This page will contain all the latest MOPG Press Releases from PR101

PR 101 PR 101 Are We Next To Be Labelled A Barrier To Enterprise (7/3/11)

PR 102 Big Increase In UK Coals Debt Mountain Reinforces the need for a Bankers Guarantee for proposed Minorca Opencast development. (19/4/11)

PR 103 'Opposition hots up to the proposed Minorca Opencast Mine'(7/5/11)

PR 104 'Decision day looming for Minorca mine application' (3/6/11)

PR 105 Last Ditch Effort to Stop the Minorca Opencast Mine Application from succeeding

This page contains the most recent issues of the Minorca Protest News

Issue 21 February 2010

Issue 22 March 2010

Issue 23 April 2010

Issue 24 May 2010

In order to prepare for the 2nd round of consultations MOPG began to issue a series of topical Briefing Notes as a better means of keeping abreast of a rapidly changing set of circumstance. Please go to our Briefing Notes section for more up to date information.

How to join the Protest

Current membership (2010 - 2011) of the Coordinating Committee

This page describes the activities associated with each of the roles of members of the Coordinating Committee.

This page has a topic index for issues 1-10 of what eventually becomes called the Minorca Protest News plus the first 10 Issues of our Newsletter.

This page contains a Topic Index for Issues 11-20 of the Minorca Protest News plus copies of issues 11-12 of the Minorca Protest News.

This page contains the first 9 press releases we have issued from the start of the campaign and covers the period 6/10/09 to 25/5/10

This set of Press Releases covers the period 26/5/09 to 25/7/09. It includes MOPG's reaction to the planning application being submitted on 6/7/09.

Our Press Releases issued between 26/7/09 and 3/10/09

This set of Press Releases covers the period 12/10/09 to 13/11/09. It covers the decisions of NWLDC and Measham Parish council to oppose the application, our 1st research report on changes in the Planning system, Meashams Parish Councils public meeting with UK Coal plc and the submission of our 2nd set of objections to UK Coal plc's Minorca application.

These press releases cover the period January 2010 - March 2010. It covers MOPG's 5th Public Meeting, with the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates who then publically opposed the Minorca Planning Application and the publication of our 3rd Research Report into the activities of UK Coal Plc

This page contains press releases no 51-60:

PR 51) A spate of bad news stories hits UK Coal plc (25/3/10)

PR 52) No Inaccuracies - but report condemned by UK Coal.(8/3/10)

PR 53) Minorca opencast decision now postponed until the summer. (16/4/10)

PR 54) Other controversies affect UK Coal plc in addition to it loosing £129m (26/4/10)

PR 55) UK Coal: An Honourable Company? (6/5/10)

PR 56) Leicestershire County Council: Please Make a Decision!! (13/5/10)

PR 57) Our New MP is the first person to sign our petition urging a decision on UK Coal's Minorca Application (16/5/10)

PR 58) Pensioners to deliver message on Minorca. (4/6/10)

PR 59) 400 have now signed the Minorca Petition. (7/6/10)

PR 60) UK Coal to gain unwelcome publicity at a Leicestershire County Council meeting.

This page contains MOPG's most recent press releases from no 61 dated from 15/6/10:

PR 61 Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk - More on the Minorca Petition. (15/6/10).

PR 62) Membership Surge for MOPG on the back of the Petition. (16/6/10)

PR 63) Chairperson Sympathises with Minorca Petitioners (18/6/10).

PR 64 Proposed Law would make Minorca type applications History (29/6/10

PR 65 Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy (29/6/10)

PR 66 Minorca Surface Mine application to feature on BBC 1 as Countryfile investigates the issue of Opencast Mining. (3/8/10)

PR 67 "It might only need one dumper truck journey to irretrievably damage the River Mease Special Area of Conservation claim objectors. (4/8/10)

PR 68 'The state of the Lounge Site is no advert for UK Coal's Surface Mine Application.

PR 69 The Battle to stop the Minorca Opencast Mine recommences in Measham on Thursday Night.

PR 70 Is there a fatal financial flaw in UK Coal's Minorca Application?

PR 71 Parish Council not sidetracked by 'Inducements'(13/8/10)

PR 72 "Dramatic pictures show that the risks of opencast mining can be only too real" (18/8/10)

PR 73) A Public Appeal to help stop a new Opencast Mine Application from succeeding in The Heart of England. (24/8/10)

PR 74 "The real cost of restoring the Ashby Canal to Measham" 25/8/10

PR 75 "Will UK Coal be able to afford to restore the Ashby Canal?" (27/8/10)

PR 76 "Protesters again face an uphill challenge to convince Councillors to reject the Minorca Application for a second time" (6/9/10)

PR 77) UK Coal's Minorca Opencast Application: North West Leicestershire District Council still says No! (8/9/10)

PR 78) Campaigners argue that a change in policy means that new Opencast Mine applications are less likely to succeed. (14/9/10)

PR 79) "Minorca Application lacks a through Traffic Assessment". (21/9/10)

PR 80) "UK Coal fail to respond to two more objections raised by protestors about the Minorca Opencast Application. (23/9/10)

This page contains our Press Releases from September 2010 to January 2011

PR 81) 'Visible Dust will be a problem for Local Residents if the Minorca Plan goes ahead'. (27/9/10)

PR 82 'Another Set of Objections completely ignored by UK Coal' (30/9/10)

PR 83 "The Minorca Opencast Mine experience is likely to be a longer term 'Blot on the Landscape' says MOPG (12/10/10).

PR 84 'Recent decision means that approval of the Minorca Opencast Application is even less of a foregone conclusion' (22/11/10)

PR 85 'Campaigners resistance to Opencast Mine proposals hears encouraging news from MP'. (26/11/10) (Also contains results of MOPG's 2010 AGM).

PR 86 'Safeguarding the Community Benefits of the proposed Minorca Surface Mine' (6/12/10)

PR 87 "The water quality of the River Mease Special Area of Conservation is threatened by UK Coal's Minorca Opencast proposal say objectors. (29/12/10)

PR 88 'The Minorca application is just the tip of an iceberg'. (6/1/11)

PR 89 'Saving communities form the risk of future opencast mining' (6/1/11)

PR 90 'The 500m Buffer zone is needed to 'Right a Wrong' in British Planning Law' (10/1/11)

This page contains MOPG's press releases from 14/1/11 to 18/2/11

PR 91 'Measham Parish Council backs call for a Banker's Guarantee from UK Coal (14/1/11)

PR 92 '553 Million Climate Change reasons for supporting the 500m Buffer Zone Bill. (17/1/11)

PR 93 'How close are you to a potential Opencast Coal Site (17/1/11)

PR 94 "UK Coal and possible 'consequences of insolvency" (26/1/11)

PR 95 "Is the financial state of UK Coal plc beginning to unravel" (26/1/11)

PR 96 'Are the wheels beginning to come off UK Coal's coal wagon load of debt' (28/1/11)

PR 97 " The 500m Buffer Zone Bill brings hope to Anti-Opencast Mine Campaigners across England. (7/2/11)

PR 98 "Minister emphasises the role Leicestershire County council has to play over the Minorca Decision'

PR 99 "Will Leicestershire County Councillors follow Durham County Council's example and reject another UK Coal Opencast Mine Application? (16/2/11)

PR 100 ' Question to Leicestershire County Council - Can we please have a 'Minimum Zone of Separation. (18/2/11).

The Minorca Opencast Protest Group's own web site which has pictures of the site and some video and audio additions to it can be accessed here.

These are pages about how the MOPG campaign developed. The are hosted on The Coal in the UK web site. They contain ideas about campaigning about planning issues that other groups may find useful, especially those involved with mineral planning issues.