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Guy Shrubsole, a climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth, reporting from Varteg in Wales On a cold moonlit night last week in the valleys of south Wales, I witnessed the coal industry struggling in its death-throes. I was in Varteg, a tiny village...

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Opencast mining at Ffos-y-Fran, near Merthyr Tydfil. Photo: Chris Austin In October 2007, George Monbiot looked at a green hilltop in Merthyr Tydfil where a massive new opencast coal mine was planned and warned of ‘the new coal age’. &lsquo...

Yesterday, something extraordinary happened: a council in South Wales, the birthplace of the fossil fuel age, defied the coal industry and said no to an opencast coal mine. Wales kickstarted the industrial revolution with coal from the valleys around...

Nagpur Today : Nagpur News Nagpur: Amidst the reports of incessant rains taking heavy toll in one way or the other in the regions, the shut down opencast mines of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) could turn out to be the disaster zone. A virtual death...