First deep coal mine in the UK for 30 years

[@samensor8218]

They got the title wrong it’s the first working coal mine in 5 years.

[@playinggames7478]

Travel and goods haulage is one of the biggest pollutants. Buy British and make what we can here. Makes more sense and is green AF!

[@pizzamad3334]

Shameful you turned up at his door. Gets the pits back open.

[@casper1240]

Get the Mine operational as soon as possible ,people are pissed off with all this green nonsense .get the mine working again

[@chriscars3578]

This should open they should not have closed most of the mines in the uk . Stop importing coal. and build carbon low power stations

[@MrPlanetthanet]

Excellent. Push for British coal. Ban foreign imports

[@jammiedodger7040]

We should open lots of coal mine in Britain

[@johnwhyte.5655]

Open them all back up . Buy British make someome else redundent. :-)

[@chihuahuadachshund4264]

Prawn Cocktail I hope so mate

[@engineslovetostartmatthew]

If only

[@t_mandry]

Make China redundant

[@lokeumkerd437]

We should never go back to using coal. It’s literally an ancient outdated form of creating energy and is the most polluting source

[@mrfrisky2997]

@@lokeumkerd437 Do you even know what this is all about ffs... it's not for energy - its to make steel. The UK currently imports coal from Australia, China, India etc - would you rather they had the jobs and the massive carbon footprint of coal imports from the other side of the world??

[@DanSirGalahad]

This news story should be a celebration for Cumbria and for Britain. Absolutely disgraceful reporting by channel 4. The long march is ever present.....

[@zigzogoid4591]

To keep some steel making capacity in this country, which is a strategic and economic necessity, coal is essential to make it. Do we want to be completely reliant on imports, and therefore susceptible to the the violent fluctuations of price and supply?

[@tanjoy0205]

Is it for the small steam preservation coal needs

[@Angloman516]

BBC the miners friend making great play of this on their news channel! Nothing on KZbin, it is needed for making steel, but the Islington centric Beeb wouldn't know about that. It is a necessity for the immediate economic future of this country. Such is the positive cosy beeb to enhance the capabilities of UK.

[@jammiedodger7040]

Zero emissions is stupid

[@leedavies7580]

This is a anthracite coal mine for steel making & furnace work ,the coal will be turned into anthracite coke . Carbon capture can be achieved when it’s burned using scrubbers ,the tech is there just it’s expensive and complicated , as for making steel without coal that’ll be interesting to see!

[@leedavies7580]

Foot note ,divers use co2 scrubbers on rebreathers to eliminate co2

[@warnz9701]

@Argument Starter 2.0 So why would you want to?

[@richardcowley4087]

Lignite is baked into Coke to increase the carbon content to be used to make steel

[@richardcowley4087]

CO2 is not the climate control knob Methane is not the climate control knob

[@christinespencer406]

This coal mine gives the local people a chance to have a descent life .Remember the big producers of coal America and china are still using coal as its biggest energy provider

[@joe18425]

GET THE COAL MINES UP AND RUNNING. WHILST WE STILL HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE FROM THE OLD SCHOOL MINERS AVAILABLE. IM POSITIVE THEY WOULD BE ONBOARD TO SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE.

[@robertclayton6289]

Poor excuse when Australian and the USA export so much coal to China India and South East Asian markets whilst the UK has No Pits Left We’re still sitting on millions of tonnes of coal but ex miners and entire community’s have to work for poor wages in warehouses Once there were many productive,busy mines....now there just retail parks and slave trade warehouses Miners sold down the river by Tory governments....same old same old 😢😢😢😢😢

[@stevenwoodhouse2725]

An absolute scandal we need jobs like this in the UK they have even been betrayed by labour traditional supporters of miners. The coal would have been moved by rail so railwaymen and women have lost out to. The steel industry will still need the coal so let's ship it in from Australia, South Africa, Brazil or somewhere else as far away as possible and clean up the environment that way. It's a joke. Families in an unemployment black spot who thought they had go good jobs have now had their future put back in jeopardy. The council will look at it again and surprise surprise they will rescind planning permission.

[@barnsmithers4987]

Its more eco-friendly to produce coal here then import coal on a ship that burns fossil fuels coal also a requirement for making various products such as steel until further developments in manufacturing so it makes environmental and economical sense to open a coal mine here rather than abroad.

[@kdfarms8337]

Why should they answer the phone when going to there house and pestering them i think they should open the mine and its not carbin nutral but its still less emissions in travel and if we dont mine it here they will still import it from somewhere else so whats the big matter

[@nottmfunguy]

We need coal, this is an immediate need for industry and energy. Sadly the environmental lobby will shout and scream, but where do we get our energy needs from now in the present day. It will take years to build nuclear power stations. Wind power, sorry that is not hardly enough to power a nation. The only good side is we do have some mothballed coal fired power stations here and there.

[@elrondofrivendell701]

The mine is not for burning coal, it is for coking coal

[@caitlinspencer5487]

Carbon free coal no .But you need the coal to produce steel so America or any other country will produce so what’s the difference

[@caitlinspencer5487]

Yes there will be carbon but there is a thing in carbon capture.use the coal but cathedral the carbon .We at present are storing millions of tons of nuclear waste never knowing when the waste will be safe .

[@RW-nr6bh]

From what I know about the coal industry, which I used to work in, the whole project is pure fantasy. If I'm wrong I will not do a Cummings and ammend this.

[@Deludedposting]

The UK we mine black cold but in Germany they mine lignite brown coal the worst

[@grumpyoldgit8254]

Germany is opening mines all the time, and their mining machinery manufacturers and investing heavily in r&d ,so don't talk about hypocrisy because we open 1 little poxy mine, work out how to capture the CO2 from the burning coal and we have jobs and cheaper energy, everybody was warned in 1984 what would happen if we allowed the UK mining industry to collapse and now look where we are, being held to ransom by the energy suppliers, because there is no cheaper alternative.

[@user-vv9zo4sc4k]

Channel 4 alarmists climatistas

[@nate8551]

I guess this never went ahead

[@constructioneerful]

It's still going ahead: the UK government , host of the upcoming COP26, just gave it its blessing.

[@grahampartridge9335]

Maybe they want the hole to dump nuclear waste in

[@michaelgoulding6609]

when coal is mined out underground, as the hydrolic machines move towards the coal face with the coal cutter. it allowes the roof to collapse in behind, just leaving the roadways either side of the coal face open, which the coal face can be 100 of yards wide, but because its that far underground or under the sea bed, (around a mile down) it wont cause any subsidence or leave any huge underground spaces, so most local people want it open asp.