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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment

Despite the end of coal-fired power, the UK’s green energy future is still unclear

Protesters carrying signs rally against Drax power station.
Protesters rally against Drax power station. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

The closure of our last coal-fired power station (End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down, 30 September) would be more impressive if we weren’t burning trees in the old Drax power station, originally built for coal.

Adding insult to injury, this absurdity gets millions of pounds a year in government subsidies. This on the pretence that it’s somehow “green”. Such delusional behaviour is perhaps related to the fact that hardly any cabinet members, in either our last government or our new one, was any kind of a scientist.
Donald Simpson
Rochdale, Greater Manchester

• With the closure of the UK’s last coal-fired power station, will we still have sufficient capacity to generate homegrown clouds?
Jude McCarthy
Austerlands, Greater Manchester

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