Woodland saved as last opencast mine application in the UK is rejected

Martin Shipton An ancient woodland has been saved thanks to a council’s decision to reject the UK’s last opencast coal application.

Carmarthenshire county councillors decided to reject Bryn Bach Coal Ltd’s second attempt to expand and extend the currently dormant Glan Lash opencast coal mine at Ammanford, amidst hundreds of hand-written and online objections from […]

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