Bedwas coal tips: Key facts and impacts
ByDaniel
Proposed Bedwas coal tips mine: key facts and impacts
Mining company, ERI Ltd, is applying to mine nearly half a million tonnes of coal from two coal tips dumped in Caerphilly, South Wales, by the mining industry last time it operated in the area. It's vital we stop this shameless attempt to exploit the mess left behind by the mining industry to justify yet more mining. If the coal tip mining were to go ahead, it would:
- Carry around 468,000 tonnes of coal off the site for sale
- Inflict on local communities around 36 HGVs/day driving to and from the tips
- Drive further climate chaos by over 1.3 MILLION tonnes of CO2
- Devastate again the local ecology that’s slowly recovering around the tips
- Endanger the beautiful Sirhowy Valley Country Park bordering one of the tips
- Spread dust and noise pollution
- Open the floodgates to mining the other 300 coal tips in communities across South Wales that deserve a safe environment without enduring another wave of mining to get it, and fuelling our climate chaos by many millions of tonnes of CO2.
- Build a new section of haul road 575m long and 6m wide cut into the rock, and widen the existing forest track - possibly at the loss of trees bordering the road.
- Be operational initially for around 7 years (but this is often extended later)
- Work on site would start at 6am and continuing into the night until 10pm (16 hours/day, 15 hours every Saturday, and only Sunday without works) for 6-9 months (but this is may be extended, as is common for projects like this)
