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UK election 2024: Parties line up to ban more coal mining FIVE political parties’ manifestos rule out new coal mines in the UK “…we will not grant new coal licences and will ban fracking for good.” “Maintaining the ban on fracking and introducing a ban on new coal mines.” “Cancel recent fossil fuel licences such…
“Scotland… has drawn a line, the era of coal is over” Today (Sat 15th October 2022) the Scottish government has stated that the “era of coal is over”. Lorna Slater, Co-leader of the Scottish Greens, announced at their party conference the preferred position against coal mining, for all types of coal. This is essentially 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…