‘Not the future we should be going for’: the reopening of Wales’s Aberpergwm coalmine

Jacob Rees-Mogg's call to once more dig for coal at the colliery has been granted and many fear it will hamper tourism as well as damage the environment

Nestled beneath waterfall country in the south western tip of the Brecon Beacons national park, the town of Glynneath is perfectly positioned to exploit the visitors drawn to the beauty of the landscape.

It is as Jacob Rees-Mogg said in the House of Commons, our green and pleasant land. But a powerful group of Tory MPs pushing back against the need to pivot away from fossil fuels to meet the UK's net zero targets believe it should play host not to a future involving clean air, renewable energy and sympathetic tourism but to the revival of the coal industry.