Scots want coal levy cash
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing has called for levies made on coal mined in Scotland, which total £15 million, to be passed to Scotland from Westminster so they can be used to restore opencast mine sites.
Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing has called for levies made on coal mined in Scotland, which total £15 million, to be passed to Scotland from Westminster so they can be used to restore opencast mine sites.
Will old coal be phased out around 2023, as policymakers have assumed, or will it still be in operation? Work by Imperial College researchers, on behalf of WWF, suggests that the Capacity Market (CM) has little effect on that outcome.