9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes, thank you very much. Thank you, Janet. Can I just ask, then, a couple of questions from me, just to conclude? There is, of course, legislation being developed by the Government around coal tip safety. Do you not believe that maybe elements of this…
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Sue.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
'All of the above', I think, is the answer to that.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Well, indeed, yes, and that's something for us to recommend to the Government. Janet, back to you, I think.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you very much. There we are. Carolyn.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
We've got to move on. Maybe we can come back to that. Joyce. Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Okay. Well, we are hearing from a number of different groups and organisations and individuals over the course of this work. Some have agreed to appear before us, others have not. Listening to what you are saying today, I would invite them again to reconsider…
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes. Fine. Janet.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
We can pursue some of that—. Very briefly, Carolyn.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
One word answers are fine. There's no problem at all with that. We are aware of the arrangement, of course, that Merthyr have with Carmarthenshire, and Carmarthenshire will be before us next.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. We take everything you say on board and we take it seriously. I'm just conscious that we have 20 minutes left and there are a number of areas that we wish to cover, which, no doubt, you'll share your thoughts on. So, Janet, briefly, can we come to…
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
We're running out of time, I'm afraid, Mr Jordan.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you very much. Thank you.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Very briefly, Chris, if you don't mind.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
And we've seen recent photographs of what it looked like before and what it looks like now, which is quite a striking difference, really.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Okay. That's an important point. Julie, yes, please.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Which is concerning in itself.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
It is. It is. But what they're saying is it's within consent limits that have been set by Natural Resources Wales, so they're not saying NRW are doing the work.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Okay. Because they do tell us in a note that there are daily checks on the water quality to ensure that discharges are within consent limits set by Natural Resources Wales. They go on to say that ground water levels are being monitored as well, and after one…
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Do you mind if I just interject briefly? We've had a note from Merthyr South Wales Ltd. Are you not being updated at all in terms of the water—?
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. Delyth.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Sue.
9 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes. And a matter of scale as well is, I suppose, an incentive.