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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.
To begin with, we need to be scaling down coal extraction for use as fuel, whether “reclaimed” or newly mined, it’s all just as bad for the environment. Secondly, the industry has demonstrated time and time again that promises to restore sites after extracting as much profit as possible are worthless, and unenforceable. If we are to allow further coal extraction on the basis of “We will clean up our mess afterwards”. Something that I don’t believe that we should do anyway. The companies should be required to deposit some sort of secure bond in advance to pay for subsequent clean up operations. No bond, no permission, no exceptions.
Well done Coal Action Network for exposing this fraudulent and massively under capitalized project, with no likely community and environmental benefits. I’m amazed that ERI thought that they could ‘Green Wash’ their proposal and no doubt prioritize the open cast extraction where nearly all the profit lies. As for any commitment to landscape the site after the works are complete; how many Councils hold an applicant to their original planning conditions?
A new energy revolution is happening with the nature of energy conversion moving away from the heat released from burning fossil fuels. Future power stations will not be large, thermal steam generators, with a maximum efficiency of just 48 % when using coal. More than half of all primary energy is wasted, whilst adding the excess heat from the secondary cooling loop to the sky, river or sea.
I believe that Fusion will also make Fission obsolete and that various approaches to the Hydrogen-Helium energy cycle will create a new status Quo, allowing de-centralized and pollution free power without the plant volume and visual aspects of Wind and PV farms. All the scientific evidence indicates that this is possible but our politicians and companies are blinkered by the technologies of the past and present.