"Coal is back, and back in a big way," says Edmund Conway in The Daily Telegraph. The black stuff, which has long been derided as an "environmental nightmare", is now being touted as a key part of Britain's energy future, and its clean energy future at that.
There are now a host of new technologies out there that make it an environmentally friendly energy source that is "clean enough for Kyoto". And this week, says Terry Macalister in The Guardian, the Government gave its "clearest signal yet that King Coal is ready for a comeback".
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