Write to your MP to stop the Whitehaven coal mine proposal
August 5th 2022
The decision to stop or allow the proposed 61.4 million tonne coal mine has been delayed. We are keen to apply as much pressure to stop the mine as possible. Please join us in writing to your MP now to ask that they do everything in their power to stop the mine.
Key facts: Whitehaven coal mine
August 3rd 2022
Coal to be excavated: 61.4 million tonnes of coal in total and 2.93 million tonnes of coal per annum (at full capacity)
Coal to be sold: 55.6 million tonnes of coal in total and 2.78 million tonnes of coal per annum (at full capacity)…
Lochinvar proposal – a licence to harm
July 18th 2022
New Age Exploration Ltd propose to extract up to 33.7 million tonnes of coking coal for steelworks in the UK and beyond between 2025 and 2051 near Carlisle, in South West Scotland. This may worsen local air quality, reduce the value of nearby residential properties, make local roads more dangerous with HGV traffic, and will emit around 73 million…
Anti-coal workshop – Earth First! Summer gathering
July 14th 2022
We will be running a workshop at this year’s Earth First! Summer gathering, which runs Wednesday 31st till Monday 5th in the South West of England.
Energy capacity market consultation response
June 28th 2022
We are concerned that the 2024 coal phase-out date is being used by the UK Government to deflect criticism for its support of using coal up until that date, when what we need is the most rapid phase-out of coal that is possible as the UK careers further from its climate targets…
Whitehaven coal mine decision due – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is no excuse to mine
June 14th 2022
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.
Utilities struggle to insure new coal power, contracts reveal
June 9th 2022
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Aberpergwm and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act
May 31st 2022
There is a law in Wales that helps the country all work together to improve the environment, the economy, the society and the culture. For people, for the planet. For now, and for our future. It is called the Well-being of Future Generations Act. Is it compatible with a coal mine extension at Aberpergwm?
Coal Action Network protest outside of Lloyd’s of London AGM
May 24th 2022
Last Thursday, 18th May, Coal Action Network protested outside of Lloyd’s of London, for their role in insuring the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) and the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).