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 HIGH Court ruling on plans to build a controversial new coal mine in West Cumbria will be handed down tomorrow. Legal challenges by ...

THE government has said that there was an "error of law" in granting planning permission for the west Cumbria coal mine and has pulled its defence of the decision in ...

The fate of the West Cumbria Mining project ... proposed site of the UK's first major coal mine in more than 40 years. The mine near Whitehaven in Cumbria would dig up coking coal for steel ...

Legal challenges have been submitted to the government in opposition to the decision to approve a new coal mine near Whitehaven. Friends of the Earth has joined South Lakes Action on Climate ...

Michael Gove gave permission for the mine near Whitehaven, West Cumbria, in December 2022 It was the first new coal mine to be approved in 30 years Supporters welcomed promised jobs but critics ...

West Cumbria Mining’s attempt to open a new coal mine at Whitehaven, Cumbria was dealt a blow today, as a senior High Court judge ruled that the planning permission granted by Michael Gove ...

Westmorland and Lonsdale Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron said the country's two largest steel manufacturers did not want the coking coal the mine near Whitehaven in West Cumbria would produce.

The Woodhouse Colliery, owned by West Cumbria Mining, will extract coking coal for steelmaking, which ministers say would otherwise be imported. The coal would be from seams under the Irish Sea ...

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Michael Gove gave permission for the mine near Whitehaven, West Cumbria, in December 2022 It was the first new coal mine to be approved in 30 years Supporters welcomed promised jobs but critics ...