Being a natural born pessimist and having zero confidence in WEF appointed Rashi Sanook or the Fake Conservatives, who immediately reversed the lifting of the ban on fracking, I predicted that Whitehaven Colliery would be scrapped by the government in order to virtue signal its good intention re. climate change. I am pleased to say I was wrong.
Michael Gove has given the go ahead for extraction to proceed:
Michael Gove tonight approved Britain's first new coal mine in decades as he gave the go-ahead to a controversial £165million project on the edge of Whitehaven in Cumbria.
The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary accepted a recommendation by an independent planning inspector to grant permission for the mine, which is proposed to be in operation for 50 years.
It is due to produce fuel for use in steelmaking - which the Government insisted would otherwise need to be imported - but not for use in generating electricity.
As the supportive Mail points out, locals are ecstatic about the decision:
Now, though, Whitehaven is about to start digging coal again. And the local reaction? Euphoria.
'I can't begin to describe what a difference this is going to make to the whole area,' says Mike Starkie, the Conservative Mayor of Copeland (which includes Whitehaven).
'More than 90 per cent of the residents are fully supportive and we are looking at 500 direct jobs, not to mention another 1,500 in the supply chain.'
Of course, all the usual suspects (including fake Tories) are ‘furious’ that an economically depressed area of the UK is to be given a boost at the expense of virtue-signalling on the climate:
The news has been greeted with cross-party fury from Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens and a considerable number of Tories too. Environmentalists are appalled. Their objections are met with a shrug on the streets of a town desperate for inward investment and regeneration.
That is because the main objection to West Cumbria Mining's scheme has always been about image rather than substance. 'What sort of a message does it send to the world,' the critics ask, 'if Britain opens a new coal mine?' To which Whitehaven's response could be summed up as follows: 'What sort of a message does it send to the people of the North West if Westminster politicians would rather leave them jobless and just carry on importing the very same stuff from Australia, America and even Russia?' As they instantly point out here in Cumbria, this is not about digging up grubby old thermal coal.
Note that Whitehaven residents are indifferent to the spittle-flecked enviro-rage of the London and South metropolitan-elite. Quite rightly so! I live up here and this gives me great joy to see locals sticking two fingers up to these uber privileged, traitorous eco-fascists who think that British industry, British people and British jobs should be sacrificed to ‘set a good example on climate change’. Screw them and their Marxist agenda based entirely on pseudoscience.
But a word of caution. If Labour get in before operations are up and running, they will cancel the project, because the last thing that Starmer’s metro-luvvie Labour-lite Green globalist politicians are concerned about is working class people in the North of England.
I watched Channel 4 News last night just to see how bad it is. This was their top story and they were in hysterics. These “useful idiots” really seem to believe that we can get rid of coal and all other fossil fuels and that this will somehow “tackle climate change”, which it won’t even if the global climate were controlled by atmospheric CO2, which it isn’t, because most of the rest of world is going to carry on with fossil fuel business as usual. Incredible.
Sooner or later reality begins to bite and the truth dawns, even on politicians. We need energy and digging it up overseas and shipping it here is downright stupid. The people who live in Fluffy Bunny Land have some nasty surprises coming.