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Mining company, ERI Ltd, is applying to mine nearly half a million tonnes of coal from two coal tips dumped in Caerphilly, South Wales, by the mining industry last time it operated in the area. It’s vital we stop this shameless attempt to exploit the mess left behind by the mining industry to justify yet more mining. If the coal tip mining were to go ahead, it would…
Coal Action Network’s drone footage on Monday 11th March raised the alarm bell about the rising water levels. With this footage, a local resident informed Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council of the rising water levels, only to be told…
The insurance industry found itself in the spotlight last week as a Global Week of Action blossomed across the world. From February 27th to March 3rd 2024, a wave of protests, both online and in the streets, swept through the doors of insurance giants, demanding accountability over their support for polluters and decisive action on climate change.
After a week of peaceful protest around the world, alongside hundreds of groups, our efforts have paid off. Yet another leading insurance company, Probitas, has ruled out insuring the proposed West Cumbria coal mine and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
‘Energy Recovery Investments Ltd’ is proprosing to extract the coal from 3 large coal tips in Bedwas, Caerphilly, South Wales. The company claims that it would use some of the sales of the coal to restore those coal tips later. The coal tips lie above a coal seam, which the company claims it would coincidentally have to dig into to create ‘lagoons’ for processing the coal from the coal tips…
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped all charges against the four Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blockaded the entrance to the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine, last summer with a pink boat. While removing the immediate burden of legal confrontation for the defendants, the decision has left a “crater of unfinished business” in the fight for climate justice and accountability for local residents…
Citing different grounds to the High Court, the Court of Appeal has nevertheless found against our appeal. The Court of Appeal judges disagreed with the judge in the High Court, and decided that current statute limits Welsh Ministers to only deciding whether a new conditional licence may be issued…
Today, 6th February 2024, Coal Action Network was back in court, this time appealing last year’s decision by the court that the Welsh Government couldn’t prevent an extension at Aberpergwm coal mine.
Interesting that the English government are perfectly okay with allowing underground coal mining in Scotland, but not in England.
Energy is a reserved power to the English government, though planning as far as I know is devolved. However, the council can accept or reject a proposal to tear up our countryside while wrecking the planet, Dumfries and Galloway council is a Tory council.
The Scottish government should though step in, they can object to planning going ahead. I will get onto them about this.
Hard to believe that coal mining is even being considered in 2022. I see it’s another Australian company. Scotgold, an Australian company, are already tearing up Scotland to get our high quality gold. Revenues from these planet wrecking practices, will not stay in Scotland, any taxes will be taken by the English government.
I can’t quite understand how you say that coal is being phased out in the UK, can you explain that? Does Scotland not count or matter? Scotland is told they are in the so called union, now it seems though that the UK is reverting back to being ‘Britain’ and we are all ‘British’. Interesting denial of the fact their are four nations in the UK, an unequal partnership to say the very least.
Thanks.
Hetty
Ex English, now Scottish.
Edinburgh.