Victory! Ffos-y-fran opencast stopped from extending coal operations After 20 years of campaigning, last night (26/04/23) Merthyr Tydfil residents, Coal Action Network, Friends of the Earth Cymru, the Green Party, XR and other environmental campaigners finally collectively stopped Ffos-y-fran opencast coal with the Council’s refusal of permission to extend its climate chaos until 2024! This…
Petition delivered to the Welsh Government: call in and reject this coal mine! In September 2022, Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine’s 15-year planning permission ran out and the coal mine was due to close and restoration begin. However, Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd applied for a S73 time extension to mine coal at the site for a…
Santa delivers Christmas coal to Gove for Whitehaven approval Cumbria mine puts Gove on naughty list: Santa’s deliver sacks of ‘coal’ to him at his Whitehall office. Michael Gove is put on the naughty list for Cumbria Whitehaven mine; a gang of Santas delivers coal to Gove’s Whitehall office on behalf of Coal Action Network…
Click the arrows for coal-mine based chapters, or here for the full report in PDF Coal mine restoration in South Wales (2022/23) Summary Countless communities across the UK were – and still are – being sold a lie by their Local Planning Authorities and mining companies. This report combines field and desk-based research to reveal…
Informal briefing to Welsh Government on Aberpergwm and Welsh coal This week Coal Action Network held an informal briefing in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) sponsored by Jane Dodds, Member of the Senedd (MS). The event was attended by MSs and their staff who heard why the proposal to extend Aberpergwm coal mine should be stopped…
Coal is finite, but we are relentless Rich Felgate’s film FINITE: The Climate of Change, features the Campaign to Protect Pont Valley and the occupation of the Hambacher forest. It shows how, through relentless campaigning, direct action and creative protest, concerned people stopped destruction of the remaining Hambacher forest in the Rhineland, Germany. The forest…
Licenced: the Aberpergwm coal mine extension On 25th January 2022… …Whilst the Welsh and UK Governments continued to argue over which could stop it, The Coal Authority (now: Mining Remediation Authority) approved the full licence for an underground coal mine extension to Energybuild Ltd. The company can now mine a further 40 MILLION TONNES of…
Key facts & figures for 16 months of illegal coal mining at Ffos-y-fran Find out more about how the Ffos-y-fran coal mine has managed to illegally siphon coal out for 16 months without being stopped. 06 September 2022 – 08 January 2024 Coal sold: 640,000 tonnes (of 11 million tonnes total, company-reported volumes published in…
Lochinvar coal mine proposal – licenced Update – Sat 15th October 2022 the Scottish Government De Facto banned coal mining. As such this article is for historic interest only, this is not a live campaign New Age Exploration Ltd (NAE Ltd) proposes to extract up to 33.7 million tonnes of coking coal for steelworks in…
An open letter to stop the Aberpergwm coal extension Update The Coal Authority has issued the Aberpergwm coal mine with a licence to mine an extra 42 million tonnes of coal, ignoring the est.100 million tonnes of CO2 this will generate and jeopardise the UK’s and Wales’ ability to meet their climate commitments. Check out…