Editing Talk:United Kingdom (section)

== Energy ==

So to discuss the partial rewrite I did of the energy section...

A huge part of the text was dedicated to coal extraction which has been reduced to zero with no possibility of it being extracted in the future due to emission targets, making the text not relevant to energy in the UK. Obviously the stat of coal extraction declining is no longer correct and would need replacing with my sentence of it ending.

Reducing the size of the text and bringing it up to date makes it relevant and accessible to more readers. Editors are often saying to reduce the size of the page.

City AM is a London based business newspaper and website, it is a credible reference for the fact I was writing about which was shale gas ending. The text was mostly about extracting coal with fracking, rather than shale gas? It does not make any sense, there is no demand for coal in the UK let alone fracking it and destroying the landscape.

My statistics are more up to date. My citation in the wind section has access to all energy data which was repeated a second time for the coal extraction fact. 

The only two stats missing are:  
...consumed 1,258 thousand bbl/d. 
...the UK was the 21st-largest producer of natural gas in the world.

21st largest producer does not mean much if it's in the middle of the top 40.

Current oil consumption is the only stat missing of value, but the rest of the text looked so irrelevant and out of date it needed a complete rewrite. Thus leaving a stray stat which didn't tie in with the new text. [[User:117PXL|117PXL]] ([[User talk:117PXL|talk]]) 20:40, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for the clarifications, I appreciate it. <span style="border-radius:2px;padding:3px;background:#1E816F">[[User:Remsense|<span style="color:#fff">'''Remsense'''</span>]]<span style="color:#fff">&nbsp;‥&nbsp;</span>[[User talk:Remsense|<span lang="zh" style="color:#fff">'''论'''</span>]]</span> 21:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC)