The headline screams "Britain to be left without emergency coal reserves this winter"
telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/

Oh no! What will we do without coal? We're all going to freeze to death! I'm sure this is the fault of pink-haired woke NIMBY ecoterrorists!

Wait… what's this buried towards the end of the story?

> [Last winter] they were warmed up on seven occasions but only used once, in early March. The contingency cost the Grid – and ultimately bill-payers – about £400m overall.

Oh.

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