an environmental scientist at Lancaster University who has closely followed the Cumbria mine plans since 2019, tells The Independent. “But a public inquiry is only needed because climate policy ...

“Of course Cumbria, like every county, needs new jobs. But these should be in the green industries of the future, not in extending climate-wrecking fossil fuel production.” On these ...

Climate activists have protested against the project, while West Cumbria Mining, which is developing the mine, said the project would bring hundreds of new jobs into a struggling region.

The Cumbria County Council, which approved the project, said it did so because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment, according to the BBC. But scientists and climate activists have ...

In effect, climate strategy and industrial strategy will both be on trial. In the meantime, pressure will increase on ministers to agree policies that will stimulate green jobs in West Cumbria ...

The government's climate tsar has said a coal mine in Cumbria would never have been approved if his recommendations had been in place. Chris Skidmore, a Tory MP and chairman of the government's ...

Two teenage climate activists are more than a week into ... from the government after it gave the go-ahead for the mine in Cumbria in January. Both teenagers say they are now on day eight of ...

West Cumbria Mining Company Woodhouse Colliery could be the UK's first new deep mine for three decades However, Lord Deben warned its approval would damage the UK's leadership on climate change ...

Critics have said that the new mine will undermine the UK’s climate targets, while proponents argue that it will reduce the UK’s need to import coal. The West Cumbria Mining project has been ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A lot of Cumbria could be under water in less than 30 years, according to a climate change study. Large parts of the county could be flooded ...

Since it was founded in the late 1990’s as Eden Local Agenda 21, the charity has grown from a small, local initiative into the a leading voice on climate change action in Cumbria. In 2008 ...