I wanted to follow my farther and brother into coal mining, it never happened for me, heart wrenching. Coal mine closures have left a massive hole than can never be filled, all those jobs.... GONE! The steel industry followed suit. This country is like an empty bottle.
Absolutely spot on mate, I was about 8 when Kellingley shut, I'm about 16 now and I'd go down in the mines within a heartbeat. A brotherhood nothing can replace 🇬🇧
Did Daw mill not hold the record for the biggest production pit in uk? 3.25m tonnes per year. I can see the Daw mill site from my bedroom window and it's gone and they want to replace it with a container depot. UK coal were hammered for killing 4 miners in 2006/7 safety breaches on the part of uk coal. After the fines there was a miraculous Fire at Daw Mill so the closed the pit when there was still an estimated 56million tonnes of coal underground. And yet now we have to buy in coal from abroad what a kick in the nuts for all the hardworking generations who went underground to extract coal in UK
Yes I totally agree with what you are saying mate unlucky I was one of the daw mill miners for ten years who was chucked on the scrap heap aged 32 and diddled out of my rightful entitlements because I developed bi polar disorder and the wanker of a union rep barry shorthose told me to get out of the union office as I was a mental little wanker and negotiate your own redundancy settlements so this is why I was diddled because the union would not represent me says a lot for the crappy union then they wonder why the miners were so bitter
That fire was allowed to happen.... The company then folded wiping out hundreds of millions in debt to the pension scheme for starters. I worked there when it went up. Very convenient for the company. I can't believe that there's never been a government inquiry into it. Luckily nobody died due to the fire.
I worked at Cov, fought many fires, sorry heatings, all controlled, I knew it was a scam, Bloody Tories, rotten two faced Labour. Net Zero was alive then, I do not wish those who engineered the demise of industry..well...
Some professions are just plain dangerous! You cannot regulate “shit happens” out of a lot of jobs. The ignorant U.S. Forest Service has fallen head first into this stupidity. In dangerous jobs, you do the best you can to prevent accidents, but you cannot regulate accidents out to perfect safety.
Hot noisy and dangerous to a newsie when ever worked an industrial job in her life what gives someone as sheltered of a life as you the right to judge anyone who prefers this kind of life
Fucksake just give the workaholics what they want, some challenging work! Its not a lot to ask for when it grows the local economy and in theory brings the crime rate down.
Honestly, reading some of the semi literate comments and replies here is in itself an education. First school spelling, no grammar or punctuation and idiotic sentence structure. I’d like to think the commentators are unassociated with mining and miners as they give them a poor image.
@@andrewh5457 do you really think it will be cost affective to dig coal out the ground in the uk with the cost of labour plus the unions running the show
@@jamesford4750 I know you're right, but I'd like to think that the unions wouldn't be running the show any more, also ,all the people employed in the mines, and associated industries would be earning, paying tax and insurance and spending, also it would make us a bit more energy independent, but you're right it won't happen.
Outdated not in China Australia plus numerous other countries China are building powerstations every week but not the UK clean coal technology the way forward
