Coal Action Network's campaign to stop the Aberpergwm coal mine

Check out our campaign milestones to stop the Aberpergwm coal mine expansion from November 2021 until now, with our judicial review challenge to the Welsh Government and UK Coal Authority regulator.

Whitehaven coal mine decision due

Several years ago West Cumbria Mining Ltd, backed by an Australian company applied to extract coal from a new underground coking coal mine under the sea by Whitehaven, Cumbria. A decision is now due, but there are some using the appalling invasion of Ukraine by Russia to justify more mining in the UK.

Licenced: the Aberpergwm coal mine extension

On 25th January 2022, whilst the Welsh and UK Governments continued to argue over which could stop it, The Coal Authority approved the full licence for an underground coal mine extension to Energybuild Ltd. The company can now mine a further 40 MILLION TONNES of coal until 2039, emitting an est. 100 MILLION TONNES of CO2...
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New Coal Action Network report ~ Coal in Steel: Problems and solutions

Coal in Steel provides background information to campaigns against proposed new coking coal mines and considering how coal needs to be phased out of steel production.

Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine, South Wales. Credit: Break Free from Fossil Fuels

COAL & the UK

The UK still extracts and imports coal, primarily through opencast mining methods, for steel and cement production as well as for power stations.

There are several new coal mines proposed in the planning system awaiting approval, and these have been delayed and contested by grassroots community campaigns.