At Last,

the voice of sanity,

pictured: An artist's impression of the Woodhouse Colliery, Britain's first new deep coal mine in over 30 years will be situated in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick intervened in March to call in plans for the construction of Woodhouse Colliery near Whitehaven, Britain's first new deep coal mine in over 30 years, Northern Tory MPs and the local council had backed the project, arguing it would bring 500 much-needed jobs and investment to the region, the announcement came after Cumbria County Council said it would reconsider the application by WCM to mine for coking coal for use in steel production in light of new information on proposed greenhouse gas targets for the 2030s from Government climate advisers, WCM said the underground mine, to be known as Woodhouse Colliery, will supply the British and European steel industry with locally produced coking coal until 2049 and will create 532 direct and 1,618 indirect jobs, it aims principally to target steelworks in the UK, North Sea and Baltic markets which, it says, currently predominantly use imported metallurgical coal from North America, Australia and Russia, seems like a great plan, we are a island nation built on coal and surrounded by sea, and we ignore both of these natural resources, and before we forget how important coal is, the National Grid was forced to turn on one of its coal-burning power plants to meet energy demands, energy firm EDF was requested to turn on its two coal units at West Burton A power station in Nottinghamshire after wind power failed to meet requirements, for the full story have a look here, I just hope Boris and the evergreen Princess Nut Nut keep their noses out of any decisions.