Scargill Is Partly To Blame!

These islands are built on top of a coal source which could potentially solve our energy needs for up to 400 years.
Sadly, almost all of this is the 'deep-mined' variety.
It is not cost effective - or should I say that Scargill and his NUM ensured that mining costs would always be too high to make it viable?
Not only did he wreck our mining industry, he ensured that the future of coal for the UK was undermined and made energy planning much more difficult.
Add EU strictures on coal-fired power stations - and a whole energy source has been removed from the thinking.