Posted on 09/16/2024 6:29:27 AM PDT by cutty
London’s High Court on Friday quashed a planning permission for the UK’s first new coal mine in three decades, ruling that the permit was unlawful as it hadn’t considered the emissions from burning the fuel.
Earlier this year, climate campaigners, including Friends of the Earth, challenged the approval of the coal mining project.
The UK’s previous Conservative government approved in December 2022 the Woodhouse Colliery project in Whitehaven, northwest England..
The project to mine metallurgical coal, the one used for steelmaking, will be required to support steelmaking..
However, the new Labour government in the UK pulled in July its support for the project and said that it would no longer defend the case at High Court. ..
The government’s move to drop its defense of the project follows a landmark Supreme Court judgment from June 2024, which ruled that a local council unlawfully granted approval to an onshore oil drilling project as planners must have considered the emissions from the oil’s future use as fuels, in a landmark case that could upset new UK fossil fuel projects.
Today the High Court agreed with the legal challenges that the lifetime emissions of the proposed Whitehaven mine, mostly from burning coal, were not properly considered and the approval was unlawful.
“We have to leave fossil fuels in the ground and build the cleaner, brighter future that will slash emissions, cut bills and create the well-paid jobs of tomorrow that areas like West Cumbria so urgently need,” said Niall Toru, senior lawyer at Friends of the Earth.
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How many body bags have they ordered?
” areas like West Cumbria so urgently need”
Yeah and those “clean” jobs won’t be provided by any dimbulb attorneys like Niall. Or Chinese solar panel manufacturers.
Just change the name from “coal mine” to “green energy lithium mine” and you should be good to go.
That’s true but the future for us is really with hydroelectric and tidal.
The island coast is ideal for it. But in Cumbria, HEP would be perfect.
People forget the Hoover Dam was a HEP project and the British HEP project in Zimbabwe created what remains to this day the largest, most transformative man made lake on earth.
Cumbria has become infamous for flooding. So, coalmines are a bit risky. By contrast, lakes and dams would be a no brainer.
More immigrants, less heat in winter…. 🤔. Sounds like a recipe for more heat!
Breaking: UK is still Killing Itself.
Thousands of jobs down the toilet... Coal isn’t going anywhere, especially with China and India building coal electrical generating stations like they ‘aren’t’ going out of style... We need steel... And we need steel jobs and mining jobs. The left-wing lunacy continues on.
So, coalmines are a bit risky.
See Aberfan.
Question, does the government need to consider the future crimes like stabbings from immigration that could upset the English population before letting more immigrants into England?
Don’t worry, the enviros will object to both.
You could be living in a cave and they would object to your campfire.
And I’ve never met an attorney in any engineering capacity in my life, so it’s beyond hilarious listening to some fatuous barrister babbling about future energy production.
The UK are entirely insane believers in the climate crisis fraud.
They’ll have to prise my two wood burning stoves outta my cozy warm dead hands.
The UK is GONE, GONE, GONE.
You do realize that once they get you to switch over to something they then ban it? They’re taking down dams over here left and right.
Speak for yourself. My solar panels are running in excess export mode while powering the whole house, with the house heating covered by good old fashioned log burners.
Total outlay 5 years ago was less than what I’ve saved in paying the energy companies.
Once I’ve got the water wheel finished, I’ll be off grid for everything except water, sewage, and my gigabit internet connection. Which in your money is about $70 a month.
The house has already been zombie proofed.
“cut bills and create the well-paid jobs of tomorrow”
Tell that to those who used to work in the coal industry - don’t forget to tell them how many “well-paid jobs” the alternative energy industry has created.
Or you could just tell them to learn to code, it would be a lot faster and easier.
“Approved in December 2022 the project ...”, “Pulled in July its support...”. Very awkward, stilted writing from someone whose first language is not English.
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