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FINITE: The Climate of Change is an inspiring insider’s view of communities in the UK and Germany putting their bodies on the line to fight back against coal mining. Featuring Coal Action Network alongside local people in the Pont Valley, Durham…
We are an environmental organisation dedicated to ending coal mining and use in the UK for the sake of our collective climate and ecosystems. So you’d think we’d celebrate the claim by Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd that it will finally stop mining coal today at Ffos-y-fran in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. But we’re not. Because the abject failure of Merthyr County Borough Council to stop…
People hailing from Cumbria to London, and everywhere in between, descended on the Mines and Money Conference in London across two days (28th-29th Nov 2023). We demanded that investors stop pouring cash into the mining sector, and instead invest in our collective future. Together with Fossil Free London and other groups, we greeted investors with…
The insurers that have ruled out underwriting the mine are AEGIS Managing Agency, Argenta Syndicate Management, Hannover Re and Talanx. These are the first financial institutions to rule out any involvement with the project, and the win represents a new phase in the campaign to stop the project from going ahead.
Today’s global actions focused specifically on the state-owned China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim), and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Sinosure is said to be in advanced talks with the Ugandan government about providing credit for the project.
On 18th October dozens of protesters staged a sit-in occupation of the plush City of London offices of ten Lloyd’s of London insurers demanding they rule out insuring the proposed West Cumbria coal mine and East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Global mining companies are coming to London soon attempting to find investors in their ruinous projects at the Mines and Money Conference (28th to 30th November). Join our protests against it!
01 September 2022: Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd applies for a S.73 time extension to mine coal from Ffos-y-fran, and to accordingly delay and vary restoration works.
06 September 2022: Planning permission ends for coal mining at the Ffos-y-fran site, after 15 years and 3 months of operations.
12 September 2022: first reports to MTCBC have been made by local residents of coaling beyond the end of planning permission.
Over 30 Welsh NGOs and businesses have signed a letter to Welsh Minister Julie James and Deputy Minister Lee Waters, demanding they draw a line in the sand and announce ban on any further coal mines on Welsh soil. The letter was delivered on 11th October 2023.
Bors is so two faced its unbelievable
Isn’t it amazing, the lengths we have to go to, to force the ”public servants” to do what we, their employers, need them to do!!!
Hand your leaflets out in London at the xr impossible rebellion. It’s what the rebellion is all about— the government’s hypocrisy re fossil fuels
I am tired of this coal mine being referred to as ‘the Cumbrian coal mine’. This sounds like energetic locals have worked to produce this big project. and is garnering huge support. Actually, the locals did nothing. It’s an Australian mine. Why is the world and potential objectors not informed of the truth?
the other unmentioned group is Radiation Free Lakeland who have run the Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole campaign since 2017 – the picture is far bigger than that being painted ..https://keepcumbriancoalinthehole.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/coal-mine-boss-govnt-gdf-advisor-lays-off-staff-to-cut-costs-ahead-of-mine-inquiry-questions-of-epic-cronyism-remain-unanswered/
the greatest number of protesters by far in street demos in past 3yrs are based around Kendal.To get to Whitehaven for 9 am is quite an ask for many of us. any chance making it later? not as if there’s an office there any more which starts at 9am. You will get a better turnout if you do
I’m thinking I would struggle to get there on time from Carlisle, the Whitehaven time and place is maybe a bit difficult? If you have a lot of interested people from further away you might want to make it a bit later/longer, but I guess leave it the same if not 🙂
A new coalmine next to Sellafield (built over a known geological fault already subject to seismic activity) and its stockpile of toxic radioactive nuclear waste, potential new nuclear reactors and a “geological disposal facility” GDF for nuclear waste? What could possibly go wrong?
have to stop coal mining ; climate change is happening in reality choking this Gods good earth ; every year massive forrest fires ice melting got to get greener jobs otherwise more flooding more fires more ice melting dont have to be a rocket scientist to see whats happening –STOP THE MINE .
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