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Committee takes forward CAN’s key recommendations

Background

In February, CAN gave oral testimony to the Climate Change, Energy, and Infrastructure Committee (CCEIC) on the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill. Alongside FOE Cymru, we gave a candid account of the strengths, weaknesses, and pitfalls of the Bill. Watch our session in full.

CAN sways key Committee

The CCEIC is the first committee scrutinising The Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill passing through the Senedd, giving it significant scope to shape the Bill at an early stage. CAN successfully persuaded the CCEIC during our oral testimony to make key recommendations to the Welsh Government to improve the Bill in its Stage 1 report:

Recommendation 4

The Welsh Government should provide further assurance that:

  • existing planning legislation, the Welsh Government’s coal policy and Planning Policy Wales are sufficiently robust to ensure that proposals to remediate a disused tip involving coal extraction will not be permissible unless they are for the purpose of ensuring public safety, and
  • the Welsh Government’s coal policy will prevent any coal extracted during remediation work from being sold for the purpose of burning

– Stage 1 report

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