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TANC HIT THE STREETS AGAIN!

TANC were out on the streets of Wellington again this Saturday (28th March), urging Telford residents to sign their letters to the planning inspectorate. Despite the somewhat changeable weather (and the divebombing pigeons!) we managed to gather lots more of your objections to UK Coals proposal, all on grounds of climate change. Thanks to everyone that stopped to chat to us and sign their letters, our total is now approaching 400 letters which is just fantastic. We'd also like to say a big thank you to Pat from Friends of the Ercall who came out to show support and also provided some really useful 'visual aids' which really brought home the local impact of this development. Of course this issue doesn't only have local implications, the effects of climate change are felt globally and in the future it is likely that these effects will only become more dramatic.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change states that without intervention global temperatures will rise by 2 degrees Centigrade leading to irreversible global changes such as melting ice caps, rising sea levels, changes in rain patterns, increased droughts and floods that will have devastating effects on human society not only in the third world (which will feel it most strongly) but also here in the UK. The single greatest threat to the climate comes from burning coal. In fact coal fired generation is historically responsible for most of the fossil fuel CO2 in the air today and about half of all fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions globally. Coal fired power generation is the most environmentally damaging form of power generation yet devised.

Instead of coal we should be investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy and decentralised energy. If we do that we can tackle both climate change and energy security at the same time. Coal-fired power generation really is an outdated technology. Even today, Britain’s centralised, inefficient coal-fired power stations waste over two-thirds of the energy they generate! Compare that with the state-of-the-art decentralised combined heat and power plants they use in Scandinavia which run at up to 94% efficiency! We simply don't need this new coal-hole.

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TANC STREET STALLS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS

TANC took to the streets (and hills!) last weekend (28/02 & 01/03) in a mission to collect your letters to the Planning Inspectorate, and what a weekend it was! TANC'ers could be found on the Wrekin, in Ironbridge and the streets of Wellington where we collected a staggering 300 letters, all objecting to UK Coal's application to mine nearly one million tonnes of coal from the site at Huntington Lane, near Lawley, on the grounds of climate change. We were even joined by Mark Pritchard MP who turned out to show his support, and a slightly surreal and somewhat yellow "representative" of UK Coal! (see picture)

We would like to extend huge thanks to all 300 of you that signed those letters and to all those who missed us, why not take a look at the selection of letters we have available here on the website? All can be printed off and submitted to the Planning Inspectorate, or why not email your completed letters to us at info@tanc.org.uk and we will submit them to the planning inspector on your behalf at the beginning of the public inquiry.

Expect to see TANC out and about around the streets of Telford in the near future, where we will be doing more of the same, asking for your letters to the planning inspector; and no doubt being bothered by that pesky digger again too!

To see the full article from the Shropshire Star click HERE

TANC SHOWS SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE RUSH AT THEIR NO NEW COAL AWARDS

On the 27th of February TANC campaigners joined members of the suffragette movement inspired group Climate Rush at the UK Coal Awards, a lavish award ceremony hosted by UK Coal - the same company that has proposed an open cast coal mine at New Works, near Lawley.

Members of Climate Rush presented alternative awards based on the ecological damage UK Coal is inflicting on the environment such as 'Best Supporting Role' which was awarded to Gordon Brown for putting business interests before climate change, and 'Best Newcomer' which was awarded to Kingsnorth in Kent, where the proposed new coal-fired power station would emit as much carbon dioxide per year as thirty developing countries combined.

We think it's important to remember that climate change is a global issue and whilst we may be campaigning against our locally proposed coal-hole it's not a matter of not wanting it in 'our back yard' (unless you count the world as your 'back yard', in which case ok, you got us, we're total NIMBYs!), we don't want any new coal. Full stop. It doesn't matter where on the globe it comes from or where it's burned, coal remains the same dirty, climate changing disaster that it always has been and our dependance on such out-dated fossil fuels must end now. That's why we're delighted to support events like this and will continue to do so (if you check out the Evening Standard you can see TANC resplendent in green TANC tshirts, having a good old shout and waving our placards - Hi Mum!)

Big thanks to Climate Rush for having us!

Click on the links to find out more about the UK No New Coal Awards.
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