A new opencast mine at Langton Colliery spoil-heap, near Pinxton, Derbyshire, is being proposed and is part of a wider government policy to reduce the UK’s reliance on imported coal in order to keep our coal-fired power stations running. We are opposing the planning application of this opencast mine because we feel that to keep burning coal and releasing yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is simply ignoring the real issue: climate change.
Climate change is real, it is happening and the historical burning of coal has had a huge part to play in it. By saying “no to new coal” we are asking the government, local and national, to start thinking of ways to reduce climate change, not increase and accelerate it.
