Consultant Ecologist. Education: Imperial & UEA. Interests: Many: wildlife, the outdoors, cycling, protecting wildlife & environment/climate. End fossil fuels!
Dec 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
.@NatashaC This is not true:
"The new coking pit is vital to producing more domestic steel in the UK"
The reality is that UK has 4 active coal-fed blast furnaces of which 1 of 2 at Port Talbot reaches end-of-life ~2026/7 and 1 of 2 at Scunthorpe will be replaced with an EAF 🧵
not long after, & Cumbria coal is too high sulphur for Scunthorpe anyhow.
This leaves just 1 BF at PT that could use any of it, & then only as a small part of a blend, & only for a few years until it too gets replaced with an EAF (Electric Arc Furnace).
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Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Hi @markjenkinsonmp
Pls explain how #Cumbriacoalmine wld save shipping emissions if most of its output wld be exported far East to Asia - which WCM's consultant WoodMackenzie advised in Inquiry as poss market if EU+UK stick to their climate commitments? 🧵
@markjenkinsonmp And also why highlight "savings" in shipping emissions? For US to UK/EU they would be ~1% to 2% of the huge size of the end-use emissions (9 million tonnes CO2e pa).
The 9Mtpa would be zero if the Cumbria coal left in the ground.
The UK & EU steel industry is switching from coal:
