Ffos-y-fran mining company acting “unilaterally and unlawfully”
Respected senior Barristers, James Maurici KC, and Barrister Toby Fisher have today released a blistering open letter of legal advice that reveals for the first time that the company operating the UK’s largest opencast coal mine, Ffos-y-fran, in South Wales is doing so “unilaterally and unlawfully” without the approval of “any democratically elected bodies or persons”, yet the approach of political representatives in Wales so far means “there will be no consequence for that unauthorised and unconstrained activity”. This approach, the Barristers argue, may even be unlawful. The letter further warns this may fail to prevent “future operators from acting in the same way”.
