How to Get Involved

Send a letter opposing the proposal for the open cast mine at Fairburn Ings. 

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Tell your friends and family about the planning proposal.

Join the YANC campaign and link to people opposing new coal throughout the country.

You can also go to the Planning Application, and submit a comment objecting to the application.

Please send your objection letters to: 

Clive Saul, Planning Dept, Leeds City Council, Leonardo Building, 2 Rossington Street, Leeds, LS2 8HD

 

Quote planning application details:

 

Opencast Mining at Fairburn/Ledston/Ledsham

Ref 06/07671/FU

 

2. Contact the leader of Leeds City Council calling on them to reject the proposal:

Council Leader: Councillor Richard Brett
991 Scott Hall Road, Leeds, LS17 6HJ

Phone:  (0113) 293 3925 Email:  richard.brett@leeds.gov.uk

 

3. Contact your MP to object to this proposal and new coal developments generally.

Find out who they are at: www.theyworkforyou.com

Write to them at: House of Commons, London, SW1 1AA

 

4. Ask for a review of government policy on coal

You can do this via the Greenpeace website at: www.greenpeace.org.uk

 

Time is running out. Climate change is accelerating due to fossil fuel use. Fossil fuel reserves are diminishing causing fuel prices to rise. Climate change will cause sea level rise, flooding low -lying areas. If all the ice at the poles melted, sea levels could rise by around 70m. Due to positive feedback, climate change may soon be beyond of and out of our control. Climate change could cause the extinction of up to a third of all of the Earth’s species. Many species of amphibian, birds, reptiles and mammals are already critically endangered. Do you really want to wave goodbye to the beauty of the world? Do you want your grandchildren coming up to you in thirty years time asking why you didn’t do anything to stop it?

 

Together, we’ll YANC politicians into realisation of climate change.