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Post by winder on Dec 10, 2004 14:29:35 GMT -5
Am a new visitor to this site after many look ins on the Miners Advice site. My big grouse is seeing Lorry after Lorry coming from Kellingly Colliery in West Yorks, full of spoil to fill in the unused sleeping giant at Thorne. This is criminal to see when the Labour Party in opposition said they would support the coal industry. UK Coal already have it earmarked for rental purposes and are not interested in mining. Also today the government are thinking of using some sort of underground storage for nuclear waste. Why then couldnt they have kept open some of the mines they said never had a future.
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Post by Wheldale on Dec 19, 2004 14:57:25 GMT -5
I used to live near thorne colliery. So its come to the end, I was wondering what was happening to the mine. Its a crying shame about the mine, what next? Will hatfield be filled in? All that coal lost for ever. Will we have to rely on Nuclear? Imported coal? Imported electric from france. Its a crying shame.
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Post by winder on May 10, 2005 8:24:23 GMT -5
Late reply Wheldale, lorries are still filling in the shafts with spoil from Big K. Typical gaffers have got there sums wrong and should have finnished months ago. I myself started at Hatfield has a fitter in 1980. Went to Thorne from 1986 to 1988, as a Winder Driver. British Coal said they were shutting it when the union refused flexible working. We all got finnished and they then contracted it out to AMCO on a care and maintenance basis. I got set back on till 20003. Rossington manager Geoff Mountain smilefully came to tell us UK Coal were then closing it again thus stopping Richard Budge getting his hands on it. Budge is still at Hatfield waiting for private and government money to reopen Hatfield. Have been told this is imminent. Dave Holt.
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Post by John on May 10, 2005 9:10:20 GMT -5
It's ironic about nuclear power stations. Ove here Stateside, the power companies haven't built any plants since 3 mile Island accident. There are no plans to build any more in the near or far future due to tha nature of nuclear accidents, even though the government want them to build more of them. So far, the generating companies have several "super" coal fired stations on the drawing boards to replace older inefficient units still operating. Coal is still "King" over here, I'm not sure now, but I think the largest, ie longest, highest and largest production longwall is in this country breaking every record in the books! When I drive down to Thayer, in Missouri, just 35 miles from here, I often see coal trains a mile or more longer going north from Arkansas to the power stations in Missouri.
It's also ironic, when I was growing up in Nottingham, you didn't have to go far to see a pit headstocks, now there's a whole generation who don't even know what a colliery is or was!
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