Tag Archives: climate change

Ask the fellows who cut the peats

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

  “I just went and asked for a job – I fancied gaan cuttin’ peat. The foreman said, ‘I’ll take you up on the moss’ – and what a walk it was! A big wide open space, peat stacks everywhere. … Continue reading →

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What price the Solway’s undersea coal?

Posted on November 5, 2015 by

The last coalmine under the Solway Firth, Haig Pit at Whitehaven, was closed in 1986. A note in the Haig Mining Museum states that hundreds of millions of tons of coal remain, up to 10 miles offshore and for two … Continue reading →

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Coal reserves: the ‘profound contradiction’

Posted on March 7, 2015 by

Today in the Guardian, editor Alan Rusbridger explains why his paper will concentrate on climate change for the next few weeks: he regrets “that we had not done justice to this huge, overshadowing, overwhelming issue of how climate change will … Continue reading →

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The balance sheet between blue and green

Posted on November 10, 2014 by

‘A thin blue line’. Of policemen edging a protest march? The blue halo of Earth’s fragile atmosphere as seen from space? No – in this case, a blue line that Robert Alcock painted along a sea-wall in Bilbao in 2011, … Continue reading →

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Undersea coal

Posted on June 13, 2014 by

It was a shrewd move to designate West Cumbria as ‘Britain’s Energy CoastTM’. Launched in 2008,  BEC stretches along the coast of the Solway Firth from Silloth to Barrow-in-Furness. Luke Dicicco, Communications Manager of Britain’s Energy Coast and Cumbria Vision, … Continue reading →

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