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Bedwas coal tips: more mining's not the answer

'Energy Recovery Investments Ltd' is proprosing to extract the coal from two large coal tips in Bedwas, Caerphilly, South Wales, claiming that it would use some of the sales of the coal to restore those coal tips later. With over 300 at-risk coal tips registered across South Wales, and financial shortcomings to pay for their remediation, we cannot let the proposed Bedwas coal mine become the method for remediating the remaining coal tips. This would be disasterous for our climate, and represent total contempt for the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act. Local residents are mobilising against this disasterous proposal. Support the local campaign group's crowdfunder.

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Legal opinion pours cold water on Bedwas coal mine plan

We’ve teamed up with our friends at the Good Law Project to obtain expert legal advice, revealing that ERI Ltd’s disastrous proposal to mine two of the Bedwas coal tips is unlikely to get the necessary permissions. If it does, we’re confident we can challenge it…

Support local campaign group resist Bedwas coal mine

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 same mining industry last time it operated in the area.

Bedwas coal tips: Key facts and impacts

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…

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

‘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…

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