Coal, Environment and Health

Peter James

Chapter 3 in The Future of Coal, 1984, pp 63-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Concern at the environmental effects of coal production and use is not new. As long ago as 1257, the English Queen Eleanor is reported to have left Nottingham as a result of smoke from coal-burning and, in 1306, the practice was banned on pain of death by Royal proclamation — apparently without success. Control measures were introduced in many European countries during the centuries which followed, and conditions were sometimes attached to mining leases — as with an English colliery of 1791, whose responsibility for reclamation was specified in considerable detail, such as an instruction that the land be‘sown with Rye grass seeds’.1

Keywords: Sulphur Dioxide; Coal Mining; Coal Combustion; Coal Production; Coal Preparation Plant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17383-9_3

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