In Wales, UK, residents have suffered 16 years of noise and dust pollution
from a giant coal mine.

But they’ve had enough and are pushing back, asking their Council and
national government put and end to this and restore the local ecosystem.

We can help this community succeed by exerting international pressure on
authorities to deliver on their promise to restore nature!

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Can you imagine suffering for 16 years from noise and air pollution from
coal mining? Now picture being told the giant pit in your backyard won’t
be cleaned up, and your community will be left with the £120 million
clean-up bill?

This is what the mining giant Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd has planned for
local Welsh residents -- and the authorities are in on it -- but we won’t
let them get away, and have a plan to make them pay!

If thousands of us put our weight behind the local residents, there's no
way the government can evade responsibility. We will bring your signatures
directly to the council. Let's make this huge!

[ [link removed] ]Tell the Merthyr County Borough Council and Welsh Government: Make this
company pay up and restore nature for this community.

The Ffos-y-fran coal mine is the largest opencast mine in the UK, and it
looks like a giant crater with lots of holes from years of digging -- and
the responsible authorities just want to leave it like that.

Local residents, Chris and Alyson Austin say “We have been betrayed by the
government departments that are there to protect and support us. We are
sickened by this whole affair, and we call on the Welsh Government to
stand up and sort out this sorry mess now; once and for all.”

The Ekō-Community has the power to make the authorities pay up. We have
already succeeded in blocking the funding for the Adani mine in Australia.
Today, we can join the local residents in Wales and support their
resistance and refusal to accept this shameless act of profit greed on the
backs of people and the environment.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the local government to deliver the original restoration deal
promised to residents in 2007!



[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 



Thanks for all that you do,
Daphne, Ildem and the team at Ekō


More Information:
[ [link removed] ]Restore nature in the mess of UK's largest opencast coal mine , Coal
Action Network, November 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Ffos-y-Fran: UK's largest opencast coal mine confirms closure date
, Sky News, 16 August 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Ffos-y-fran, the UK's last opencast coal mine finally shut - we're not
celebrating, Coal Action Network, 30 November 2023.

 

 

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