Didcot powerstation

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Just because JC's family happened to be in engineering and science doesn't make him a saint - and history records just what a creature the man really is.

By coincidence I posted this is another thread

A couple of years ago, I stopped in a Hotel and my room overlooked the site of the Battle of Orgreave which took place in June 1984.  I was a “Power Worker” at the time, picket lines and police road blocks were commonplace. Residual bitterness and enmities still linger in certain communities.


Anyone who believes that any of our political “leaders” are "saints" or "creatures" has perhaps lingered too long in the aforementioned Anchor Inn at Abingdon or a similar establishment.?  ?

We made decisions in the UK and coal mining is history. I was in Silesia recently where the situation is different and we have all read about China. I won’t debate UK energy and industrial policy over the last quarter century here, but there is plenty of scope to criticise.  I tried to find some safety statistics about the Selby complex , which was the last pit I went down, with a friend who ran the mines training centre at Allerton Bywater.  In the hope of political balance I have chosen two sources.  Also for context is the obituary of John Lyons who I met on several occasions and some members may have known well.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1401643/2000-jobs-to-go-at-doomed-coalfield-that-lost-millions.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/oct/26/g2

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/14/john-lyons-obituary



 

 

OMS

Just because JC's family happened to be in engineering and science doesn't make him a saint - and history records just what a creature the man really is.

By coincidence I posted this is another thread

A couple of years ago, I stopped in a Hotel and my room overlooked the site of the Battle of Orgreave which took place in June 1984.  I was a “Power Worker” at the time, picket lines and police road blocks were commonplace. Residual bitterness and enmities still linger in certain communities.


Anyone who believes that any of our political “leaders” are "saints" or "creatures" has perhaps lingered too long in the aforementioned Anchor Inn at Abingdon or a similar establishment.?  ?

We made decisions in the UK and coal mining is history. I was in Silesia recently where the situation is different and we have all read about China. I won’t debate UK energy and industrial policy over the last quarter century here, but there is plenty of scope to criticise.  I tried to find some safety statistics about the Selby complex , which was the last pit I went down, with a friend who ran the mines training centre at Allerton Bywater.  In the hope of political balance I have chosen two sources.  Also for context is the obituary of John Lyons who I met on several occasions and some members may have known well.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1401643/2000-jobs-to-go-at-doomed-coalfield-that-lost-millions.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/oct/26/g2

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/14/john-lyons-obituary