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☆ Whitehaven: Plan to build first coal mine in decades unlawful, UK court rules
  + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Friday following a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners. Friends of the Earth and South Lakeland Action on Climate Change challenged the previous Conservative government’s 2022 approval of a coking coal mine in northwest England. Britain dropped its defence of the legal challenges after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year said planning authorities must consider the impact of burning, not just extracting, fossil fuels when deciding whether to approve projects. Developer West Cumbria Mining fought the case and said the project — which planned to extract coking coal for manufacturing steel, rather than to generate electricity — would be “a unique ‘net zero’ mine”. A spokesperson for West Cumbria Mining said the company “will consider the implications of the High Court judgment and has no comment to make at this time”.
Persons: CNN —, Niall Toru, Toru, James Strachan, David Holgate Organizations: CNN, Lakeland, Conservative, Earth, Developer West, Mining, West Cumbria Mining’s, West Cumbria Mining Locations: England, Britain, West Cumbria
☆ 'Deeply damaging mistake': UK's decision to approve a new coal mine criticized as misguided
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
In a statement reacting to the news, the firm behind the development said it was "delighted with the decision." West Cumbria Mining said the Woodhouse Colliery, in the county of Cumbria, would supply "the critical steel industry with a high-quality metallurgical coal product." The U.K. has a long association with coal mining, but the industry's decline hit many communities hard and is an emotive subject. The approval for the Woodhouse Colliery was welcomed by Mike Starkie, the elected mayor of Copeland Borough Council in Cumbria. "I've been inundated with messages from across my community tonight, and we've got a community in celebration about one of the biggest positive economic impacts on our area in a generation," he added.
☆ UK government greenlights first new coal mine in three decades
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —The UK has greenlit a controversial plan to open the country’s first new coal mine in three decades, a little more than a year after the nation tried to convince the world to ditch coal at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. Committee chairman Lord Deben said in a statement: “Phasing out coal use is the clearest requirement of the global effort towards Net Zero. We condemn, therefore, the Secretary of State’s decision to consent to a new deep coal mine in Cumbria, contrary to our previous advice. This decision grows global emissions and undermines UK efforts to achieve Net Zero.”The mine’s approval was also met with fierce criticism from scientists and environmentalists. Its opponents argue these jobs may not be secure, given the huge momentum in Europe to phase out coal.
☆ Britain approves first new coal mine in decades
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Britain on Wednesday approved its first new deep coal mine in decades to produce the high-polluting fuel for use in steelmaking, a project that critics say will hinder the UK's climate targets. The majority of the coal produced is expected to be exported to Europe. Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal — such as in steel and power plants — are the single biggest contributor to climate change, and weaning countries off coal is considered vital to achieving global climate targets. Earlier this year, the chair of Britain's independent Climate Change Committee, John Gummer said the Woodhouse project was "absolutely indefensible". Britain, the cradle of the industrial revolution, once employed 1.2 million people at nearly 3,000 collieries.
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