Qualla: Woodhouse Colliery https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Woodhouse Colliery https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery Woodhouse Colliery: Introduction https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery/ The site was a former chemical works at the south edge of Whitehaven, near the shaft of Haig Colliery, which had stopped mining coal in March 1986. The proposal was to sink a new deep mine beneath the Irish Sea — the first in England in more than three decades — and extract coking coal for steelmaking for 25 years. Backers said it would bring 500 jobs to a deprived corner of West Cumbria. Opponents said it would lock Britain into more coal at exactly the moment the country had promised to stop burning it. Both sides were partly right, and that is why the argument lasted as long as it did.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/q/woodhouse-colliery-wp/gctq-woodhouse-colliery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Woodhouse Colliery: The Case for the Mine https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery/ West Cumbria Mining, owned by Australia-based EMR Capital, framed the project as practical patriotism. The UK imports around six million tonnes of coal a year for coke production at steel plants, and none of it comes from Europe; most arrives from Australia or the United States. ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/q/woodhouse-colliery-wp/gctq-woodhouse-colliery-the-case-for-the-mine.mp3 0:06 2 full Woodhouse Colliery: The Case Against https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery/ Climate scientists and environmental campaigners were less impressed. Greta Thunberg said approval revealed the true emptiness of 'net zero 2050' as a target. James Hansen, the former NASA Goddard Institute director who first warned Congress about climate change in 1988, called t...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/q/woodhouse-colliery-wp/gctq-woodhouse-colliery-the-case-against.mp3 0:06 3 full Woodhouse Colliery: Approvals, Appeals, and the Long Wait https://qualla.com/woodhouse-colliery/ The planning saga ran for years. Cumbria County Council approved the project, then approved it again, then approved it a third time in October 2020. The Secretary of State first declined to intervene, then in March 2021 called the application in for review. Michael Gove, succeedi...

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