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Fri, 10th Jul 2020 18:53:00 |
British Steel made with Russian coal leaves North East miners jobless |
“As it stands, that will be the last coal coming out of England on a surface mine,” says Gavin Styles, MD of Banks Mining, owner of the Bradley site. That may be good news for the government’s zero carbon emissions target but not for the 250 miners who face losing their jobs. UK industry still needs coal to make steel and cement and even power heritage steam engines, but Russia is now the main source for all our coal needs.
“Every tonne we don’t produce in the UK is going to be brought in from Russia,” says 42-year-old Styles. “That means that a British job producing a tonne of coal in a greener way is now going to be done by a Russian.”
Last year, 86 percent of our coal was imported from abroad, with Russia producing a third of that, followed by the USA and Australia. With Bradley closing that means the UK will be wholly dependent on foreign coal, with Russia being the big winner. For Styles, this makes no environmental sense at all.
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