Despite Michael Gove’s approval of the new Cumbrian coal mine in December 2022, there has been no start on the Whitehaven site, and no Court Hearing of our legal challenge against Gove’s decision. This timeline produced by Coal Action Network starts from 2014 and includes the main action in 2023. We now expect a High […]
SLACC’s campaign to stop the coal mine continues into 2024! Read More »
You have probably heard that the “rolled up” hearing of our legal challenge of Michael Gove’s decision to approve the new coal mine at Whitehaven is scheduled for 3 days in October. It will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. There are 3 possibilities: a) the Court will decide there is
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South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC) today (17th May) welcomed a ruling from High Court judge Mrs Justice Thornton DBE, which means that the two legal challenges to the decision of the Secretary of State to grant permission for a new coal mine at Whitehaven, Cumbria will go forward to a three-day hearing in
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Its the 3rd of January 2023, and SLACC has been fighting the proposed coal mine at Whitehaven for 4 years! It looks as if this will continue into 2023 , but we should take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has helped us get to this point. What an amazing bunch of
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. Today, 23rd December 2022, SLACC’s legal team have sent a pre-action letter to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing and Communities. This is not a definite commitment to submit a legal challenge. Technically, the challenge is called a “Statutory Review” , not a Judicial Review and certainly not an “Appeal” as some
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4 years ago when SLACC started to oppose this mine, it was hard to get anyone interested. Today we are told it could cause a new Tory split. The truth about this coal, that the UK Steel industry don’t need or want it is on Channel 4, and experts around the world know how much
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The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) issued a new deadline for their decision on the coal mine proposed at Whitehaven. It will now be “on or before 8th December”. It is possible but unlikely that Michael Gove, back in the job as Minister for DLUHC, is seriously considering refusal. However this morning
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We were expecting a decision on the Cumbria Coal Mine on or before the 7th July but, at 3.30 pm on the 6th, received an email from the department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) saying the decision would be delayed. The reason for the delay got clearer as the day progressed! Today, on
Coal Mine Decision Delayed Read More »
Quick update of our last blogpost – The Courts are now looking at possible “listing dates” for the 3 day Hearing in the High Court. This won’t be easy as the Government Legal Department, West Cumbria Mining, Friends of the Earth and ourselves at South Lakes Action on Climate Change all have key legal advocates
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Update on project scoping for a community cargo bike/ E-bike library Following the Woolly Saddle Cargo bike trial in 2022, Jo Haughton has been scoping phase 2 of the project since Autumn last year on the basis that further test activity and insight gathering is required. A secure storage location is needed first and foremost,
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As regular readers know, South Lakes Action on Climate Change is embroiled in a Legal Challenge of the UK governments decision to approve a new deep coal mine at Whitehaven in Cumbria. We are waiting for a 3-day Hearing at the High Court, but that process has been “stuck” because the Supreme Court still hasn’t
West Cumbria Mining try to hurry things up! Read More »
On the 18th January this year, a Norwegian court upheld a case taken by Greenpeace Norway and Young Friends of the Earth Norway, and ruled that approvals of three new oil and gas fields were invalid because they were not in accordance with Norwegian law or with a European Directive. The case centred on whether
Norway shows the way? Read More »
Slacc would like to recruit more trustees to support exciting new developments in 2024. Trustees serve a three year term of office which can be renewed. Among the Trustees specific roles are allocated for a Chair, a secretary and a treasurer. Trustees formally meet every 2 months, along with the AGM. To find out more about
