Energy & Science
U.K.’s First New Deep Coal Mine In Three Decades Approved
- Cumbria County Council votes in favor of Woodhouse Colliery
- Campaigners say plans undermine net zero greenhouse gas goal
Photographer: Suzanne Plunkett/Bloomberg
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The U.K.’s first new deep coal mine in three decades was approved on Friday, despite a government law to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by mid-century.
A meeting of Cumbria County Council in the northwest of England voted by 12 votes to three in favor of the Woodhouse Colliery, which will extract as much as 3.1 million tons of metallurgical coal each year to use in steelmaking.