Cumbria coal mine: Tory MPs urge council to give plans the green light
More than 40 Conservative MPs are calling for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years to be given the go-ahead.
Plans to open the West Cumbria mine are on hold over climate change concerns.
Cumbria County Council had originally backed the scheme but is now reviewing its decision.
The MPs - many from former mining areas in the North of England - say blocking the project would pose "a serious risk to Cumbria's economic growth".
In a letter to the council's Labour leader, they argue that the mine, in Whitehaven, West Cumbria, would fall "within the government agendas for net-zero carbon emission by 2050.
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