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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sandra Laville

‘Not the future we should be going for’: the reopening of Wales’s Aberpergwm coalmine

The Aberpergwm colalmine in Glynneath, south Wales.
The Aberpergwm colalmine in Glynneath, south Wales. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian

Nestled beneath waterfall country in the south western tip of the Brecon Beacons national park, the town of Glynneath is perfectly positioned to exploit the visitors drawn to the beauty of the landscape.

It is as Jacob Rees-Mogg said in the House of Commons, our green and pleasant land. But a powerful group of Tory MPs pushing back against the need to pivot away from fossil fuels to meet the UK’s net zero targets believe it should play host not to a future involving clean air, renewable energy and sympathetic tourism but to the revival of the coal industry.

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