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Deep coal mining in the UK

Inquiry by the Energy and Climate Change Committee, 16 June 2014 to 30 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Evidence sessions

  • 9 July 2014: John Grogan, Chairman, Hatfield Colliery, Nigel Yaxley, Managing Director, Association of UK Coal Importers (CoalImp), Philip Garner, Director General, Confederation of UK Coal Producers (CoalPro), Chris Kitchen, General Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers, Dean Thornewell, President of Joy Global Eurasia, Joy Mining Machinery, Professor Kip Jeffrey, First Quantum Minerals Professor of Mining Education, Camborne School of Mines, Philip Pearson, Senior Policy Officer, TUC, gave evidence.
  • 10 September 2014: Matthew Hancock MP, Minister of State for Energy, DECC, and Amy Clemitshaw, Deputy Director, Head Fossil Fuel Generation and CCS Policy