pointing out an article in the telegraph might not be the best thing for a grommet to do but...on monday jon lloyd gave an interview too the paper talking about the new order for 3.5m tonnes of coal and that there taking on dozens of new apprentices. sounds very upbeat, maybe there is a future for british coal after all. 😮

Given my recent trip to Hatfield Main I would agree... especially if they get the clean coal power stations right.... However the do gooder evironmentalists having been heave hoe'd out of Drax are heading for Hatfield as they don't want no dirty coal powerstations.... well not until the lights go out.... mind you given the conversation with some of the boys there I wouldn't see this protest lasting if it ever happens, I think some in the area might deliver a 'knock out' welcome i... if you get my meaning... 😉

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Yep, coal is looking good.

http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=qkchart&cb=1241571804&symbol=LSE%3Aukc 

So is coal mine gas power.

http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=qkchart&symbol=L%5EALK 

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not so many years ago we were spending a lot of money setting up a huge development at Selby, only to close it when there were the kind of problems which any development of that sort and scale inevitably includes, because the spivs in the City had cherry-picked the best bits and were simply looking for the next deal and the next bonus.

then we spent a lot more money closing a whole sector of industry for resons which were esentially a matter of political dogma.


I was quite happy to be off in the 'international waters' of the oil business at the time. The whole political system semed to be a matter of two dinosaurs with their brains in their backsides, as dinosaurs proverbially do, fighting to the death over issues which were rapidly being superseded anyway; so that either answer would be the wrong one.


If I were a cynical soul, which heaven forbid, I might suspect that this is how we ended up in the present sh1te state.. but never mind.

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I am confident of a proper UK Coal resurgence, however, I think that finding UK staff may be a snag.... or people to train them.

Out of interest, the Carbon Capture Technology requires between 25-40% extra power from the station- In the name of hiding Food Gas from the plants- IPCC sillyness which will result in coal being cained at that rate over what it should be!

I wish they would just say "actually, the political bias driving the conclusions of the IPCC is in fact oil conservation and rather than worrying about plant food gas hysteria, let's just be a bit more careful with our fossil fuels".

CC is a dangerous waste of resources and time. I think people will look back on this period of history as "the silly ages"

I think when the old brownturn finally rights itself after a big dose of much needed maggieness, we shall see an upturn of this....and Cornish tin.

I reckon about 2014 :thumbup:

i must admit that i looked on the uk coal board website and there were no vacancies. i know honister slate mine only employs two east europeans underground, so i am guessing a modern mine probaly does not need many people unfortunately.

i must admit that i looked on the uk coal board website and there were no vacancies. i know honister slate mine only employs two east europeans underground, so i am guessing a modern mine probaly does not need many people unfortunately.

Thats because your looking in the wrong place 😞 , Hatfield is owned by Powerfuel Plc.

http://www.powerfuel.plc.uk/index.html 

and the Welsh concerns by Energybuild Plc (& Unity Power).

http://www.energybuild.co.uk/ 

Both have jobs sections 🙂

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