CLEAN COAL part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2023
- Onlwyn coal washery is situated at the head of the Dulais Valley, South Wales, UK. It washes and processes the coal ready for distribution, extracted from the nearby Nant Helen open cast coal mine, situated on the hillside above the small village of Onllwyn.
Documentary filmmaker, Roger Tiley spent the last year of production capturing the workforce as they faced closure.
A long history of coal mining in the area would come to a close when the washery finishes production.
I have heard that Merthyr Tydfil have been granted planning permission to keep their wash-plant open.
Saves buying it in from abroad.. All makes perfect sense to me!
hello from australia.... i worked underground in australian coal mines for 38 years.... been retired now for 3 x years...
Bring back Welsh Steam Coal, us steam Locomotive people are crying out for it!! None of this oily foreign nonsense..🚂👍K
Steam Train 🚂 preserved lines still need coal it's a shame if we can't get UK coal 🤨🧐
Awesome, heart-felt and emotional documentary! Nice to see those men again. Well done Rog.
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Another brilliant video Roger 🏴
New Zealand's heritage steam railway miniature and full scale runs on either 100% Welsh or a Combination, could immediately tell it was the Welsh Coal we use 110%. Will be missed when it closes as it has some of the finest coal for steaming big and small ever.
Realy interesting to watch i work in the steel industry have done for 23 years and it saddens me to see this and what the government is doing to the country and our children's future
There is 3 trillion tones of known coal reserves in the UK. It's amazing to think about that.
So pleased you've gone to the trouble of making this. I can relate to it in so many ways. I was a blacksmith/welder at a coal mine in NE England until a certain woman shut us down.
In later years and through a hobby, I began talking to and would sometimes mix with the team running a large opencast mine for UK Coal. I distinctly remember the staff pointing to distant wind turbines and telling me that those would see them out of a job. Their vision, and that of ex-miners from the deep mines gives a unique insight into the truth about coal and what is being ignored for 'cleaner' things.
Coal just isn't clean; we can understand the bias towards coal from those whose livelihood depends on it, and yet that does not change the facts around how dirty it is. At face value, just look at all the black muck, but when burnt for energy, it is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, with its carbon, nitrogen and sulfur content causing huge pollution, and well-known disastrous results for the climate. On-shore wind is indeed the future, since it is economical as well as sustainable.
@@alanparmenter FYI Wales has 400yr of coal to supply to anyone who needs it, yes NCB used clean burning tech since 1985 !!! So don't give me any bull crap about it burns dirty.........how come honda got is catalytic converter on cars? (1990) NCB Uk sold the lot off !!!
Don't be a total tosser! You I & rest of know that if you pull the government funding from solar & wind power it would be for the most expensive power generation & at least 4x more price to the customer. Try not bullshit people will you.... face the facts. Climate change my arse..... where's the data & proof ? You got none that been proven true yet.
After open cast mining has happen the area can be used for many things, land fill then many years later housing development where it would never have happened if it was not for the first deep shaft mining then open cast .. land fill or hazardous waste site... sealed. A full cycle of use creating many jobs, how is green jobs going to create more jobs with government money?? NEVER!!!
@@alanparmenter So do you have a feasible replacement for coal? Because photocells and pinwheels are a joke
Wind turbines didn't take their jobs, communist central planning and government subsidies to useless renewables that mandates that they lose their jobs. And now the UK has some of the most expensive electricity on earth. 🙄
Proper men doing proper jobs 👍
These are real working men! Closing this place down is criminal
Our so called "Government " destroying the industry is the biggest crime
No true word said from these men, and it’s the second time I’ve heard said “ why is it just the Uk trying to go 100%green” the other miner was from the big K in Yorkshire.
Why no
Dates on anything. Difficult to understand the timeline.
So very sad, I used to shunt the coal trains coming down from Onllwyn at Margam. When they stopped, along with other coal traffic, it put a massive dent in our industry, one which its never recovered from. I think our government will rue the day they killed coal eventually.
Very true
People are so easily controlled tome to tell these leaders who’s there boss
How sad
Clean coal is a oxymoron.
I'm from fife and the closing of the pits killed this area and it's still felt today it's a sin