Transforming Britain's old coalfields into clean energy sources
by Oliver Gordon

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1 September 2026

On 1 September 2026 Reasons to be Cheerful reported: Although the coal industry no longer exists in the town of Gateshead in North East England, its heritage lives on. In March 2023, a council-backed mine water heat network went live, using a six-megawatt water-source heat pump to draw warmth from flooded mine workings roughly 150 meters below the town. The heat is distributed through more than five kilometers of pipe to about 350 homes, plus Gateshead College, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and other buildings. The U.K. government says the initiative will save 72,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over 40 years. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the fields of government and business, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

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