Big Green vs King Coal
I beg to differ:
Thanks to exhaust scrubbers our coal plants are the cleanest in the world. Air quality tests show particulates at an all-time low. Strict regulations are already in place and much research has already been done on power plant emissions.
Your paranoia about an all-powerful coal lobby is sadly misplaced. Wind power is heavily supported by all three main political parties and the EU. In the UK the wind-lobby has secured an £18B/yr tax-payer subsidy for the next 20 years. The beneficiaries are the same "evil capitalist" corporations like EDF and EON who also run conventional power stations. They are quite happy to collect huge taxpayer subsidies for expensive inefficient "green" energy. There's also a multi-billion pound carbon credit trading industry, and a multi million pound green pressure group industry, not to mention huge ranks of government funded scientists and bureaucrats, all riding the climate change gravy train.
So sorry to inform you that the "profit motivated industrialists" are all working for Big Green now. Not King Coal.