The Cumbria Coal Mine Debacle, UK Climate Policy & Other Snafus – with Chris Friedler of Decarbonise Now

Updated on 2021-07-04 by Adam Hardy

Chris Friedler is a UK environmental lobbyist with Decarbonise Now with an extensive working knowledge of the UK climate policy – if that’s what it can be called nowadays. We talk about climate policy ranging from the new Cumbria coal mine (Britain’s first in decades) to energy policy, housing, transport, electric cars and everything in between.

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Alok Sharma climate policy guru? — Cumbria coal mine: Climate tsar urged to quit over ‘reckless’ plan BBC

Let's see how thick-skinned Boris Johnson is about his ministers' climate-related foobar. Just as the world is cutting back on #coal, the UK & #COP26 leader decides to restart mining for another 30 years. #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition https://t.co/QEw4mtc2Q7
— Carbon Watchdog ????????♻️????⚡ (@carbonwatchdog) February 4, 2021

Look @BorisJohnson, we need a public enquiry in Cumbria. https://t.co/7iJWlOJa8B
— Carbon Watchdog ????????♻️????⚡ (@carbonwatchdog) February 6, 2021

UK gov't minister: "The Secretary of State has to make a judgement based on whether the impacts of the scheme are more than local & in this case the decision was that this was for local determination…" Stupid? Cynical? Probably both. #ClimateChange https://t.co/762S3K2wfS
— Carbon Watchdog ????????♻️????⚡ (@carbonwatchdog) January 30, 2021

I mentioned “Personal Carbon Trading” – here it is explained:

And here: https://ecocore.org/qa-carbon-rationing-explained/

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