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United Kingdom: The long, slow death of the UK coal industry

2013-04-11 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Nothing better symbolised the passing of a great industry, referred to reverentially as "King Coal", than the lowering of one of the last chunks to have been cut at Maltby colliery next to the grave of the "unknown miner" in the town's cemetery last weekend. His had been the only body to be recovered when a gas explosion ripped through the underground galleries 90 years ago, killing 27 men. Those present wiped away tears, as last rites on an industry that had sustained this community for more than...

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