Comments on: Bedwas coal tip: a new frontier for coal in South Wales?

By: A.L.

A.L. — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:12:50 +0000

As we know these companies promises are just a puff of smoke, just look at Bryngwyn Colliery Engine House. The council fell for the false promise that the building would be looked after & made safe, a monument of the past. As soon as the houses were up the building company vanished and all that was left was a wire fence surrounding the old engine house building. Its a disgrace they can get away with it.
There seems to be no comeback when the company vanishes and profits have been given to shareholders, if the tip reclamation gets passed we need a stronger council.

By: Adam East

Adam East — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:16:31 +0000

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.

By: Christopher Clifton

Christopher Clifton — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:29:04 +0000

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.