The Daily Populous Friday September 27th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by bbc.co.uk and submitted by SarumanWizard

'Seeing the towers meant we were nearly home'

Residents who live near to the site have discussed the impact of the power station on their lives with BBC East Midlands Today.

Lyn Shawcroft said: "I think quite a few people will be disappointed, because we have art students sketching and photographing quite frequently, the sort of architectural side of things."

Raymond State, Ratcliffe-on-Soar parish treasurer, said: "When we’ve been away either going south or north, we can see the power station from quite a way off.

"Then we are quite pleased because we know we are near home."

ClearAddition on September 27th, 2024 at 13:10 UTC »

This closure has been a model of how to do a Just Transition - basically all the workers have already got other work lined up and big redundancy packages, through union pressure. More on it here

Source: Brit who writes about this stuff

MarchElectronic15 on September 27th, 2024 at 13:05 UTC »

Congrats UK! If only NZ could achieve that.

YsoL8 on September 27th, 2024 at 09:27 UTC »

> Richard Montgomery, electrical engineer at the station, said: “The emotions are building as we’re getting closer to 30 September.

Someone tell the Trek sub - their man had an ancestor who was involved directly in winding up coal pernamentally.

Also:

> Mr O'Grady, from Lincoln, who joined the industry in 1988, said there would be "a little bit of a celebration" on Tuesday as operation at the site ended.

> "It’s a major thing – this is the end of coal-fire generation in the UK," he said.

> “When I started in the industry, 80% of the UK’s power was from coal, and by the end of next week it will be zero and the lights have stayed on."