that bit is rather interesting

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4563
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 6:06 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

According to local news it will involve carbon capture and storage under the seabed.

Notice the Government are providing funding up to 2 billion for this carbon capture,

Yet refused a lot less funding for a similar plant at Hatfield Colliery,year before last? when Budge and the Russian company were running the business,and planned on carbon capture to the same system being banded by Drax,alongside the Colliery.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4563
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 6:07 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

henchard wrote:

I don't have enough info to comment.

Me neither, but I will anyway...

The bottom of the North Sea does sound like a better place than a regular top dressing on North Yorkshire, at least.

That`s what makes your grass grow so well up North,lol.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 8:05 pm Post subject:
If only

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 9:12 pm Post subject:
Most people I suspect don't really give a shit for the planet and would rather leave their feckless children a really crap planet to try to live on because they'd rather have cheaper power bills and perhaps spare money to buy the latest shiny iNeedOneNow doodad. And we get exactly the venal self serving politicians we deserve.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 9:22 pm Post subject:

boisdevie1 wrote:

Most people I suspect don't really give a shit for the planet and would rather leave their feckless children a really crap planet to try to live on because they'd rather have cheaper power bills and perhaps spare money to buy the latest shiny iNeedOneNow doodad.
And we get exactly the venal self serving politicians we deserve.

If only you were wrong. But i can't argue with you.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 10:40 pm Post subject:

boisdevie1 wrote:

And we get exactly the venal self serving politicians we deserve.

Why do we deserve them?
Damn sure I didn't vote for any of them.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 13 10:44 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Damn sure I didn't vote for any of them.

*Everybody* wants the casting vote.

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