Environmental impacts of coal mining and coal utilization in the UK
Abstract
Coal has remained the main source of energy in the UK from 1700 to the end of 1970s, and it still plays an important role in the power generation. The paper discusses the current coal consumption in the UK together with environmental impacts of coal mining, coal processing and coal utilisation for power generation. Since coal remains the single biggest contributor to greenhouse gases worldwide, methods for minimising environmental impacts of coal combustion are described in this paper including systematic application of the principles of clean coal technologies financed by the private sector.