A county Durham Mining and development firm has called for changes in the planning regulations on coal mining, so it can invest more in renewable energy.
The family owned Banks Group has called on the Government to remove the presumption against coal mining which presently exists, as it reviews planning regulations. The Durham City based firm, which runs surface mines across northern England and Scotland, also has an expanding renewable energy division which has secured a number of multi million pound onshore wind farm projects.
Mr Mark Dowdall, environment and community director at the Banks Group, employing 400, said it was partly through its coal mining operations that it was able to afford to invest in renewable energy research. The firm put its concerns to planning minister Mr Bob Neill, who visited one of its mines in Northumberland, and called for the presumption against coal mining to be removed.
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