Campaigners threaten legal action to prevent coal mining at Ffos-y-Fran site in South Wales

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The Ffos-y-Fran coal mine | Credit: iStock
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The Ffos-y-Fran coal mine | Credit: iStock

Good Law Project and Coal Action Network team up to launch legal threat against operation of opencast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil

Non-profit organisations Good Law Project and Coal Action Network have teamed up in opposition to a coal mine in South Wales which they claim continues to extract coal despite the operator having lost...

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