We know also that thousands of tonnes of the stockpiled coal will deteriorate.
We have stockpiled about 60 million tonnes of coal, yet we all know that old-age pensioners will die from hypothermia this winter.
A great deal of concern has been expressed about the numbers of applications which are stockpiled with local authorities, waiting to be approved.
When the miners produce more coal it is stockpiled, bank interest charges increase and pensioners run the risk of dying of hypothermia.
No clothing capable of protecting the wearer from the effects of fall-out is manufactured or stockpiled in this country.
For example, bricklayers are idle, bricks are stockpiled and people remain without homes.
It would not be in the national interest to divulge the quantity of hardwood that is being stockpiled.
When pressed, he could not say what articles were to be stockpiled, or the extent to which they had been stockpiled.
