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Britain calls time on coal power, steel mills

London | Britain closed a chapter of its storied but carbon-heavy industrial history, as its last coal-fired power plant was switched off and its largest steel mill was shuttered.

Tata Steel on Monday (Tuesday AEST) shut down the final blast furnace at Port Talbot in Wales, a century-old steelworks that was once Europe’s largest, at a cost of almost 3000 jobs.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/europe/britain-calls-time-on-coal-power-steel-mills-20241001-p5kes4