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No additional coal extraction in the Pont Valley!!!

1st July 2020 By coalaction

PRESS RELEASE Controversial opencast coal mine rejected: campaigners celebrate

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Video: Prof. Paul Ekins: New U.K. coal mines do not ‘save’ CO2

29th June 2020 By coalaction

Two mining companies are trying to greenwash their new plans for coal mines in the U.K

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Update: Coal planning hearings

25th June 2020 By coalaction

We’ve had some good news and some news News The extension proposed by Banks Group to the existing mine in the Pont Valley will be heard by the first remote planning hearing by Durham County Council on Wednesday 1st July at 9.30am. It is the second item on the agenda of the council, you can […]

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State harassment of indigenous activists in Colombia

12th June 2020 By coalaction

Coal and Covid-19 activism draws hostility from institutions meant to protect indigenous leaders

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Object to a new 50-year coking coal mine in Cumbria

11th June 2020 By coalaction

There’s another chance to stop this mega-polluter from producing coal until 2070.

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Woodhouse Colliery: the facts

4th June 2020 By coalaction

If approved the mine would produce 2.78 million tonnes of coking coal a year for fifty years

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Coal round-up June 2020

4th June 2020 By coalaction

Decisions on coal mines still pending despite reduced coal demand & power station closures

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UCL Economist Prof Paul Ekins O.B.E refutes coal company greenwash

28th April 2020 By coalaction

Prof Paul Ekins O.B.E, a leading resource economist and policy advisor, explains why coal companies are talking “economic nonsense”

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Pickets against coal mining in Kuzbass

13th March 2020 By coalaction

Today, March 13, Ecodefense and Fridays for Future hold a protest rally in Novokuznetsk against coal mining

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These stories. Us people. Solidarity.

2nd March 2020 By coalaction

The exhibition brings together experiences of communities from Russia, Colombia, County Durham and South Wales as they live alongside, and take on, the opencast coal industry.