Environmental campaigners have been evicted from a site near an opencast mine in Shropshire.
The company said the opencast mine was likely to yield about 100, 000 tonnes less coal than expected.
And the old Orgreave site itself is being reclaimed, just as soon as the opencast mine project finishes.
He said the proposed opencast mine would only go down 20m (65ft), with the disaster site 145m (470ft) below.
They are former workers in the pit, Asia's largest opencast mine, which has been turned into a grim tourist attraction.
And coal prices have fallen, with a harsh impact coming close to home, hitting the companies that operate Scottish opencast coal fields.
The course is being built on the site of a former opencast mine and will include a grandstand for up to 1, 000 spectators.
The 22-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday after stopping work at the site of UK Coal's opencast mine at The Wrekin, near Wellington.
The inquiry followed the planning application made by Miller Argent for the reclamation of land which also includes extracting coal by opencast methods.
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Plans to operate an opencast mine in north Staffordshire show a "lack of respect" for miners buried in a 19th Century pit disaster, campaigners say.
Scotland still produces more coal than Wales, but everything comes from opencast while the bulk of English coal still comes from the underground pits in the north of England.
He said Scottish Coal had been operating at an opencast mine in the area for 14 years and this latest development would see it continue for another eight years at least.
The Gleision tragedy threw a spotlight on the nature of some of the small drift mines that were once dotted around Wales, but the reality of modern day opencast mining is as far removed as you get can from a pit like Gleision.
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