Scottish Coal
{{#badges: Climate change |CoalSwarm}}The Scottish Coal Company Ltd is a subsidiary of the Scottish Resources Group. On its website it describes itself as "the largest coal producer in Scotland and the largest opencast coal mining company in the U. K." It produces approximately 4 million tonnes of coal a year.[1]
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Citizen Activism
June-August 2009: Protesters at Mainshill Wood in Scotland Protest Coal Mine
Climate change activists, calling themselves the Mainshill Solidarity Camp, erected a treehouse, tunnels and even a hammock that surrounded a site of a proposed open cast coal mine controlled by Scottish Coal. Protester Ross Jones said: "The reaction has been amazing. It was the first of its kind demonstration against coal mining in the country. Protesters stated that it was the beginning of more such actions to follow.[2]
Bid to Overturn Planning Restrictions
In a submission to the UK Department of Trade and Industry's Energy Review, Scottish Coal complained that "the greatest restriction facing the industry, and the ability to produce indigenous coal, is the difficulty of obtaining planning permission because of the 'presumption against' open cast coal mining, and the timescales involved." Scottish Coal urged both the UK governmnent and the Scottish Executive to overturn the existing 'presumption against' coal mining in the planning legislation on the grounds that this would "level the playing field for open cast coal, by subjecting it to the same planning regime as other developments".[3]
Affiliations
- UK Coal Producers (CoalPro) member[3]
Contact Details
Website: http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ Scottish Coal, "The Company", undated, accessed June 2008.
- ↑ "Mainshill hosts first Scottish Climate Camp" Ross Thomson, August 5, 2009.
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Scottish Coal, "Scottish Coal submission to DTI Energy Review", April 13, 2006.
Related SourceWatch articles
- Advanced Power Technology Forum [1]
- British Coal Utilisation Research Association [2]
- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform [3]
- UK Coal
- The Coal Authority [4]
- Department of Trade and Industry (UK) [5]
- British Geological Survey [6]
- European Union Large Combustion Plant Directive
- Very low sulphur coal
Global coal use
- Global use and production of coal
- Australia and coal
- China and coal
- Colombia and coal
- Germany and coal
- Indonesia and coal
- Japan and coal
- New Zealand and coal
- South Africa and coal
- United Kingdom and coal
- United States and coal
External links
- Scottish Coal, "Scottish Coal submission to DTI Energy Review", April 13, 2006. (This is the Scottish Coal Company Limited’s response to the Energy Review Consultation).
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