Despite that, the Government want to take away thousands more jobs by importing coal.
For example, some countries need to import coal because there are no indigenous supplies.
If we import coal, how much does it cost?
Plans should be made to import coal from non-union foreign ports.
It was also extensively used for importing coal and wool from Australia.
It had discontinued the use of charcoal and begun to import coal from Pennsylvania around 1870.
He says that it's terrible that Britain is importing foreign coal.
Utilities increasingly are importing coal at a time the moribund British economy is losing 8,000 jobs a week.
In its early years the dock was used mainly to import coal from the Northeast of England.
Another siding led to a nearby brickworks which used the railway to import coal.