Where is kellingley colliery

The rise and fall of King Coal. Super machines buried in last deep pit. Miners remember life at last deep pit. End of deep coal mining. Last miners will receive severance pay. Colliery closes after 90 years.

Miners rally against pit closure. Miners talk of deep pit's closure. Pit closures threaten 1, jobs. Coalfields Regeneration Trust. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It took three hours to pipe concrete into the former mine. Image source, Reuters. Miners at Kellingley finished their final shifts on 18 December, bringing centuries of deep coal mining in Britain to an end.

There has been a new and growing threat to coal over the last 20 years: action to counter global warming. Increasing evidence that the burning of carbon-heavy fuels was exacerbating climate change led to increasing calls for controls on coal use. George Osborne pulled the plug on a Shell-proposed CCS scheme using gas at Peterhead in his autumn statement while Amber Rudd, the energy and climate change secretary, promised to phase out all coal-burning power stations by In the intervening years, Britain will now use production from a series of above-ground open-cast mines, and the low-cost imports it has been using from countries such as Russia and Poland where labour is cheap.

What will not be missed from the deep mines will be the ongoing dangers of rock falls or fires, although safety has dramatically improved since the dark days of — when men and boys were killed by an explosion at a Glamorgan site.

Redundancy terms were often relatively generous, but job prospects for ex-miners have never been great. The regeneration of former pit areas often depended on low-paid jobs in call centres or warehouses — such as the now-infamous Shirebrook facility in Derbyshire run by Sports Direct.

Lisa Nandy, the Wigan MP and shadow energy and climate change secretary, said it was vital Kellingley workers employed by UK Coal and leaving on Friday are properly compensated. This article is more than 5 years old. Reuse this content. Environment Climate crisis Wildlife Energy Pollution.

Now many of the former subterranean workers find themselves in a totally different environment. Once I came here I realised I know nothing about mining. It's a big learning curve for me, catching up with the historical aspects of mining. Josh Young , one of the last miners taken on at Kellingley, has applied for a visa to go to Australia to work in the mines there.

There is nowhere else in this country to carry it out. Rob Cheney has started his own conveyer belt business. Since then it has really picked up. I was proud to be a miner and used to love telling people what I did. We're doing this because we can't be coal miners.