Coal Action Network is a grassroots campaigning organisation which works to end open-cast coal mining and burning coal for electricity in the UK. They do this by working in solidarity with communities affected by open-cast coal mining and pollution, both in the UK and internationally towards a just end to coal now.
The threat to Druridge Bay from opencasting has not gone away, despite the international sea change on use of coal / fossil fuels contributing to the climate emergency. Here is an update from Coal Action Network with the latest on Druridge Bay and Pont Valley, dated 24 June 2019:
https://www.coalaction.org.uk/2019/06/still-no-decision
A very useful article from Campaign to Protect Rura england on the threat of over development on and around England's Green Belts:
https://www.cpre.org.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-planning/green-belts
Defend Dewley Hill benefits from a good degree of local community support and an organised campaign to object to the proposed surface mine at Throckley, west Newcastle:
https://defenddewleyhill.org.uk/
Latest campaigning news from Northumberland Wildlife Trust / the Wildlife Trusts:
https://www.nwt.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns
Plantlife's campaign to save wild flowers on road verges:
https://plantlife.love-wildflowers.org.uk/roadvergecampaign
Map of proposed new open cast site at Dewley Hill.
