I never thought I would agree with anything in The Red Book, but I find myself endorsing the proposal by Ian Lavery MP to develop clean coal technology to make the United Kingdom self-sufficient in energy:
http://www.labourleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/74185392-The-Red-Book.pdf (starts page 183).
We have coal to last 200 years (at present rates of energy use).
And before anyone starts, it was Heseltine who closed the mines under the Major government - all Margaret Thatcher did was to face down the blackmail that resulted from the closed shop in the NUM.
http://www.labourleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/74185392-The-Red-Book.pdf (starts page 183).
We have coal to last 200 years (at present rates of energy use).
And before anyone starts, it was Heseltine who closed the mines under the Major government - all Margaret Thatcher did was to face down the blackmail that resulted from the closed shop in the NUM.
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