Banks Group want to remove 800,000 tonnes of coal and 400,000 tonnes of fireclay from 112 hectares at Dewley Hill, which sits to the North of the A69 near Throckley, on the Newcastle/ Northumberland border. Recently signs have been erected in the area which saying…
Campaign to Protect Pont Valley and other local people are delighted that Banks plans to further exploit the Pont Valley were dashed. On the 1st July Durham County Council planning committee voted to reject Banks Group’s controversial proposal for ‘West Bradley’ an extension to the…
PRESS RELEASE Controversial opencast coal mine rejected: campaigners celebrate
Two mining companies are trying to greenwash their new plans for coal mines in the U.K
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…
Coal and Covid-19 activism draws hostility from institutions meant to protect indigenous leaders
There’s another chance to stop this mega-polluter from producing coal until 2070.
If approved the mine would produce 2.78 million tonnes of coking coal a year for fifty years
Decisions on coal mines still pending despite reduced coal demand & power station closures
Prof Paul Ekins O.B.E, a leading resource economist and policy advisor, explains why coal companies are talking “economic nonsense”
Today, March 13, Ecodefense and Fridays for Future hold a protest rally in Novokuznetsk against coal mining
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.
Dodgy economics, unburnable carbon, methane emissions and more… (And we explain what ‘goafing’ is, too)
Where is coal being extracted, burned or sought right now, and who is behind it?
We have been tracking Banks Groups’ coal trains to coal-fired power stations.
What do you do when your local coal company sends you a glossy brochure of lies in the post?
Banks Group want to expand the Bradley Opencast coal mine in the Pont Valley.
The High Court has upheld the claim that there is an environmental case against Banks Group
