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…
Restoration without the climate vandalism Background ERI Ltd launched its pre-application consultation in early 2024 to mine two coal tips in Bedwas, South Wales. The company is proposing to extract a total of around 468,000 tonnes of coal from both tips. This would drive further climate chaos by over 1.3 million tonnes of CO2, as…
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…
Ffos-y-fran: timeline of illegal coal mining What follows is an illustrated timeline of the major twists and turns of the long campaign to stop and restore the UK’s largest opencast coal mine, Ffos-y-fran, in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
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…
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…
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…
The latest cautionary tale: Halton Lea Gate opencast coal mine Overview Between 2008 and 2012, communities fought against the threat of an opencast coal mine on the edge of their picturesque rural Northumberland villages. Northumberland Local Planning Authority sided with the local communities and rejected the application in 2011. But that rejection was appealed by…