Victory – West Cumbria Coal Mine Rejected! Campaigners celebrate as the decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria is quashed. Today, 13th September, South Lakes Action on Climate Change and Friends of the Earth won their case, against the Conservative Government’s 2022 decision, to allow a new coal mine. Following a hearing in…
Restoration without the climate vandalism Background ERI Ltd launched its pre-application consultation in early 2024 to mine two coal tips in Bedwas, South Wales. The company is proposing to extract a total of around 468,000 tonnes of coal from both tips. This would drive further climate chaos by over 1.3 million tonnes of CO2, as…
Campaign to stop Aberpergwm – the story so far Discovery At the end of November 2021, we noticed the licence application for an extension to ‘Aberpergwm Colliery’ in South Wales on the little-publicised webpage of the Coal Authority (regulator for all coal mining across the UK). This webpage contains a listing of all coal mine…
Horse Hill Supreme Court victory Fantastic news today, 20th June 2024. The UK Supreme Court has set a historical precedent, in overturning a previous ruling, considering the legality of approving a new oil site in Surrey. The ground breaking decision stating that ‘downstream’ emissions (those released when a product is used) must be factored into…
UK election 2024: Parties line up to ban more coal mining FIVE political parties’ manifestos rule out new coal mines in the UK “…we will not grant new coal licences and will ban fracking for good.” “Maintaining the ban on fracking and introducing a ban on new coal mines.” “Cancel recent fossil fuel licences such…
Key facts: Aberpergwm coal mine expansion Coal & refuse to be excavated: 72 million tonnes in total – 30 million tonnes of which will be “middling” coal to be dumped or put back into the coal mine. Coal to be sold: 42 million tonnes during the life of the extension CO2: 100-120 million tonnes of…
We expose Ffos-y-fran secretly floods massive void Local residents kept in the dark Notorious mining company, Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd, removes water pumps in wilful disregard for local residents. The Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, has become a truly cautionary tale on the power of the fossil fuel industry and of…
Charges dropped for activists blocking Ffos-y-fran coal mine as company hides finances XR press release: 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…
Unite to fight for a just steel transition Background Port Talbot Steelworks in South Wales is the largest producer of virgin steel in the UK. Along with British Steel steelworks in Scunthorpe, Port Talbot steelworks is expected to shut down its blast furnaces in 2024 and build a 3 million tonne (MT) electric arc furnace…
Mines and Money Conference – ditch the dirty dollars, invest in our future! People hailing from Cumbria to London, and everywhere in between, descended on the Mines and Money Conference in London across two days (28th-29th Nov 2023). We demanded that investors stop pouring cash into the mining sector, and instead invest in our collective…