Ditch Coal: The Global Mining Impacts of the UKs Addiction to Coal
- Abstract
Coal is at a crossroads in the UK. On the one hand, the UK’s dirtiest power stations burn vast quantities of coal, with little or no regard for the human and environmental impacts that this has. On the other, the UK Government has announced an intention to “consult” over proposals to close remaining coal fired power stations by 2025; coal’s contribution to the UK’s energy mix is in decline, as is the domestic coal mining industry, and indeed the volume of coal imported from elsewhere in the world.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Anne Harris Scarlet Hall Katy Brown Oliver Munnion
- Resource URL
- http://coalaction.org.uk/ditchcoal.pdf
- Date
- 2015
- Institution
- Coal Action Network
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impacts
- Conflict Dislocation/displacement/migration
- Climate and Environmental Impacts
- Biodiversity Food/crops
- Emission Sources
- Conventional energy Energy Conventional
- Fossil Fuel
- Coal
- Solutions
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction Renewable/clean energy
- Other
- Advocacy Climate and environmental justice/health equity