I READ with interest Tony Kelly’s letter (HAS, May 3), regarding a proposed opencast site near Dipton, and the article headlined “Community fights opencast coal plan” (Echo, Apr 25). As a resident of ...

The opencast mine at Glan Lash mine near Ammanford not been operating since 2019 Plans to mine 95,000 tonnes of coal from an opencast site creating 11 jobs have been rejected by a council. Bryn Bach ...

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners were celebrating today after councillors said no to further opencast mining at Glan Lash. Carmarthenshire councillors refused permission for an extension to the opencast mine ...

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A LOCAL authority criticised in the past for its liberal approach to opencast mining is to oppose a project in a neighbouring council's area. East Ayrshire Council has told Dumfries and Galloway it ...

A PLAN to mine millions of tonnes of coal from a site has been revived because of coal's rocketing market value. Coal bosses appeared to have scaled down plans for open-cast mining at Cutacre Colliery ...

Carmarthenshire councillors put nature and climate first today (Thursday 14 September), by saying no to further opencast coal mining at Glan Lash opencast mine in Carmarthenshire. Around 50 local ...

Plans for a new restoration scheme for the Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil have been revealed. Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd has applied for a revised scheme for the final restoration of ...

MORE than a million tonnes of Welsh coal will stay in the ground after Assembly ministers rejected an appeal over an opencast mine. MORE than a million tonnes of Welsh coal will stay in the ground ...

Plans to mine 95,000 tonnes of coal from an opencast site creating 11 jobs have been rejected by a council. Bryn Bach Coal Ltd asked permission to extend the closed Glan Lash mine near Ammanford in ...