Is the UK Government serious about reducing carbon dioxide emissions? Permissions are, reportedly, being sought to extract around 3 million tons of coal from behind the sand dunes at Druridge Bay in Northumberland (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/10/take-heed-of-science-minister-urged-to-drop-new-coal-mining-plans). If the minister in London grants the company permissions to operate in this coastal area it will a) confirm that they are only playing lip service to attempting to do something positive about climate change and b) environmental protections in areas outside the SE (they can sometimes be pretty wonky even there) are fairly meaningless.
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