page_title: Richard Budge
section_title: Coalpower
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Budge / Career / Coalpower
caption_attribution_description: English: Hatfield Mine The mine opened again in 2008 and is now producing coal under Richard Budge's Powerfuel company. Now under ownership of a management buy out in 2013
context_page_description: Richard John Budge was a coal mining entrepreneur and chairman of The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisations.
context_section_description: He formed the company, Coalpower, in 2001. It bought the Hatfield Colliery, at Stainforth, in April 2004 from Hatfield Coal Company, helped by £7m of state aid. In late 2003, Coalpower went into administration.
caption: Hatfield Colliery in 2009, site of the 1996 film Brassed Off
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