Key facts: illicit Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine expansion
Key facts: illegal Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine expansion
Find out more about how the Ffos-y-fran coal mine has managed to illegally siphon coal out for 16 months without being stopped.
Key facts & figures for 16 months of illegal coal mining
06 September 2022 - 08 January 2024
Coal sold: 640,000 tonnes (of 11 million tonnes total, company-reported volumes published in official Coal Authority statistics)
CO2 from coal use: 2.02 million tonnes of CO2 (2022 BEIS Conversion Factors)
Methane from the mine itself: 2,900 tonnes (Global Energy Monitor)
CO2e from the mine itself: 931,000 tonnes in 2021 (reported by the company on p4 (7) for machinery, electricity, and gas combustion)
Coal operator: Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd – formerly Miller Argent Holdings Limited, subsidiary of Merthyr Holdings Limited – which is owned by Gwent Investments Limited
Parent company: Gwent Holdings Limited, owned by Mrs J H Lewis
Type: Thermal coal, some of which is ‘upgraded’ to be sold to steelworks
Mining method: Opencast
Claimed destination: steelworks, domestic heating, cement production etc.
Local Planning Authority: Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Address: Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme, East Of Merthyr Tydfil CF48 4AE
Time: 15 years, then a further 16 months illegally
Published: 17/08/2022 Updated: 25/01/2024
Profit over people and planet, DISGUSTING! What can we do?
This week we’re asking people to write an objection to the council. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/rule-out-expanding-ffos-y-fran-opencast-coal-mine Thanks
Should never have been taken away from N C B /British coal and it would have been finished years ago and put back to what the people wanted just have to look at Bryn Parc and Blaenavon lakes,but this has been handled so badly by the owners and council’and i worked on this site and at Cwmbargoed for 25 years leaves a bitter taste in my mouth how this is going to be left
MILLER ARE COW BOYSAHAH
I have heard, from a business source in Merthyr Tydfil, that they are now using waste to landscape the site. They are allegedly operating out of licence. I would be interested to find if this information is corroborated.