Campaigners persuade Welsh Gov’t to intervene in £91.2M cleanup of Ffos-y-fran TL;DR summary Mining company Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd is trying to dodge its agreed £91.2 million restoration of the Ffos-y-fran coal mine, proposing to cut 90% of the cleanup work. Following relentless campaigning from local residents, Coal Action Network, FOE Cymru, and others, the…
Lifting the lid on damage done by David Stanley Lewis of Pontypool “Dishonest” and convicted fraudster became Director of Ffos-y-fran coal mine In 2015, David Stanley Lewis took over operations at the sprawling Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine from the previous operator, Miller Argent. The company became ‘Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd’ with a complicated corporate structure…
Who’s enabling massive restoration cuts at Ffos-y-fran? Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd is the mining company refusing to clean up its own mess after mining millions of tonnes of coal from the sprawling opencast coal mine, Ffos-y-fran, in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The following consultants are stubbornly risking their reputation by supporting an application by Merthyr…
The human cost of the stolen £millions The mining company, Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd, is trying to do the residents of Merthyr Tydfil out of tens of millions of pounds worth of restoration at Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine by massively reducing the restoration it agreed to carry out at the end of 16 years of…
360 exploration of Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine Explore the churned up landscape from different views below, drag around the viewpoints and go full-screen for an immersive experience. This is what the 58,000 residents of Merthyr Tydfil face every day…and with a new plan by mining company, Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd, to evade its responsibility to…
Lethal landscape: cuts to Ffos-y-fran mine restoration puts community at risk A new plan to cut every corner Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd operates the recently closed sprawling Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine, next to the town of Merthyr Tydfil – home to around 58,000 people. In 2015, Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd agreed a restoration plan with…
Demand nature be restored to Ffos-y-fran opencast site Mining company sells out local communities to keep record profits Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd illegally mined coal at Ffos-y-fran for over a year, profiting from record coal prices. Now, it wants to keep all the profits by trying to downgrade the restoration plan, breaking its promise to…
We investigate mining company’s ‘missing’ millions Background Mining company: Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd (MSW) is the current operator of the sprawling opencast coal mine, Ffos-y-fran, in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Claim: MSW claims “It was established that there are insufficient funds available to achieve the 2015 restoration strategy and therefore an alternative scheme is required.”…
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…
Judicial Review filed against Ffos-y-fran illegal coal mine UPDATE: the pressure of our judicial review worked! The Council was finally forced to act and agreed a generous 4 month-deadline with the mining company to actually stop coal mining. In total, 640,000 tonnes of coal were mined illegally which is unbelievable, but it could have been…