Last mine gone

[Guest77]

End of an era, it costs us £43 quid to make and we can buy it for £30 quid, so we have decided to close the mine, and we have decided to buy from abroad where it is cheaper, is it sensible? is price the only reason and is jobs and creating our own coal more important than feeding the Russians? thoughts lads.

 

[Pete999]

Great Britain? another stab in the back for the sake of the almighty Dollar, what a bleeding waste of money,all the skills gone to waste, false economy IMO, and a drain on the social services, what are all the poor miners going to do? a travesty thats what it is a damn travesty, whoever made this god awful decision want's putting down.

 

[Octopus]

A daft decision if you ask me.

There was a resounding silence from all parties on this.

The UK has over 300 years of supplies, so lets hope the green tree hugging brigade learn in the future and re-open the ones that can be.

In the meantime China is burning more coal than most of the planet put together and don't get a fxck about emissions.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Tesco opened a petrol station near me and undercut their rival, cheap petrol ! - Happy days !! - then the rival stopped selling petrol and disappeared. Almost like magic Tesco increased the price beyond the market value. Even an idiot can see what will happen in the long term. A good time to buy shares in UK coal, if you ask me.

 

[Midwest]

Whilst depressing for the local economy and jobs, you have to look at wider picture. It seems that coal consumption is on the decline; Paris Climate Agreement Deals a Crushing Blow to Coal - Truthdig

Although there is an argument to the contrary; The Paris Agreement won't stop coal, but future climate talks might

And if you believe the media, gas will be next; Britain will have to scrap gas boilers and cookers as it panders to UN climate change deal | UK | News | Daily Express

Would love to be around in a 100 years from now. Think the only thing to be certain of, is electricity will still be in our homes. How we generate it, only time will tell.

 

[Barry White]

the mine has closed, now the power station it feeds has to go,lots of engineering firms nearby will be affected.
Now we have no deep mined coal the price will increase when we need it.
the money is going abroad and not being spent in the uk.

Its called putting your eggs in one basket. and the real reason they have shut it is carbon tax it doubled this year
Carbon floor price hike will trigger UK coal slowdown, say analysts | Environment | The Guardian

 

[Guest77]

Good comments lads, I am confused by it all, to close down working mines and to lay off workers who then need to claim benefits, proud hard working men, and then to buy the very same product we have loads of from Russia seems ridiculous to me. I appreciate 13 quid difference in the prices of it, but it makes no sence, we did it with other industry and if we carry on like this we will end up with nothing industry wise, surely creating our own has to be the way forward if we need coal, the powers that be need to sit down and look at other options concidering costs and ouput IMO. This cannot be good long term, the Russians are already holding us to ransom now over Gas, if we are to survive alone which may be the case once we have left the EU, then we need to create our own industry surely, pretty confused here.

 

[BES]

Acording to one report they are leaving £150 m of equipment underground. Mind you not much use to us no bloody miners left to us it. Sad times another 450 out of work a week before christmas and the max payout they are getting is 12 weeks pay.

 

[ian.settle1]

Acording to one report they are leaving £150 m of equipment underground. Mind you not much use to us no bloody miners left to us it. Sad times another 450 out of work a week before christmas and the max payout they are getting is 12 weeks pay.

And filling the shaft with concrete so if they wanted to reopen it they would have to sink a new shaft.

 

[Midwest]

Tis sad times, but times move on. Coal is old hat and we need a cleaner source of fuel. That said, when I did a bit of research on this thread, one of the main sources of contribution to global warming, was the fuel we burnt in our vehicles. Guess its easier to power our cars on petrol/diesel than nuclear/solar power!

 

[newtothis]

They were, doing interviews with minors leaving the PIT
One lad said, "he'll end up selling flat pack furniture at B&Q".
The reality is he'll be competing for that kind of work with people with Russian sounding accents, subsidised by 'in work benefits'.

Fracking - that's what 'they' want to do on a large scale.
They; being the relative few who will actually £££benefit.

Sorry just my personal feelings on the subject, they may not be factual.:evil2:

 

[Marvo]

.......I appreciate 13 quid difference in the prices of it, ......

How can it be nearly 45% more expensive to mine your coal locally in the UK than have it shipped half way around the planet? Surely that has to be the question?

 

[davesparks]

Tis sad times, but times move on. Coal is old hat and we need a cleaner source of fuel. That said, when I did a bit of research on this thread, one of the main sources of contribution to global warming, was the fuel we burnt in our vehicles. Guess its easier to power our cars on petrol/diesel than nuclear/solar power!

With today's technology a new coal fired plant could be a very clean source of power, but sadly not very trendy.

 

[ruston]

With today's technology a new coal fired plant could be a very clean source of power, but sadly not very trendy.

Yes the methods to burn coal clean have been around a long time now. We were blending low sulphur coal in the late seventies and supplying power stations.

 

[davesparks]

Yes the methods to burn coal clean have been around a long time now. We were blending low sulphur coal in the late seventies and supplying power stations.

Add the various flue gas technologies and I believe a very clean plant can be achieved