Scottish Coal go into Liquidation April 22

“In light of Scottish Coal’s poor trading and financial position, we have had to cease trading with immediate effect,”
-Blair Nimmo, joint provisional liquidator and head of restructuring at KPMG in Scotland.

Scottish Coal, the UK’s biggest coal producer, has announced on Friday that they are entering administration. Due to recent “significant cash flow pressures” they have laid-off 600 workers and stopped all production at their six open cast sites.
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!Victory! Dearne Lea Opencast Refused April 21

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to resume open cast mining near Clayton West was rejected this week.

Gordon Harrison Ltd wanted to extract 190,000 tonnes of coal and 40,000 tonnes of fireclay from land between the village and Bretton Hall Park.
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Sheffield City Council set to face second legal action. April 21

Cowley Residents Action Group (CRAG) have instructed their legal representatives, Richard Buxton, to instigate legal action against Sheffield City Council following its decision to grant planning permission to RecyCoal Ltd to reclaim coal from the former Hesley Wood Spoil Heap at Chapeltown.

The decision to take legal action is based upon the councils failure to take full account of the impact of the development on air quality as Sheffield is an Air Quality Action Zone and the planning framework requires them to take full account of air quality in the decision making process which appears not to be the case in this application. The council also refused to undertake a Health Impact Assessment despite this being recommended by the Director of Public Health.