A new modern coal industry...

[Hagar]

The coal fields up here are in rural areas where noise, dirt and light (you missed that one) don't tend to cause issues...heck they allowed a massive opencast right next to one of the major population centres (Cramlington). Transport links via sea and rail are readily available. They were specifically told that the move was away from coal. Not opencast mining.

I know Cramlington. Yes 24h working at surface will slso cause light pollution.

I agree that the focus has been anti coal due to pressure from certain groups. The political situation has been changed, not only with the great bear in the east but also with communities levelling up for jobs and the need for steelmaking, maybe in the aforementioned neck of the woods up in the north east. Is Redcar still producing?

Who knows if this will end with just one location. I hope that investment also covers cleaner coal technology and avoiding the mistakes of the past industry.

 

[Dis86]

I know Cramlington. Yes 24h working at surface will slso cause light pollution.

I agree that the focus has been anti coal due to pressure from certain groups. The political situation has been changed, not only with the great bear in the east but also with communities levelling up for jobs and the need for steelmaking, maybe in the aforementioned neck of the woods up in the north east. Is Redcar still producing?

Who knows if this will end with just one location. I hope that investment also covers cleaner coal technology and avoiding the mistakes of the past industry.

I remember being able to see Shotton from about 25 miles away!
Pretty sure Redcar is gone, think it's now a wind turbine factory.
Druridge has good links via blyth for export via sea or rail or rail only via what was alcan.

 

[silversurfer]

I wonder if this is project I read about, under the sea they leave the coal in situ and somehow produce energy from the coal and only transport that, its a gas or something clever like that. If its for steel then it'll need the raw coal just reminds me of something suggested prevous.
UK wastes energy constantly on multiple fronts, with weak Sterling now we really cant continue to import instead of produce.

allegedly: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/coal-gasification