The Conservative Party (UK government) plans to open a coal mine in #Cumbria, #Whitehaven, #England should be regraded as criminal (but their the government).

Science says we must stop burning coal etc. Many locations, including Cumbria - are experiening the effects if #climate change (e.g., more flooding). Opening a #coal mine is evidence of the Conservative Party's association's with the fossil fuel industries (I.e., they're evidently corrupt & it shows).

"“I think the government underestimates people’s grasp of the nature of the climate crisis that we are living in, to be honest. I do think that you need to recognise that nearly every town in Cumbria has suffered flooding"

I think some of the Conservative "higher ranking" politicians know about the threats of the climate crisis. As do the Fossil fuel industries (own memo's). They do it anyway (invest in infrastructure, etc, that degrades & pollutes the environment)

The Conservatives are part of the Fossil fuel extraction self protect racket.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/09/cumbria-coalmine-protests-planned-as-local-opposition-grows

#Cumbriacoalmine #FossilFuels
#politics #AirPollution #ClimateChange

RT @JustStop_Oil
⛄🎄 YOU'RE INVITED TO THE LAST SLOW MARCH BEFORE CHRISTMAS

🧣🧤 Join us for a wintery walk and say no to the #CumbriaCoalMine.

❗Meet at 7.30am outside the gates to Finsbury Park, by Manor House station. w3w ///added.remedy.tests.

🦺 Banners + hi-vis provided. Wrap up warm.

RT @JustStop_Oil@twitter.com

⛄🎄 YOU'RE INVITED TO THE LAST SLOW MARCH BEFORE CHRISTMAS

🧣🧤 Join us for a wintery walk and say no to the #CumbriaCoalMine.

❗Meet at 7.30am outside the gates to Finsbury Park, by Manor House station. w3w ///added.remedy.tests.

🦺 Banners + hi-vis provided. Wrap up warm.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1602711639199211520

The lesson of the #CumbriaCoalMine: “climate ambition, economic regeneration & help for neglected communities like West Cumbria must be one & the same thing”. ⁦‪⁦‪ This was written in May 2021. It is worth rereading. #ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/27/dig-coal-to-save-the-climate-the-folly-of-cumbrias-plans-for-a-new-coalmine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RT @DoctorsXr
Outside Downing Street yesterday. Fossil Fuels are a dead end. Alok Sharma has summarised why the most recent government failure- the #Cumbriacoalmine is such a bad idea 👇 https://twitter.com/aloksharma_rdg/status/1598985110879055873

RT @XRebellionUK@twitter.com

No one wants this mine
No one needs this mine
To open a coalmine in a #ClimateEmergency is, as @CarolineLucas@twitter.com says, "a crime against humanity."

Through the law, through people power, through direct action, we will stop the #cumbriacoalmine

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/08/government-approves-cumbria-coalmine-legal-challenge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/XRebellionUK/status/1600760721406853120

RT @JustStop_Oil@twitter.com

🎄 UNHAPPY WITH COAL FOR CHRISTMAS?

🔥 When it comes to fuelling climate breakdown, it's clear this government doesn't give a shit.

🦺 We have one route left. Sign up for direct action: http://bit.ly/JSOaction2

#CumbriaCoalMine #Coal #NoNewFossilFuels #A22Network #JustStopOil

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1600562608910012416

RT @AJPendleton: I’ve not followed the #cumbriacoalmine debacle closely, but a very cursory look at the project reveals 80%+ of the coking coal is expected to be exported - and why wouldn’t it be? So the energy security defence is clearly nonsense (as it is with fracking).

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1600803856639983617

RT @XRebellionUK
No one wants this mine
No one needs this mine
To open a coalmine in a #ClimateEmergency is, as @CarolineLucas says, "a crime against humanity."

Through the law, through people power, through direct action, we will stop the #cumbriacoalmine

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/08/government-approves-cumbria-coalmine-legal-challenge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

“Absolutely indefensible”: Lord Deben, UK government’s independent #ClimateAdviser & chair of UK Climate Change Committee. #CumbriaCoalMine #ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/cumbria-coalmine-approval-shows-sunak-does-not-care-if-he-is-seen-as-green

RT @XRebellionUK@twitter.com

No one wants this mine
No one needs this mine
To open a coalmine in a #ClimateEmergency is, as @CarolineLucas@twitter.com says, "a crime against humanity."

Through the law, through people power, through direct action, we will stop the #cumbriacoalmine

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/08/government-approves-cumbria-coalmine-legal-challenge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/XRebellionUK/status/1600760721406853120

#CumbriaCoalMine 😡

It's particularly galling for those living in rural Cumbria, where most villages have no mains gas so we rely on imported coal based products which have doubled in price & wood products some of which have trebled in price or are unavailable, & for whom there'll be none of the alleged economic benefits that this environmental monster is supposed to bring to the area.

Someone in a senior decision making position has personal interests & stands to gain from this I suspect.

RT @JustStop_Oil
🎄 UNHAPPY WITH COAL FOR CHRISTMAS?

🔥 When it comes to fuelling climate breakdown, it's clear this government doesn't give a shit.

🦺 We have one route left. Sign up for direct action: http://bit.ly/JSOaction2

#CumbriaCoalMine #Coal #NoNewFossilFuels #A22Network #JustStopOil

This is why the #CumbriaCoalMine is insane, and is all about short term politics and not about the future for #Whitehaven. Really saddened by this decision. #NoFutureForCoal

RT @JustStop_Oil
🎄 UNHAPPY WITH COAL FOR CHRISTMAS?

🔥 When it comes to fuelling climate breakdown, it's clear this government doesn't give a shit.

🦺 We have one route left. Sign up for direct action: http://bit.ly/JSOaction2

#CumbriaCoalMine #Coal #NoNewFossilFuels #A22Network #JustStopOil

UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria.
Appalling decision by UK Government. #NoNewCoal #ClimateEmergency #CumbriaCoalMine

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Funny how Tory right wing want to reopen coalmining. Don't they remember their own history?
#CumbriaCoalmine
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/03/alok-sharma-cumbria-coal-mine-backward-step-government-climate-expert

#Cumbriacoalmine fact 5:

6 months ago at @COP26, the world agreed to "phase down coal", & the PM himself said "I don't want more coal" - but now Govt wants to phase it back in

Yet more broken climate promises

Tag & tweet your MP 📝:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59710

#keepitintheground

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1542900624408412167

#Cumbriacoalmine fact 4:

This mine will pump 9 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere *every year*

That's more emissions than Edinburgh, Cardiff & Belfast combined

We're in a climate emergency - we must #keepitintheground

Tag & tweet your MP 📝:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59710/planned-coalmine-in-whitehaven-cumbria

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1542779574429310976

#Cumbriacoalmine fact 3:

The steel industry is rapidly transitioning to fossil-fuel-free green steel - so demand for coking coal is plummeting

This mine will be practically redundant before it even opens

Tag & tweet your MP 📝:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59710

#keepitintheground

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1542181722963542016