Ah, right. That's been bubbling along for a while. Approved, rejected, appealed...........
I thought it had fully ended but clearly not.
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I thought it had fully ended but clearly not.
clubchamp98
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Said on the news it was for coking coal for the steel industry.
We import this or did from Russia.
Why are we importing stuff like this when we have our own supplies.
Not brilliant burning this stuff but it cuts out all the travel
The planet dosnt know where it’s mined.
So if we are going to burn it anyway we should burn our own.
We import this or did from Russia.
Why are we importing stuff like this when we have our own supplies.
Not brilliant burning this stuff but it cuts out all the travel
The planet dosnt know where it’s mined.
So if we are going to burn it anyway we should burn our own.
Tashyboy
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what was said is that should it open, green targets would not be met in the UK. That said steel was being imported so coke was mined and burned somewhere, so why not here knowing that relying on energy and steel from overseas runs a fragile risk.
Tashyboy
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Treading carefully,, the idea was that in a world market, cheapest was best. Re coal, did it really matter that coal was imported from countries that have a horrendous safety record. Did it matter that coal cost more from countries but it was subsided by there government to protect there industry and workers, communities etc. It was cheaper and that was all that counted
At the time when pits, steel etc where closed unions were as far out of sync with there own members as the powers that be were with short sighted policies Re steel, coal, railways etc etc.
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Bunkermagnet
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In my field, you can always tell a customer whos fishing. I'm not interested in messing about. If you want an appointment, I can book that now but if you want to "think about it" or my "best price", forget it my time is too valuable.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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I never, ever, look to negotiate on the price a tradesman or service engineer quotes. If I am happy to pay the rate I engage, if I am not then I look elsewhere. If I am happy with the job done I will go back and will recommend…if not then I won’t.In my field, you can always tell a customer whos fishing. I'm not interested in messing about. If you want an appointment, I can book that now but if you want to "think about it" or my "best price", forget it my time is too valuable.
hovis
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I've just had some clown quote 2k labour for a straight swap on a boiler. He even said it'll only take a day ?
PNWokingham
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Same as importing fracked gas from the US. Now a neccesity but we still won't allow our own production that has plentiful supplies and could help our domestic self reliance and save all the transport Co2 and costs - and give a major local and national economic voost
Mel Smooth
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Is that labour only?
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Wow, i'll have to increase my rates?
chellie
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Fracking can just frack off unless it's in Jacob Rees Moggs back garden!!!!!!
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Whilst he's in it?????
Tashyboy
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Under it ?
chellie
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Yes and he did say they could do it in his garden.
But will it? The original U.K.-wide survey suggested around 30 trillion cubic metres. This has been downgraded to 3.8tn, with 0.7tn deemed unrecoverable because of location.
Pricing; it’s expected that any shale gas found will make no difference to the retail price for two reasons. The volume isn’t big enough to drive prices down. No supplier would be magnanimous enough to sell it below market price - imagine any CEO ‘selling’ that concept at an AGM.
hovis
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Yeh. Plus £1800 for a boiler I just saw online for £1223, £200 for a filter and £400 for a chemical flush.
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Fracking is a terrible idea. Awful.
It works in the USA for them but for us it's a really bad solution, releasing toxins into the water table, the fact it would take years to even become viable and wouldn't solve bugger all as we would have to sell it at market rate and couldn't just keep it anyways.
Such a myth that it will solve our issues
Unless it's in his garden like you say aha
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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Besides…any CEO has some legal obligation to maximise shareholder benefit, and certainly not implement measures that curtail shareholder benefit.
Tashyboy
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Just reading this morning that the British army is expected to drop into roles where people will be on strike over Xmas. High ranking officials have stated that it is wrong. They have gone on record and said “ a soldier earns £22k a year, he is expected to cancel his Xmas and cover for someone who has asked for a rise of 19%, that person already earns more than a private soldier. Furthermore for the last 10 years a soldier has had a pay rise each year which has been less than inflation”.
For me, That last sentence sums up even more where the underlying problem lays. For a decade, the NHS, ambulance, border control, firemen etc etc have seen cuts to there budgets and services coupled with less than inflation pay rises. The same as a soldier. The latest inflation figures have tipped people over the edge.
The latest idea is to make striking illegal. That is not the answer to the problem.
For me, That last sentence sums up even more where the underlying problem lays. For a decade, the NHS, ambulance, border control, firemen etc etc have seen cuts to there budgets and services coupled with less than inflation pay rises. The same as a soldier. The latest inflation figures have tipped people over the edge.
The latest idea is to make striking illegal. That is not the answer to the problem.
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