Coal mine just a distraction

Published date09 March 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Many people who are concerned about climate change were dismayed that Michael Gove gave the green light to a new coal mine in Cumbria. His claim, that it would reduce the emissions from importing coal by ship, was always nonsense

To make the mine viable, most of the coal output would need to be shipped abroad, which would lead to more coal loaded onto ships than is the case today.

Neither was the coal needed and the government knew it because the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy were confidently advising the government that the steel industry would be moving away from using coal. And they were right because it's what the steel industry was telling them.

Tata Steel recently announced that its coal-based blast furnaces at Port Talbot are no longer...

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