Yorkshire coal

The owners of Hatfield Colliery, Powerfuel Mining, were unable to raise the funds required to build the proposed clean coal power station on the site and the company was placed in administration at the end of 2010. In May 2011 with the formation of a new company, Hatfield Colliery Ltd, this has now been sold to Entero BV, a recently established Dutch holding company with funding from ING bank. This should secure the future of the colliery and the 400 people employed here.