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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch a nationwide safety check on all coal mines as miners convene in Beijing to discuss a curb on supply, the official People’s Daily said.
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The country’s work safety watchdog said the inspection will last from March to the end of this year, targeting coal mines that are either involved in illegal mining or are not able to meet safety standards.
“We will completely shut down coal mines that have produced more coal than the government have allowed,” the State Administration of Work Safety said. “Some of the coal mines repeatedly ignored warnings from us and continued to dig in regions that are deemed unsafe.”
The news came as China’s top coal producers meet on Tuesday to discuss plans for stabilizing output this year, the official Shanghai Securities News reported.
The meeting organized by the China Coal Association will assess current operations and explore further measures to ensure stable output, the newspaper said in a report on its website on Monday.
Reporting by Meng Meng and Beijing Monitoring Desk; Editing by Richard Pullin
Residents in West Yorkshire have raised concerns about plans to build the HS2 rail line through a former mining area, after an eight-metre-long crack opened up in the ground along the proposed route.
Plans for the Yorkshire section of the high-speed train line were changed earlier this year, taking it to the east of Sheffield instead of through the Meadowhall shopping centre, on the city’s border with Rotherham.
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But people living in Crofton, near Wakefield, have argued that the company has failed to consider the effect that the area’s coal mining legacy could have on costs.
Jonathan Pile, a health and safety consultant and anti-HS2 campaigner, discovered the crack while walking his dog in August. He contacted the Coal Authority when it became clear that the hole was getting bigger.
He said the government agency attended the following day, fenced off the area and posted danger signs. They then filled the hole with 15 tonnes of stone.
In a letter to Pile, the Coal Authority stated: “Recorded deep mining has taken place within the zone of influence of the fissure and therefore the Coal Authority accepts liability in respect of this ground collapse.”
A timeline of the project, published by HS2 Ltd, shows that the company does not plan to conduct a detailed ground investigation until shortly before construction begins. A spokesperson for the company said it was confident “the historical mining features in Crofton pose no major risk to the construction programme”.
The area around Crofton, which was near the Nostell and Sharlston collieries, was heavily mined and includes many filled in open cast mines. As a result of subsidence, groups of houses were demolished in the 1980s and 1990s.
“As with any Yorkshire coal mining community, they dug under houses, they dug everywhere. But HS2 will just throw money at the problem,” said Pile, whose family home is 265 metres from the proposed high-speed train line.
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The decision to scrap plans torun the HS2 line through the Meadowhall centre, and instead take it east of Sheffield, came after similar concerns were raised that the ground beneath the site was “mush” and riddled with old mine workings.
Risk documents published by HS2 Ltd state that there is a 68% likelihood of the cost of the project increasing as a result of new information coming to light about mining in the area.
An HS2 spokesperson said they were aware of “the rich history of coal mining in the area” and that they had conducted assessments on the suitability of the land.
“The findings from these studies were taken into account, alongside many other factors, during the route selection process,” they said. “We are confident that the historical mining features in Crofton pose no major risk to the construction programme.
“We continue to engage with the Coal Authority as we progress the more detailed design of the railway, and will carry out a programme of ground investigation works prior to construction. This will inform the engineering measures we will put in place to safely manage the presence of historical coal mining beneath the railway.”