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Government Approves U.K.’s First Deep Coal Mine for 30 Years

by Will Jones
8 December 2022 3:00 PM

Michael Gove has approved the U.K.’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years after conceding that new green technologies are unlikely to replace the fossil fuel’s role in steel-making for many years. The Telegraph has the story.

The Levelling Up secretary backed plans for a £165m coal mine in Cumbria in a decision that is expected to spark an immediate legal challenge from climate activists.

The Woodhouse Colliery, near Whitehaven, will produce coal for steelmaking in the UK and for export to Europe, employing about 500 workers at peak production.

But the project has been hugely controversial because of the impact of coal-based steel production on climate change.

The Government’s top climate advisor, Lord Deben, previously warned it would be “absolutely indefensible”.

The move comes a year after Alok Sharma, as president of the Cop26 climate conference hosted by the UK in November last year, said he wanted to “consign coal power to history”.

Justifying his decision on Wednesday, Mr Gove argued the mine would have an “overall neutral effect on climate change” and the “likely amount of coal used in steel making would be broadly the same with or without the development of the proposed mine”.

Industry is developing alternatives to coal blast furnaces for steelmaking, such as using hydrogen or electric arc furnaces, but decision papers say Mr Gove believes there is “no certainty” on the contribution they will be able to make over the next 10-15 years.

A report by civil servants said: “The Secretary of State… does not consider that there is a compelling case that hydrogen direct reduction will result in a significant reduction in the demand for coking coal over the next decade.” 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Carbon dioxideClimate AlarmismCoalFossil fuelsMichael GoveNet Zero

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
2 years ago

It’s like the civil service, local government and the EU. These people (yes these people) are rewarded for building empires, overspending on budgets and creating waste. We have seen how the civil service do want they want, not what they have been directed to do, or what their mission demands, a good case in point being the miss-named Border Force. Meanwhile the taxpayer is landed with an ever growing tax bill and longer waits for treatment or appointments. The social contract is well and truly broken. Beyond repair.

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For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

Re Stop Press, I have never understood why the NHS has not set up its own locum services, if necessary paying locum staff exactly the same as the private sector but ploughing the profits back into the NHS. It would at the very least drive the private services to drop prices or disappear from the market place.

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago

Does hark back to “Yes, Minister”.
The perfect hospital with no patients.
A prescient series in so many ways.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

This is a consequence of the Equality Act. The Government could stop it tomorrow by repealing, or at the very least, amending the Act.

But it won’t. It’s terrified of the Twitterati, the BBC and the assorted woke virtue-signallers who infest the Establishment.

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