The first near carbon-free gas fired power plant in the UK is set to begin operating within a year in response to government efforts to stimulate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The ...

Ten years since the closure of Hatfield Colliery in Stainforth, the penultimate mine to close in Yorkshire, "people don't forget", says ex-miner Keith Allsopp. "It's a mining community and ...

At least £1m will need to be spent on the "unsafe" Hatfield Colliery site after its headstocks were given Grade II listed status, a council has warned. The pit, which has been run by an employee-owned ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Hatfield Colliery will stop producing coal with immediate effect after being unable to sell its coal following the sharp rise in the UK's carbon tax, Prospect union said ...

Former miner David Nixon is working to record recollections of day-to-day life down the pit. He speaks to Laura Reid about why the essence of mining “deserves to be remembered” and understood through ...

2 April 2007 – Hatfield Colliery near Doncaster in the UK, which closed in 1994 when the coal industry was privatised, has become the ninth deep shaft coal mine operational in the nation. Rising ...

KPMG was brought in to sell the assets of Powerfuel, owned by coal mining entrepreneur Richard Budge and Russian coal group KRU, after talks with 2CO Energy to take a stake in the company broke down.