The Social Need for Deep Coal Mining in Europe Should Be Re-Evaluated against Unreasonable Levels of Subsidies: UK DTI Statements on Miners' Health 1999/2000 | Zendy

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The Social Need for Deep Coal Mining in Europe Should Be Re-Evaluated against Unreasonable Levels of Subsidies: UK DTI Statements on Miners' Health 1999/2000

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

energy exploration and exploitation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.435

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 2048-4054

pISSN - 0144-5987

DOI - 10.1260/0144598001491923

Subject(s) - subsidy , tonne , government (linguistics) , coal , payment , coal mining , table (database) , business , agricultural economics , natural resource economics , economics , finance , engineering , waste management , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , market economy , data mining

In 1998 France, Germany, Spain and Turkey provided substantial subsidies for their coal industries. In Germany, production of 42 million tonnes was subsidised at a rate of $120 per tonne. These are listed in Table 1. In the UK, subsidies finished in March 1998 although the UK government will be involved in payments to ex-miners for some years yet.

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