Business Green: Green groups may have to rethink at least some of their oppostion to the UK’s largest mining company, UK Coal, after the firm announced plans to turn 14 of its former mines into wind farms. The company has signed an agreement with alternative energy developer Peel Energy to develop the sites, which could house 54 turbines producing up to 133 MW of energy – enough to power 80,000 homes. Jon Lloyd, chief executive of UK Coal, said that he was convinced “there is significant …