This morning West Cumbria Mining’s QC Gregory Jones QC is cross examining SLACC’s witness, Rebekah Diski of the New Economics Foundation. Then a few more “Interested Parties” will speak, followed by a (probably short) cross examination of Mark Kirkbride (WCM CEO) by SLACC’s Junior Counsel, Rowan Clapp. Follow todays Inquiry , or watch previous days […]

The first morning of the Public Inquiry on the Coal Mine heard powerful opening statements from FOE and SLACC barristers, with compelling planning reasons to refuse the mine, and hints of the climate change evidence which both charities will be presenting over the next few weeks. Estelle Dehon, appearing for SLACC, also referred to the

After a four year fight by a tiny Cumbrian charity, and unprecedented national and global concern; a four week inquiry [1] starting on Tuesday 7 September sees a mining giant [2] face public scrutiny of its plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria. South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC) will lead [3] on

The coal that WCM hopes to dig up and sell is not high quality coking coal essential for UK and EU steelmaking: steel making without ANY coal will grow swiftly from 2024: the “substitution argument” that WCM uses to say the mine would not cause additional GHG emissions is economically illiterate: the mine would not

You may have seen reports that West Cumbria Mining’s principal shareholder, the Singapore-based EMR Capital Investment, may drop its support of the project “due to the uncertainty of both the length and outcome of the public inquiry. We have no idea what that would mean for the Public Inquiry, but SLACC’s legal team , our