Greg Clark should suppose twice earlier than giving the inexperienced mild to the UK’s first new coal mine in a long time. It will be indefensible on local weather grounds, says Adam Vaughan
Surroundings
| Columnist
8 July 2022
A view of the previous Woodhouse Colliery website the place West Cumbria Mining are searching for approval to as soon as once more extract coal Getty Photos
“Consign coal to historical past,” mentioned UK prime minister Boris Johnson, responding to a landmark local weather science report final yr. A couple of months later on the COP26 local weather summit, the world dedicated to accelerating the “phase-out” of coal energy. Simply final month, John Gummer, the pinnacle of the UK’s unbiased Local weather Change Committee (CCC), mentioned: “So far as the coal mine in Cumbria is worried, let’s be completely clear, it’s …
