1975-1979 Approved action review
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The trend changed in 1974, with the expansion of Spanish mining production. Within this changing framework, the Asturian coal industry underwent a double process of company concentration and publification. Hence, due to its size, Hunosa led the mining business in the Central Asturian Basin, consolidating a process that began in the seventies. The public company became the fundamental actor in the evolution of regional mining, thanks not only to its contribution to the Asturian economy as a whole but also to its role as the testing and experimentation centre for guidelines as to negotiating, representation and social and political leadership. During this period, the Government based its policy on the hypothesis of growing power consumption and the greater importance of coal, fuelled by the oil crisis at that time. In 1979, with the second oil crisis and with European mining having advanced in the mining adjustment plans, the National Power Plan in Spain imposed a restrictive framework that determined the aid given to public mining in order to improve results. |
