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Metro Mayor Dan Norris unveils Heat from Mines initiative at Radstock Museum
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30/01/2024
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Well we've got a long history of mine working. There are a hundred former pits across the west
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of England and particularly in the north east Somerset area of course. I know that I live near
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Pensford but people will remember that there have been mine workings in places like Bishop Sutton,
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you come down further to Poulton, Rivington and Kilminsden here and that's quite recently some
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of that, you know since the 1970s they've only relatively recently closed down. But while they
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are a fantastic thing, they had a great tradition, there's great pride, they were also backbreaking
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and tough but what I'm excited about is that there's now this potential because technology
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has moved on to use the water that's flooded those former mines right across the region and
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north east Somerset in particular which has warmed up and is full of energy and to get that energy
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out and heating homes, heating schools, heating hospitals not just in a more sustainable way but
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actually a more cost-effective way and we've just heard today about the Hinkley Sea nuclear power
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reactor building program being much more expensive than people thought. That energy means that energy
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will be very expensive, it won't be cheap, it'll be in some way sustainable but not totally but it
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won't be cheap and I believe that getting this heat out of mines will not only be the sustainable
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and green thing to do but actually a very cost-effective thing to do that will provide
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more affordable energy for people. So it's very exciting and potentially thousands of individuals
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and homes right across the west of England but particularly in north east Somerset
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will benefit from that and that's why we've got £1.5 million now to start these studies,
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to start drilling some boreholes so that we can turn that potential into something
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that is reality in the future.
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