A good portion of my ancestry is Scot (Scottish). I was in Scotland for a week or so when I was just 11 years old, that was quite a few years ago. 🙂 More recently, a friend of mine and I spent a full three weeks in Scotland.
I love Scotland. A recent news article gave me reason to love Scotland even more.
A bit of background is that Scotland destroyed/removed all but one of its coal-fired plants that generate electricity. Well, guess what, they recently blew up the very last one too. They just blew it up! Ok, I guess the proper terminology is that they blew it “down”, but I like the other wording better. 🙂 As they would say in Scotland … aye jimmy we blew it up!
Here’s the story … turn your sound on!
Scotland removes the last coal-fired plant in Scotland.
Use the link here in this paragraph to watch a second video that shows the column or chimney being blown apart … https://www.bbc.com/news/av-embeds/59578148/vpid/p0b8zljs. Click on the link … and then click on the white arrow in the RED square on the left to start the video.
I’m told that England, more particularly the English Parliament, did not approve the removal of this coal burning plant initially, that they fought against Scotland’s plan to remove it, but that the Scottish people voted to demolish it anyway and so the English finally agreed.
This one plant in Scotland, just this one plant, was the biggest polluting, coal-burning plant in Europe. Start the video below and then wait a bit for the sound to start, it takes a little while before the sound starts. The sound on your computer/tablet should already be on right? Ok, just wait, the sound will start in the video after a few moments. When England told Scotland to continue using this coal-fired plant, in essence to continue polluting the earth, this was Scotland’s reply.
Scotland said NO! No, we aren’t going to do that anymore; we aren’t going to pollute our own country and the whole world.
And then Scotland blew up the entire coal-fired plant. Aye jimmy we blew it up!
As one media source said, “For the first time in more than a century, no power produced in Scotland will come from burning coal.”
So where does Scotland get their electricity? Renewable sources produced 97.4% of Scotland’s electricity consumption in 2020, mostly from Scotland’s own wind power sources, but also from wave and tide sources, and various solar sources.
In 2019, there were 241 (241!) operating and polluting coal-fired plants in the USA. Might we all say NO to coal plants, to fracking for natural gas, to the continued increase in our dependency on and use of fossil fuels? Is Scotland the only country on earth willing to say no?
Aye jimmy let’s blow them up!!