Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal mine.
… Catherine Early | 5th May 2023 | News Coal Climate Change Mining South Wales … message that coal mining goes against Wales’ climate, planning and coal policies and sets a … fuel extraction isn’t compatible with our climate change targets. This has been backed …
Firm continues to mine coal at the UK’s largest open pit weeks after being refused planning permission for the activity.
… according to Julie James, Welsh minister for climate change in a letter to the UK … the coal industry was “at odds” with the UK’s climate leadership ambitions and policies on … highest levels of the UK government on its climate goals,” according to Daniel Therkelsen …
Firm mined 270,000 tonnes of coal since planning permission ran out - more than planned extension had proposed.
… stubbornly refused to step in and put its climate policies into practice, instead … ban in October 2022.” The Welsh Senedd’s Climate Change Committee has written to the …
The authority in charge of international talks on sea bed mining has published wide-ranging restrictions for campaigners and media, threatening to expel anyone who breaches them from the event.
… could be sufficient to support the national climate pledges announced by governments, the … uphold, not undermine, their international climate and biodiversity commitments and the …
How fossil fuels are destroying biodiversity and Indigenous people’s rights.
… River, according to Aliénor Rougeot, climate and energy program manager at Canadian … government’s department for Environment and Climate Change said that allowing treated …