A view of the former Woodhouse Colliery site where West Cumbria Mining are seeking approval to once again extract coal Getty Images
“Consign coal to history,” said UK prime minister Boris Johnson, responding to a landmark climate science report last year. A few months later at the COP26 climate summit, the world committed to accelerating the “phase-out” of coal power. Just last month, John Gummer, the head of the UK’s independent Climate Change Committee (CCC), said: “As far as the coal mine in Cumbria is concerned, let’s be absolutely clear, it is …
