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	"author_name": "Coal Action Network",
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	"title": "Submit your objection to demand better",
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	"description": "Back up local residents to demand the Council rejects notorious mining company Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd’s attempt to massively downgrade the promised quality of restoration at the Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine. Promised restoration plan: Refilling the huge void created by opencast coal mining with the 3 colossal colliery spoil (coal tips) dumps made by the company nearby. This would return the landscape to the same shape as that surrounding it, and return grazing land back to the commoners to resume their traditional livelihoods. Price tag: £75-£120 million paid by the mining company New budget restoration plan: Leave behind a flooded void with an exposed coal-face and a capacity for over 1 million cubic metres of mine water at a depth of up to 175 metres at one end, held above the town of Merthyr Tydfil with almost 60,000 inhabitants. Leave behind 3 colossal coal tips containing 37 million cubic metres of colliery spoil, with the nearest towering over residents just 600 metres away. Price tag: £15 million paid out of an ESCROW account held by the Council. Why would the Council agree to such a downgrade? Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is likely afraid that Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd would abandon the Ffos-y-fran site entirely, escaping with all the profits they can carry, if the Council forces the company to make good on its contractually agreed restoration plan. However, public records seem to show that Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd can afford the agreed restoration plan and the Council should have the courage to finally stand up against this corporate bullying rather than sell out the citizens of Merthyr Tydfil of tens of millions in restoration works. Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd’s PR machine is spinning the new budget plan as being more ‘eco’ as it involves doing very little work, which doesn’t involve pumps to drain the void it flooded, or HGVs to move colliery spoil from the dumps it created. We’re sceptical of a coal mining company’s sudden concern for the climate when it saves them tens of £millions – and the long effect will be a scar on the landscape, hazards for local young people, and Commoners never having their land returned to them for grazing. More about Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd... More about human cost of stolen £millions",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/submit-your-objection-to-demand-better"
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