View Full Version : Someone tweeted this graph earlier showing the decline in our coal industry
Brentwood
04-17-2013, 11:31 AM
I don't understand how there was a huge reduction in manpower, but only a small reduction in coal output (relatively)?
machinery replacing humans?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIAQSi_CcAE3iln.jpg:large
Mc Gooner
04-17-2013, 11:38 AM
restricted to) 1964-70 with a Wilson led Labour Government.
You don't hear the loony lefties criticising him or that Government
Classic Jorge
04-17-2013, 11:39 AM
Brentwood
04-17-2013, 11:41 AM
and more profitable, some might still be open
Peter
04-17-2013, 11:42 AM
I imagine they closed the deeper ones first.
Classic Jorge
04-17-2013, 11:43 AM
Of course, not that it's accessible now as the pits have all flooded and/or collapsed.
It's much less embarrassing to ship it in from abroad
will come a time where the technology and costs involved will possibly make them viable again
Mc Gooner
04-17-2013, 11:45 AM
However, the coal was so near the surface that there are now several profitable open cast mines. Go figure
I know where the real blame lay in blocking modernisation. All but one of my immediate family worked in the coal mining industry and the NUM misguidedly thought they were protecting their 'brothers'. That intransigence ultimately led to a permanent "all out" with no colleries to go back to
Hillary
04-17-2013, 11:51 AM
Those pesky H&S rules and living wages...
On the one hand, many people die and are injured due to appalling safety standards abroad, on the other hand - cheaper coal.
redgunamo
04-17-2013, 11:58 AM
7evens
04-17-2013, 12:06 PM
Not a lot of people know that
Mc Gooner
04-17-2013, 12:37 PM
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.3 Copyright © 2024 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.