THE decision on Cumbria's new coal mine is due to be made in one weeks time.
A decision on whether to grant planning permission for a controversial new coal mine is due on or before December 8.
Friends of the Earth is urging Communities Secretary Michael Gove, who will make the decision on whether to grant planning permission to the mine, to reject it.
A Planning Inquiry into the coal mine took place in September 2021, where Friends of the Earth was one of the two main parties opposing the application for planning permission – along with local campaign group SLACC (South Lakes Against Climate Change).
Earlier this year, Lord Deben, the chairman of the government's advisory body on climate change, branded the proposed new mine "absolutely indefensible."
A decision on the coal mine has already been postponed three times – the last time shortly before the start of last month’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
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