The arrival of President Trump’s official delegation to last week’s COP23 conference in Bonn was – in the immortal words of Billy Connolly – “as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.” The presence of Holly Krutka, an executive from Peabody Energy (the biggest coal miner in the USA) among …
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In its heyday, the British coal industry produced more than 280 million tons a year. Today, what remains produces less than 9 million tons – less than was produced at the height of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Since then, demand has fallen steadily as industrial users either closed or used …
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Barely a week goes by these days without someone claiming that this or that country ran entirely on renewable energy. But these claims are more about lulling the population into a false sense of security than any realistic appraisal of either national or global energy use. Even Britain’s recent coal-free …
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Consciousness of Sheep