Steam coal mine plan refused – but HRA pledge battle will go on
THE Heritage Railway Association (HRA) has vowed to fight to the last to save supplies of British steam coal.
With several of the UK’s last mines producing the essential type of coal either having just closed or about to cease production, the Government has dealt the sector a major blow by refusing planning permission for a new opencast mine at Highthorn at Druridge Bay in Northumberland for a second time.
The mine would have produced nearly three million tonnes of coal and would have been the biggest in the UK.
On September 8, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said in his 17-page final decision letter he found the proposal by Banks Mining to be “not environmentally acceptable,” adding that ‘the substantial
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