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…
To begin with, we need to be scaling down coal extraction for use as fuel, whether “reclaimed” or newly mined, it’s all just as bad for the environment. Secondly, the industry has demonstrated time and time again that promises to restore sites after extracting as much profit as possible are worthless, and unenforceable. If we are to allow further coal extraction on the basis of “We will clean up our mess afterwards”. Something that I don’t believe that we should do anyway. The companies should be required to deposit some sort of secure bond in advance to pay for subsequent clean up operations. No bond, no permission, no exceptions.
Well done Coal Action Network for exposing this fraudulent and massively under capitalized project, with no likely community and environmental benefits. I’m amazed that ERI thought that they could ‘Green Wash’ their proposal and no doubt prioritize the open cast extraction where nearly all the profit lies. As for any commitment to landscape the site after the works are complete; how many Councils hold an applicant to their original planning conditions?
A new energy revolution is happening with the nature of energy conversion moving away from the heat released from burning fossil fuels. Future power stations will not be large, thermal steam generators, with a maximum efficiency of just 48 % when using coal. More than half of all primary energy is wasted, whilst adding the excess heat from the secondary cooling loop to the sky, river or sea.
I believe that Fusion will also make Fission obsolete and that various approaches to the Hydrogen-Helium energy cycle will create a new status Quo, allowing de-centralized and pollution free power without the plant volume and visual aspects of Wind and PV farms. All the scientific evidence indicates that this is possible but our politicians and companies are blinkered by the technologies of the past and present.
As we know these companies promises are just a puff of smoke, just look at Bryngwyn Colliery Engine House. The council fell for the false promise that the building would be looked after & made safe, a monument of the past. As soon as the houses were up the building company vanished and all that was left was a wire fence surrounding the old engine house building. Its a disgrace they can get away with it.
There seems to be no comeback when the company vanishes and profits have been given to shareholders, if the tip reclamation gets passed we need a stronger council.