Regardless of what energy source that the UK decides to use, there will always be somebody that complains about it.

But then they still want electricity and heating 🙄

“it would probably employ as many as bike shops do I reckon.”

The government should open bike shops then.

There is a lot of indirect jobs reliant to some degree on the sector though.

Soap suppliers must do well 😉

Some interesting numbers here for those that like’em,

http://www.ukcoal.com/world-coal-statistics.html

Not sure how reliable, our reserves are dwarfed by USA / Russia/ China and just about every other country, but then our use is only a fraction of what we do have. Presumably though some coal is cheaper to produce than others which is why we import.

Also found this so it’s not just all oop north yer know.

How on earth did the South Midlands achieve such an accurate figure?!