This seems to be one of the most fought and lost causes for compensation. Lots of coalminers have gone to their graves with no compensation even though medical reports have shown on their death they are riddle with disease contributed to by coal mining.

This can hardly be classed as fair. It would seem more solicitors and the like have benefited in fees and payments far higher from the compensation claim than the miners are claiming this is so unfair. It would seem that some solicitors have made a living at the expense of coal miners and their families

It would seem the late prime minster Mr. Blair was adamant in not parting with the government funds to pay miners compensation and yet when the foot and mouth epidemic hit the government had no problem in paying farmers awards for the death of one cow that were higher than they would accept paying a coal miner in compensation for a whole year. This cannot be thought correct or fair.

Coal is mined commercially in over 50 countries. The oldest continuously worked deep-mine in the united kingdom and possibly the world is tower colliery at the northern end of the south west valley’s in the heart of the south Wales coal field This colliery was started in 1805 and at the end of the twentieth century it was bought out by its miners rather than being allowed to be closed.

Technological advancements have made coal mining today more productive than it has ever been. To keep up with technology and to extract coal as efficiently as possible modern mining personnel must be highly skilled and well trained in the use of complex, state of the art instruments and equipment. Future coal miners have to be highly educated and many jobs require four-year College degrees unlike the miners of yester year it makes you wonder if future miners will suffer the same appalling fight to get compensation.

It would seem coal mining all over the world has had the same industrial illnesses but still it would seem the coal boards fight paying compensation. Although less people will be needed with modern technology there will still be miners whose lives are at risk from mining. We cannot expect people to mine and when they become ill look the other way hopefully some of the technology will be able to protect the new miners from the chronic lung disorders their predecessors had to suffer