Campaigners opposing onshore oil and gas developments in south east England are travelling to Cumbria to join a protest against a new coal mine in Whitehaven.
Representatives of the Weald Action Group will be taking part in a Speakers’ Corner event, a regular demonstration of opposition to the UK’s first deep coal mine for 30 years.
One of the speakers will be Sarah Finch, a campaigner who brought a legal challenge, on behalf of Weald Action Group, against oil production at the Horse Hill site in Surrey.
Her case, which went to the Supreme Court in June 2023 year, centred on whether Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by failing to take account of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the use of Horse Hill oil.
Ms Finch and Weald Action Group have said there are key links between their case and the campaign against the Cumbrian mine.
The mine was granted planning permission in December 2022 by the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove.
In his decision, the minister referred to a judgement at the High Court in Ms Finch’s case. Mr Gove used this to justify excluding greenhouse gas emissions that would arise from burning the coal from the mine’s environmental impact assessment.
If it went ahead, the mine could extract 2.78 million tonnes of coal a year until 2049. Over its lifetime, the coal mine could produce more than 220 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
West Cumbria Mining Ltd, the company behind the mine, intervened in Ms Finch’s case when it went to the Supreme Court.
A legal challenge by Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Against Climate Change has been postponed until after the Supreme Court judgement in Ms Finch’s case.
Lorraine Inglis, of Weald Action Group, said:
“Wherever there is a need to challenge new fossil fuel projects, solidarity and support is an important aspect of our campaigning”.
Other speakers at the speakers’ corner, on Saturday 9 September, include representatives from: Green Labour/Anti-Capitalist Resistance/XR Trade Union group; Extinction Rebellion North Lakes; Greener Jobs Alliance; the Pont Valley Campaign; and the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group.
The event is from noon-2pm, at the Marchon site, Wilson Pit Road, Whitehaven. Details
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DRILL OR DROP? 
Wonder how they will all travel???
I imagine that the only feasible method of travel given the incompetence and failures of this government and others in obsequious pursuance of the FF industry’s obstructive and self-interested tactics will be ff-driven vehicles. Prestige projects and pricing have rendered rail inaccessible to many who might otherwise have used it.
Co2 is the gas of life. AGW is the new religion for the crazies…
AGW, Mike?
OMG!
Have you just been copying and pasting for many months, 1720?
Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Strange that there would be more reference to that phrase by yourself (?) on DoD than anyone else, and now it is a mystery to yourself. What a wonderful world.
My ignorance was of the acronym, Martin, as well you know (!), not of the phrase or indeed the phenomenon, (as well you know). I have never encountered this before.
Thanks for the elucidation. I can see it might be useful.
Many of us on the other hand can manage without the feigned surprise – ‘OMG!’ – best left to sections of the Murdoch press.
“I have never encountered this before.”
That is indeed a surprise, 1720, as it is so widely used the meaning will be observed immediately upon plonking it into a search engine! Perhaps the other many of us, or them, did just that to use the Internet for information rather than misinformation?
(OMG! was also widely used by pensioners previously employed by the Maxwell press. You do try some swampy ground to place your political soap box upon and it is a source of amusement you continually want to go there, so thanks for that. Meanwhile, the investment into the railways is still at an all time high. That is just a fact. Whether it should be is another matter. I feel it should be from an environmental perspective but the travelling public are not wanting to use it so much, so time will tell. Maybe a new offer, like a fast speed link north from London might entice travelers back onto the railway?)
That would be coherent, 1720, if you had not previously tried to argue your opposition against HS2.
Once again you demonstrate all you wish to do is????? Demonstrate!
No answers, just a wish to take part in something must be done nonsense. Interesting though that you imply the “we’s” are so committed yet they are unwilling to invest themselves in EVs. Yes, it is indeed difficult to keep the hypocrisy at arms length.
HS2 is one of the prestige projects. Think!
I think you’ll find I did answer your pseudo question.
Nice to see you back with the old well-exercised invective though.
No, you might think that, but no you didn’t.
A prestige project to go alongside a lot of other bog standard projects. The prestige project providing the speed-hopefully-that others projects may not, therefore supplying an alternative to short haul flights, and motorways.
Nice to see you back with the old incoherent nonsense that shows an ability to produce any solutions.
If incoherence is what you’re looking for, try your last sentence.
You have a problem with any solutions? Perhaps if I added, that don’t add up and obey the laws of physics it may clarify to yourself.
Your classic of an after death conversion by the late Chief Scientific Officer, just at the time when his pre death comments were being shown to be completely accurate, is indeed any solution, or facts have to have already happened or all that travelling to protest that HMG had lied during the Brexit referendum are indeed any solution to a situation. They just happen to be incoherent, and incorrect. With the Brexit one it was correct, in that they lied that staying in would enable changes to be made going forward, but protesting about that after they lost the referendum was indeed incoherent.
Then, there were your previous posts around HS2 and your post of 10.46am today.
Consistent? Yes. Coherent? No.
I think you have redefined ‘coherence’ if you imagine that this last post would satisfy the criteria for this quality. GCSE grade boundaries are rising which might pose a significant problem for you next year should you decide to make any similar submission.
In so far as they are comprehensible, your other charges have already been addressed. You seem to have had no difficulty in understanding them in the past [Edited by moderator]
Ahh, the usual from 1720.
Doesn’t understand the subject, then resorts to his/her/whatever English superiority-although definition of a “fact” was a previous difficulty and should be the basis for most communication-then paints into the corner, then retires!
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