Publications
A selection of information resources created by or contributed to by Coal Action Network
The planning playbook
Challenging extractive applications near you
This guide helps communities navigate the planning system to oppose extractive applications, such as quarries. It draws on CAN’s experience since 2008 of standing alongside communities to face down opencast coal mine applications.
Coal mine restoration in South Wales
Coal Mine Restoration in South Wales report presents fresh research and analysis on the controversies, broken promises, and present-day liabilities surrounding the restoration of seven opencast coal mines in South Wales.
Journey of a UK coal mine application: a guide
This is a step-by-step illustrated guide as to how a company gets the legal stuff they need in place before they can start a new coal mine, or extend an existing one.
Coal in Steel
This is a step-by-step illustrated guide as to how a company gets the legal stuff they need in place before they can start a new coal mine, or extend an existing one.
West Cumbrian coal: the hot investment
Welcome to EMR Capital Resources Fund 1, LP., a private equity management firm based in a Cayman Islands tax haven. We might sound less local than ‘West Cumbria Mining Ltd’, but we are the company calling the shots… [PARODY]
Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance
This book highlights the colonial entanglements of coal and warns of false green solutions – relying on hydrogen for ‘green steel’, for instance, and on renewables for ‘clean electricity’ – that don’t challenge colonialism, capitalism, and the state.It centres the voices of affected communities and warns of ‘false green solutions’.
Slow Death in Siberia
At the heart of the report are testimonies of the indigenous Shors, a Turkic people, whose survival and beliefs are intimately tied to the nature around them which is being devestated by coal mining. Almost 40% of the coal from the Kusbass region in Siberia is bound for the UK and European Union
A report by Coal Action Network and FERN.
