National Coal Board Archives

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council have appealed the ICO decision that the council must reveal coal tip locations to the residents of RCT.

Team @ AberdareOnline20 February 202321 February 202306 mins

AberdareOnline and Clear South Wales Coal Tips have been trying to get Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and the Welsh Government to publish where all the dangers coal tips are within Rhondda Cynon Taf, RCT Council has essentially said, because of the ongoing work involved with the coal tips they will not release any information on the…

Not in the public interest to inform locations of dangerous coal tips that remain a legacy left by the National Coal Board in our valleys

Team @ AberdareOnline13 May 202120 February 2023010 mins

The Aberfan disaster was the collapse of a National Coal Board spoil tip near the village of Aberfan on the morning of 21 October 1966. A spoil tip is a pile of waste rock and soil removed during coal mining. A tribunal tasked with investigating the Aberfan disaster published its findings on August 3, 1967….