The Price of Coal

Programme Outline

This programme covers:

• The provision of one form of energy – coal – and the effect of mining on the environment.
• Protests about the development of the new Selar opencast site.
• How coal was mined in the past and today.
• How an opencast site is opened up, exploited and restored.
• The landscape created by deep mining and the environmental issues surrounding the 1990s’ opencast sites.