Cumbria Coal Mine Campaign

Cumbria CC’s Development Control and Regulation Committee has, in effect, withdrawn it’s previous decision to approve the Whitehaven Coal MIne, in order to allow West Cumbria Mining to submit revised proposals which they think will be harder to challenge in the courts.   The deadline for objections is 15 June. SLACC will be submitting a further […]

Richard Buxton Solicitors have written an urgent legal letter to Cumbria County Council on behalf of South Lakes Action on Climate Change, detailing how we believe the granting of planning permission to West Cumbria Mining for the new coal mine at Whitehaven would be unlawful. A full copy of the Letter can be found here,

South Lakes Action on Climate Change – towards transition (SLACCtt) request that the Secretary of State “call in” the following planning application for his own consideration. Here you can find a copy of the SLACC letter to the Planning Casework Unit (March 2019) We look forward to hearing from the Planning Casework Unit and sincerely hope that

Cumbria County Council (CCC) have postponed the hearing for the proposed coal mine at to Tuesday 19 March Please click below for online updates of the date of the hearing and any associated protests  Coal mining has got to be stopped. The carbon emissions from this proposal would be large enough to scupper aims for Cumbria to become

Laurie  Michaelis was a Lead Author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including the Special Report on Emission Scenarios.  He continues to serve as an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC, including the Special Report on Global Warming 1.5°C currently in development. Laurie is the Quakers for Sustainability expert and he has written to Cumbria County