{"id":7863,"date":"2021-02-12T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2021-03-13T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T09:49:39","slug":"imagine-a-conversation-east-of-the-vistula-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/02\/12\/imagine-a-conversation-east-of-the-vistula-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal and the Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imagine a conversation somewhere east of the Vistula ...<\/div>\n
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Sergey<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Some good energy news for a change Mr President. \u00a0Useful idiots in England have pressurised an out of their depth local council to change its tune about opening a new mine for coking coal. \u00a0This means we can keep exporting the stuff to them.<\/div>\n
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Vladimir<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Excellent. \u00a0Tell me, we don\u2019t actually pay these fools do we?<\/div>\n
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Sergey<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Not at all, Vladimir Vladimirovich. \u00a0There\u2019s no need;\u00a0they\u2019re happy to help us export our coal to them because they\u2019re afraid of the bad publicity that opening a coal mine would mean when they are hosting COP26.<\/div>\n
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Vladimir<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
So we keep the jobs in Mother Russia, then, and maintain our export market?<\/div>\n
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Sergey<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Indeed, even though the carbon footprint of our coal is higher than theirs would have been because of the transport costs. \u00a0And they might have developed an export market themselves.<\/div>\n
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Vladimir<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Tell, me Sergey Viktorovich, \u00a0how do we make sure that the UK always hosts these COP meetings?<\/div>\n
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\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
This same conversation (albeit this time between Antony and Joe) also took place east of the Potomac around the same time. \u00a0For details of who'll\u00a0continue to\u00a0export coking coal to the UK see Stastica<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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