Corus has revealed it wants to open a new deep mine in Port Talbot to harvest the rich coal seam beneath its steelworks.The steel giant has been given an exploratory licence to see if a deep mine is feasible - making the works less reliant on coal brought in by sea.
Thanks to parent company Tata's extensive mining experience in India, it now has the in-house expertise it needs.
Corus spokesman Robert Dangerfield said: "The Margam seam runs under the Port Talbot steelworks and there is still a lot of coal there.
Anyone who has followed my blog over the last few years, will know how I feel about the UK's abandonment of deep coal mining. We have closed so many deep mines, not because there was no coal, but because it was cheaper to import it. I stand by my previous view that this was a "short term" decision that was strategically wrong. It's a shame that many communities were destroyed and skills lost, that could now make a great contribution to the UK economy and free us from the dependency on overseas producers.
Full story at ThisisSouthWales
No comments:
Post a Comment