Coal Authority had asked the Welsh government “for any direction they would wish to give” under current legislation but it was told that Labour ministers would not be making a “determination in this case”.
A report by BBC Wales has suggested Labour ministers could have stopped it approving a plan to dig up tens of millions of tonnes of coal at Aberpergwm mine. In November, Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters said he had urged the UK government to stop "40 million tonnes of coal" being extracted at the…