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What Price? The real price of Coal, related to Preserving Rhaslas Pond
People do not realise the real price of coal, the horrible diseases people are still dying from today, the dust created by airborne particles from opencast mining, is polluting our air and killing the children and our future, breathing problems and lung related diseases are already on the up. The so called protected wildlife will suffer by losing the land that is their home and the nesting birds will go away again, the mountains will become barren, black deserts, because of the greed of companies like Miller Argent who put their profits before the health of people and the environment they are destroying.
We WILL NOT let this happen, they are thinking of digging marshland, home to many species of nesting birds, such as Lapwings, Plovers, Skylarks & many more, that hasn't been touched in over a thousand years, what right do they have to destroy this beautiful natural sight around Rhaslas pond?,
and the beautiful views that people see every day will be gone forever.
In the words of James Dean Bradfield "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next".
After yesterday's discussion about coal/electricity, I awoke this morning to find the electricity was off. A serious reminder of how one depends on it. I could manage without lights as themornings are much brighter now but couldn't phone anyone to find about the electricity cut as mylandline is electronic and my mobile phoneno longer works inside the house! It's back now, of course, but it's worrying to think of being without. Back in the Winter of Discontent (Ted Heath's time), I remember having Aladdin lamps in our shop in Carmarthen but in those days we didn't have all these electronic gadgets and phones could still be used.
I can't help feeling that we should be getting past coal-mining now, with all the options open to us in terms of solar/sea power (NOT wind turbines). Also, better insulated housing which is cool in the summer and warm in the winter, leading to a diminished need for central heating. I've said it before but the government should be making laws about how new housing is built. A friend of the family, a former miner, died from lung disease - he was old before his time. As Max Boyce sang "every time I cough I get a mining souvenir".