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Michael Crossland
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Business Reporter with The Yorkshire Post | Also looks after the paper's weekly environment features page | Views my own.

Available at: michael.crossland@nationalworld.com
Worth noting also that the project has been subject to big job cuts.

Around 2,000 people were thought to have previously worked on the mine – latest figures from Anglo American put the figure at around 1,100.

Story from @chrisburn.bsky.social last year:

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/woo...
Woodsmith Project: More than 1,000 workers to leave £7bn Yorkshire mine scheme as numbers halved
More than 1,000 people currently employed on the creation of a new £7bn Yorkshire mine are to lose their jobs on the project.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The project has been the source of a lot of uncertainty since it was announced last year that development on it would be slowed.

Anglo American’s CEO said in July last year, however, that there was a “good chance” the mine will be operational by 2030.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/woo...
Woodsmith Project: ‘Good chance’ North Yorkshire fertiliser mine will be operational by 2030, says chief executive
The chief executive of Anglo American – the company behind North Yorkshire’s multi-billion pound Woodsmith fertiliser mine – has said that the project could now be operational by 2030, after the firm ...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM