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UK Coal

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UK Coal Production Ltd, formerly UK Coal plc, was the largest coal mining business in the United Kingdom. [1]

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British Coal

The British Coal Corporation was a nationalised corporation responsible for the mining of coal in the United Kingdom.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Coal mining in the United Kingdom

Coal mining in the United Kingdom dates back to Roman times and occurred in many different parts of the country.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Daw Mill

Daw Mill was a coal mine located near the village of Arley, near Nuneaton, in the English county of Warwickshire.

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Firedamp

Firedamp is flammable gas found in coal mines.

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FTSE 250 Index

The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Gas engine

A gas engine is an internal combustion engine which runs on a gas fuel, such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas or natural gas.

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Harworth

Harworth is a small town in the county of Nottinghamshire, East Midlands of England.

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Indexation of contracts

In statistics relating to national economies, the indexation of contracts also called "index linking" and "contract escalation" is a procedure when a contract includes a periodic adjustment to the prices paid for the contract provisions based on the level of a nominated price index.

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Kellingley Colliery

Kellingley Colliery was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, east of Ferrybridge power station.

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Keresley

Keresley is a village and civil parish in the City of Coventry, West Midlands, England, about north of Coventry city centre.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange located in the City of London, England.

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Measham

Measham is a large English village in Leicestershire close to the borders with Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (pronounced or; abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

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Pension Protection Fund

The Board of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is a statutory fund in the United Kingdom, intended to protect members if their pension fund becomes insolvent.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Preferential creditor

A preferential creditor (in some jurisdictions called a preferred creditor) is a creditor receiving a preferential right to payment upon the debtor's bankruptcy under applicable insolvency laws.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Privatization

Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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Richard Budge

Richard John Budge (19 April 1947 – 18 July 2016) was a coal mining entrepreneur and chairman of The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisations.

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Shale gas

Shale gas is natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations.

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Thoresby Colliery

Thoresby Colliery was a coal mine in north Nottinghamshire.

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United Kingdom Climate Change Programme

The United Kingdom's Climate Change Programme was launched in November 2000 by the British government in response to its commitment agreed at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

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Welbeck

Welbeck is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, slightly to the south-west of Worksop.

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Wind farm

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Coal

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