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We need politicians to admit there is another way to tackle the energy crisis
Can coal be part of the solution to tackling climate change, asks CHRIS KITCHEN, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers
[Michal Matlon / Creative Commons]

WE ALL know that climate change has and will continue to affect us all, and that politicians say that to avoid a climate disaster we must reduce CO2 emissions to net zero.

We all know that closing the British coalmining industry and coal-fired power stations was not a magnanimous act to combat climate change. 

It was a politically motivated vendetta against the miners, their communities and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the consequences of which we are now paying for through our ever-increasing energy bills.

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