Is ‘King Coal’ making a comeback?

Coal is trickling out of a Yorkshire mine for the first time in 13 years. Hargreaves Services, the country’s biggest independent coal producer, has bought a pit and there are rumblings about re-opening five mines in south Wales.

So is “King Coal” making a comeback? Not as a major producer but as a power generator, courtesy of clean coal technology and some astute marketing.
Five or six companies, including RWE, the German owner of npower and Scottish and Southern, are lining up to build new coal-fired power plants based on environmentally-friendly carbon storage and capture – the new buzzwords in electricity generating technology. Most will depend heavily on imported coal – foreign supplies account for more than two-thirds of the market.

Telegraph