Is Welsh planning policy for coal about to hit the buffers?
Loose Anti Opencast Network Press Release, 15 March 2013 Communities across the South of Wales, living close to proposed or actual opencast mine proposals in the Rhonnda (the Bryn Defaid proposal) , Neath and Port Talbot (the East Pit proposal and the Margam Parc...Groups unite to call for Europe to cut its use of world’s land
A coalition of groups, including Friends of the Earth and London Mining Network, has united to call for European governments, and the EU as a whole, to reduce Europe’s land footprint – the amount of land we use each year for food, textiles, wood, biofuels etc....One third of government ministers linked to UK companies fuelling climate change
One third of ministers in the UK government, including top cabinet ministers, are linked to the UK finance and energy companies fuelling climate change, a report from LMN member group World Development Movement reveals. The anti-poverty campaign group has condemned...Strike ends at Cerrejon, then coal train bombed
Workers in the SINTRACARBON mining union have come to an agreement with Cerrejon Coal, owned by Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Shortly after the strike ended, there was a bomb attack on the railway taking coal to the export terminal. Click on photo for more…