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The Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station which is to shut at the end of September, drawing to a close Britain's 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity, September 13, 2024
BRITAIN’S last coal-fired power station Ratcliffe-on-Soar will close its doors on Monday.
The power station, located in Nottinghamshire, has supplied the nation with electricity since 1968.
Its closure will mark the end of Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel, and make Britain the first G7 country to phase out coal power.
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
