Over the past year, we’ve secured some massive victories. By taking part in our digital actions, supporters sent over 26,000 messages to the UK Government, MPs, Welsh Senedd members, Councillors, and companies to help consign coal to the history books in the UK…
The Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill (‘the Bill’) was prompted by a series of coal tip landslides that occurred in Wales following storms’ Ciara and Dennis in 2020, including a major landslide of a disused coal tip in Tylorstown…
As B Labs doesn’t seem bothered was the public says, we asked supporters to contact other B Corps – who are effectively B Labs customers. Almost 20,000 emails were sent to over 60 B Corp status companies, asking them to take a stand with us…
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…
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 opencast coal mining sites like East Pit, Margam Parc Slip, Nant Helen, and Selar are all recent examples of ‘zombie restorations’ carried out on budgets often amounting to 10% of what the promised restoration would have cost – sometimes even less. Ffos-y-fran looks set to join that list. Restorations are so-called because they are meant to…
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.