It's Time to Bring Back Coalmines ; Two Years After the Last North East Pit Closed, Calls Are Being Made to Resurrect Mining in the Region. But This Time Experts Believe the Black Stuff Can Be Green and Help a Future of Clean Energy. Environment Reporter Amy Hunt Looks at the Evidence

Evening Chronicle › October 13, 2007

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IN THE first annual Thomas Hepburn Lecture, energy expert Paul Younger said bringing coals to Newcastle should be made a thing of the past and more should be done to use North East coal as an environmentally-friendly fuel.

The world's coal industry was born in the region, with the first industrial-scale coalmines beneath Lobley Hill, Gateshead.

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It's Time to Bring Back Coalmines ; Two Years After the Last North East Pit Closed, Calls Are Being Made to Resurrect Mining in the Region. But This Time Experts Believe the Black Stuff Can Be Green and Help a Future of Clean Energy. Environment Reporter Amy Hunt Looks at the Evidence

And although it died out with the closure of Ellington Colliery in January 2005, there are still vast reserves of coal be...

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