Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry – or prove it was always a fantasy
Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry – or prove it was always a fantasy: Haig Pit in Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK. Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy Stock Photo West Cumbria suffered a “once-in-a-thousand-year” flood in 2009. And then again in 2015. And 2019. No, it’s not that meteorologists can’t count. Climate change is …