Putin puts coal on track for a comeback in UK | Climate Depot climatedepot.com/2022/03/15/put…
The Daily Telegraph: With Sir David Attenborough by his side at the Science Museum, Boris Johnson declared “a year of climate action” in the run-up to the Cop26 summit.
But soaring prices caused by Putin’s invasion mean Britain has now done a U-turn in rhetoric and is looking at whether it can eke out more years from its ageing coal plants, to help cut gas usage in the immediate term.
“The UK remains committed to ending the use of coal power by 2024,” a spokesman for the Government added. “We will be setting out plans to boost our long-term energy resilience and domestic supply shortly.”
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