Open Cast Coal site request for help

I see you've put a call out for sand and cement, presumably this is for lockons. Yes I know cement production creates much CO2 emissions but sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Don't just use any old sand like soft builder's sand cos that'll make very weak concrete. There's a bit of a lock on recipe here:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365111.html

While i commend your stance against the "powers-that-be", having spent months traveling back 'n' forth to Newbury, only to see our efforts thwarted (by-pass got done anyway), I long ago reached conclusion that those with compassion are better spending their energies on demanding positive change; people need alternatives.

While-ever we're forced to spend ever increasing amounts of fuel bills, most just haven't the cash or know-how for utilising eco-alternatives, which at present are only available to the wealthy ('Who Killed the Electric Car' is a must-see documentary free-to-view on 'veoh').

As a vegan, it is of course extremely upsetting that wildlife is being destroyed, but strongly feel we must start loudly demanding new technology, rather than constantly wasting time & energy on fighting the big corporations/vampires. I'm in favour of eco-energy because I loathe petro-pollutants, I simply do not accept the ridiculous claim that the 0.03% of carbon "humanity" has contributed is really responsible for global warming; we're currently in the throes of a magnetic-pole reversal (can take up to 300 years) and during this period, Earth's temperature does increase due to increased levels of solar radiation.

I'm not at all surprised that the rich are now burdening everyone with guilt, for the mess they've created; guilty people tend to keep quiet. But whether we stop using fossil fuels or not, the climate is changing, nothing we can do will stop that - the question is; are we prepared?

Debbie, millions are going to die, and ecosystems (and the cuddly little animals you seems so keen on that live in them) are going to be destroyed because the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is on it way to be being double what it was before the industrial revolution. You somehow think that taking huge amounts of carbon out of the ground and putting it in the atmosphere wont effect the climate. Are you completely mad? Do you actually understand the physics of gases?

Wake up and smell what you shovelin' girl.

Oh, and yes; massive respect to the Derbyshire posse for this magnificent action.

It's fantastic you have set up site to stop the mine. Well done and good luck.
I do think cement should be used as little as possible. It contributes significantly to the huge quarries in the Derbyshire hills near the mine site, pollutes watercourses, requires transporting in lorries, releases loads of CO2 in the chemical reaction, and it isn't even vegan. But there's not many other options for a decent lock-on, is there?
Keep up the good work squatters!

coal is not always just burned to produce energy/electricity.it is often used to produce things like plastic/tar/bitchumen and so on.how many wood fired power stations do you think it would take to replace Drax...how do you think the public's (and that includes you) energy requirements are to be met do you think it is right that we have to buy our energy from abroad and pay inflated prices investing in coal again helps make Britain more energy self sufficient.

we don't need jobs at the expense of the planet. This is plainly mad. The obsession with getting everyone "into work" comes from the huge resentment that people with no free time feel towards those with nothing to do, even though nothing to do equals no money. All those who take payment for work which they do not believe in are prostitutes. Thats not to say food on the table isnt good, just that mostly we can get by on a lot less. Time is more valuable than money. People with time on their hands are a nightmare..always writing letters, protesting, complaining, chaining themselves to things...

To ex-british Coal employee - "how many wood burning power stations would you need'' - don't make me laugh- in Derby there are plans for 3 incinerators alias energy from waste incinerators - all planned for the most deprived and polluted wards - one of them for Osmaston (which is the 9th such ward out of over 800 (Env Ag figs) - will burn wood waste from all over the region. The burning of this 'waste' will produce dioxin - one of the most poisonous toxins known to mankind and which is implicated in birth defects, stillbirth rates, deformities, etc Other emissions will be sulphuric acid mist, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, aresenic and other lovelies, all destined for an Air Quality Management Area in which Govt air qual standards are already being breached. The engines used to burn the gas produced by part-burning the wood (don't get me started on where the toxic ash is going to go....) are called 'turbo-chargers' and 6 of them are planned. Each one will be the noise equivalent of a train.. your so-called sustainable wood-burning plant is nothing of the sort and ends up using more power than it produces, as it is a secondary form of energy - same as coal.
If such plants are supported we're still burning, which I'm sure you will agree is quite a Neanderthal thing to do - so hurry up and get that solar panel on your roof (ours got to 61.3 today)and get down to the site with your ideas for a wind turbine

hello theadora can you tell me how much it costs to fit a solar panel or a layer of panels to a house/roof ? and how much it costs to erect a wind turbine ? is there a complex planning permission procedure to go through involving the local authority is it possible to turn your house into a completely energy self sufficient household for a reasonable layout or is it very very expensive.

so theadora what are the answers to dreamspirit's questions