The Welsh Government’s long-awaited Bill is expected to be presented to the Senedd before the end of 2024. The very recent Cwmtillery tip slip will make this Bill a more politically charged issue. It will also raise scrutiny over whether measures in the new Bill mark a sufficient improvement on the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969…
Kömür Eylem Ağı (Coal Action Network), 2024 yılında Türkiye kömür endüstrisini araştırdı. Bu makalede, bulgularımız ve Türkiye’deki kömür, hava kirliliği, Rusya savaşı ile karbonsuzlaştırma arasındaki ilişkiler inceleniyor.
Last December in London, the CAN team protested with other climate campaigners for two days in freezing temperatures outside one of the world’s biggest events funnelling investment into expanding mining globally. The ‘Mines and Money Conference’ held in London’s Business Design Centre connected investors with projects and companies responsible for human rights abuses, ecocide, and fuelling climate chaos…
The UK Government has laid a Written Ministerial Statement confirming that it will introduce legislation to “restrict the future licensing of new coal mines”, by amending the Coal Industry Act 1994, “when Parliamentary time allows”. The UK Government’s press release is entitled “New coal mining licences will be banned”. Here at Coal Action Network, we thinks it’s great that the UK Government is following…
(Türkçe olarak mevcuttur) Coal Action Network investigated the Turkish coal industry in 2024. This article looks at our findings and the links between Turkish coal, air pollution, Russia’s war and decarbonisation.
Former steelworker, Pat Carr, spoke to Anne Harris from Coal Action Network about the financial support offered to workers when the Consett steelworks closed in 1980, and they discussed what can be done better, in workplaces like Scunthorpe steelworks. (Article published in Canary magazine)
The proposed West Cumbria Coal mine lost its planning permission in September 2024. Since then its application to get a full coal mining license was refused by the Coal Authority, another nail in the coffin of the proposed coking coal mine.
Bryn Bach Coal Ltd is the coal mining company that operates the Glan Lash opencast coal mine, which has been dormant since planning permission expired in 2019. In 2018, it applied for an extension which was unanimously rejected by planning councillors in 2023. Undeterred, Bryn Bach Coal Ltd is trying again! This time with a slightly smaller extension of some 85,000 tonnes rather than 95,000 tonnes…
Former steelworker, Pat Carr, speaks to Anne Harris from Coal Action Network about the financial support offered to workers when the Consett steelworks closed in 1980.
Absolutely fantastic! I live in Suffolk but this success is vital to the planet and to us all
Good news on the judgement, and hope that’s the end of the mine application. Very clear explanation of the false claims by WCM too.
This is at last a victory for plain common sense. It puts the UK back on an unambiguous course toward Zero Carbon for the world community. And….it gives impetus – rather than mere buck-passing – toward low and eventually zero carbon steel production. In short: it is about a future worth living for us all. Well done.
13th of October??? The future is indeed upon us . . .
Congratulations from Australia (and from a sometimes visitor to Cumbria especially to Sedbergh). We have an uphill battle against the extremely well funded fossil fuel industry here and welcome any positive news. As the United Nations has declared, nowhere in the world should be opening new fossil fuel developments particularly coal.
Thank you so much for achieving this. I live in another part of the UK, but this impacts all of us.
Great news – now we just need to stop the coal boss’s more dangerous project – a deep nuclear dump off Whitehaven. Here is a bit of history of the first legal challenge against the coal plan by a nuclear safety campaigner – https://keepcumbriancoalinthehole.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/great-news-the-coal-mine-has-been-quashed-by-the-high-court/
Some days there’s good news! This ruling for once puts common sense ahead of platitudes from the deliberately blind fossil fuel industry.