On 13 January South Lakes Action on Climate Change [SLACC] lodged papers at the High Court in Manchester launching a legal challenge to the UK government’s recent decision to grant planning permission for a new coal mine in Cumbria. Download QR
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SLACC Trustees made an unanimous decision yesterday (8th January) to ask our legal team to challenge the decision of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities to grant planning permission for the Whitehaven Coal mine to go ahead. We believe there is a strong legal case against the interpretation of planning law*
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Its the 3rd of January 2023, and SLACC has been fighting the proposed coal mine at Whitehaven for 4 years! It looks as if this will continue into 2023 , but we should take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has helped us get to this point. What an amazing bunch of
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. Today, 23rd December 2022, SLACC’s legal team have sent a pre-action letter to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities. This is not a definite commitment to submit a legal challenge. Technically, the challenge is called a “Statutory Review” , not a Judicial Review and certainly not an “Appeal” as some
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Sadly Michael Gove has approved the coal mine. A brief scan of the combined Inspector’s Report and Michael Gove’s decision is deeply depressing. A detailed analysis will need to be done carefully, but it appears that Gove assumes that the number of blast furnaces in the UK will not reduce, and continued use of coking
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4 years ago when SLACC started to oppose this mine, it was hard to get anyone interested. Today we are told it could cause a new Tory split. The truth about this coal, that the UK Steel industry don’t need or want it is on Channel 4, and experts around the world know how much
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