Cumbria and the Coal Mine | Short Film | 4K
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Created as part of the 2023 Musicbed Challenge, 'Cumbria and the Coal Mine' visits the Coastal Town of Whitehaven in Cumbria, North West England - gaining local insight into recently approved government plans to open up a new coal mine in the area.
In what will be the UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years, with Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove greenlighting the £165m project in December 2022, with the aim of creating 500 new jobs in the region.
However, the mine is also estimated to produce 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year - with staunch protests against the opening of a new mine in the wake of a global climate crisis .
In this short film, Whitehaven resident Julie Pennington and fellow members of the local community express their views on the planned new mine and how it will impact life in the harbour town...
With special thanks to BBC North East and Cumbria for special permission to use archive news footage on the story.
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Following approval on the mine in late 2022, Friends of the Earth has joined South Lakes Action on Climate Change in submitting papers to the High Court - calling for a statutory review of the decision to approve the mine.
For more details on the mine, see links below:
Friends of the Earth: friendsoftheea...
South Lakes Action on Climate: slacc.org.uk/
West Cumbria Mining: www.westcumbri...
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Why they didn’t just leave Kellingley open, I don’t know. There was years of coal left down there!
I do believe the coal is good for coking in Whitehaven, I think Kellingly was for power station usage and not coking.
It seems that many have slipped into a form of learned helplessness and are seemingly unable to think for themselves.
A question I ask any environemtalist in debate is, how much warmer does the climate need to become before we can go back to Greenland and resume dairy farming like the Norse did for over four hundred years, during the medieval warming period.
Same can be said for Kellingsley. Get it built to further ourselves.
The UK has only mined a tiny percentage of what coal it stands upon. The reason government was so keen to flatten the pits after they closed was to ensure that untapped reserves could never be won. Several mines in NE England were just feet away from opening up some vast untapped reserves. Other mines in Central England had the opportunity to open up a vast coal seam that stretches from England to Belgium beneath the North Sea.
Coal can be used cleanly. Government refused to allow the technology to be utilised. Just look at the energy mess and lack of money that the UK now has. All of the problems are aimed at an inept government.
Until they come up with a cleaner, economic way of producing steel, surely it makes sense to bring it from West Cumberland to Port Talbot, instead of bringing it from overseas (which in itself causing carbon emissions ) and in the process, creating jobs in the Whitehaven area.
The sulphur content of this coal is too high for it to be usable at Port Talbot in any notable quantity.
And once you open a new coal mine, it starts emitting methane from the coal seam. That more than outweights the small emissions benefit from not bringing coal in from overseas
Bringing any material across the world that we already have in copious amounts is not sustainable, what is happening is the entire global resources are owned and controlled by a small band of men and women who care little for the climate and the people involved, we are no longer in control our wherewithall and need to regroup and take back those raw materials and how we do things, it is not about climate but control of our whole.
@@pwithnall Wrong on so many levels. Not all coal mines produce methane. Go do some proper research.
Dig it up !!!!👍
Them protestors are nothing but annoying. Some broke the huge gates to that land to put up tents etc. Also they drive high emission vehicles from where ever they come from, not local at all.
This ^^. They're the same crowd of puppets who travel the country emitting tons of CO2 in their quest to appear useful.
It seems quite oblivious to some folks that argue that carbon dioxide is causing the weather to fluctuate. Heaven forbid that the temperature changes……
Mean while towns loose workers and can’t afford to pay for electricity to warm or cool their homes.
The world has been sold a lemon for the last 30 years.
Food on the table or an average temperature change of a few degrees?
A towns revival or a change of a few degrees in temperature?
A sickening unaffordable housing market that the youth cannot afford or a few degrees in temperature?
Can someone tell me please, what are we fighting for?
I call bollocks on the folks afraid of the weather.
I say God bless the sailors that brought the grains through Cape Horns raging tempests.
Whether the climate changes a few degrees in temperature over the course of a year, ten years or a century. We will over come.
I truly believe that guilting and shaming people is being used
to sell this ludicrous idea that the shy is falling.
In Australia the conservationists that championed the idea of saving critically endangered animals was front and centre of the Australian Green Party lead by Bob Brown. His party born in Tasmania was elected into parliament on that ideal of conservation.
Would it shock readers to learn that the small bird that migrated from the state of Victoria to Tasmania in critically endangered numbers are now being pushed off its migratory habitat in Tasmania to make way for giant wind turbines.
The sheer absurdity is astounding.
I say good luck and god bless Whitehaven for its hard working people and its precious resource. I hope and pray that it’s not too late to save the town.
Love from Australia 🇦🇺
I work in the coal mines of the Bowen Basin.
Get the mine in and generate prosperity for everyone local to benefit from. If the place is left to die then that will happen way before the effects of any alleged global warming.
Better to explore other options for job creation in Whitehaven instead
@@pwithnall What options are those, particularly when they are gifted by the minerals beneath their feet.
@@davidcoleman6032 Well you could lobby to be the location of a H2-DRI or arc steel mill… The coal isn’t an unconditional gift, it’s got pretty serious negative consequences too, and even if it went ahead the jobs would only last for 27 years before it has to close down in 2050. That puts Whitehaven straight back in the same position as now.
The coal industries in this country should have never been closed
Lets get it built & hope its the first of many ,this country was built on coal ,we should be looking at carbon capture & cleaner burning of it not banning it
This country was also built on slavery but that doesn’t mean we should bring it back. Out of the two options for clean steel production (carbon capture, and hydrogen reduction), hydrogen reduction is a lot closer to being used at production scale. Carbon capture technology is a long way off being production scale.
Singapore burns all its trash and uses it to generate energy
Climate crisis? It's July and the the weather is utter shite! Freezing, wet and dire!
Turn the music OFF.
All the people in favour of the mine are people that would never dream of working in it. I've never encountered even yan person who is for the mine and wants to make a career of it.
I’d go back in the ministry
You've clearly not spoken to locals who support it.
It's a good thing, get people back to work. 😊
As an ex coal miner i dont agree with the planning permission being granted. The employment angle, how many experienced miners live in Whitehaven when the last colliery closed in the 80's, its not a job you can walk into inexperienced and people dont know what its like to work underground, miners will need to be brought in to work in the mine, its a skilled job, dont be fooled into thinking its the answer to the unemployment problem.Old king coal has had its day, fossil fuels are not the answer any more
There's still an anthracite mine in South Wales and us younger men would love an opportunity to work in a modern mine - we know bad ground and can train locals
Go away
Completely wrong! There is no such thing as fossil fuels and mankind activities have no impact on climate!