What impact will planned new UK coal mine have on carbon emissions?

The UK is set to get its first new deep coal mine in three decades after the government approved plans for a project in Cumbria, despite widespread opposition on environmental grounds.

But the project has faced fierce opposition from scientists and environmental campaigners, who argue the UK should be investing in green steel technologies rather than supporting a new fossil fuel scheme.It has been under pressure from local Conservative MPs to allow the mine for years, with supporters arguing it will bring around 500 much-needed jobs to the area. But it shied away from making the decision while the UK was leading global climate talks, a role that officially ended last month.

In fact, it is estimated that only between 10 and 20 per cent of the coal extracted from Woodhouse Colliery will be used for steelmaking in the UK. The government argues the proposed development “will have a broadly neutral effect on the global release of greenhouse gas emissions from coal used in steel making”. In fact, the CCC said the mine would increase UK carbon dioxide emissions by 400,000 tonnes a year, and once the emissions from burning the extracted coal are taken into account, the equivalent to 220 million tonnes of CO2 will be emitted over the course of its 25-year life.

Great common sense news.

environmentalist… queue those who protest in their petro-built kayak

Now they can get some of the Free Money from the carbon tax sent courtesy of the good old WOKE -UP USA. (Somebody wake me up)

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