Welsh government have refused to extend the licence of the only remaining open-cast coal mine in Wales. It employs quite a few people, so their jobs are toast.
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One for TNP
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They could have just undone the ring of nuts holding the tower onto the studs set into the concrete base.
Then just bolt another new one onto the base :-)
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Yebbut there was concern about the stability of the damaged mast and that it could collapse at any time, so it had to come down in a hurry rather than have people slowly and painstakingly unscrewing all the nuts. And I wouldn't fancy being the guy given the job of undoing the last few...
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The Saturn 5 moon rocket used explosive bolts to separate the stages :-)
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I imagine they thought that a man crawling around on the outside with a spanner would take a little too long... :-)
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and how do you propose to achieve that? This should be funny. Bring popcorn.
That you're not sure who makes laws here? Not even vaguely. Let's stick to content rather than that eh.
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Ah - right. So 'they' are actually the legal goverment. Which shouldn't be allowed to govern, in your world?
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But not the legal owners of the mine, so they are interfering in an *existing* business.
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I don't know the breakdown but the aerospace divisions (up in the air) are quite separate from the nuclear (primarily under the water). It is the aero-engine side that will have suffered for obvious reasons.
Nearly 50yrs since I received my "Dear Sir or Madam" redundancy notice (the crash in 1971).
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You should move to the US. Where profit comes before absolutely everything.
And I'm sure you'd love to have open cast coal mining nice and close to where you live.
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There are 3 things: profit, good reasons & BS. Here BS comes ahead of profit too many times.
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In article snipped-for-privacy@bancom.co.uk>, tony sayer snipped-for-privacy@bancom.co.uk> scribeth thus
.15 GW or .44% of the UK demand today!, impressive eh:?...
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In article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Chris Hogg snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net scribeth thus
I would have thought a large crane might be holding it by then but suppose blowing it down is cheaper!