We’re going to court - by Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin

#UK #environment #climate #pollution #greenwashing

Former Conservative energy minister Chris Skidmore has weighed in on Democracy for Sale’s side to call for the release of a confidential document that paved the way for the green-lighting of a contentious coal mine.

For more than a year, we have been trying to force the government to publish the evidence and rationale provided to minister Michael Gove before he gave the go-ahead to build a new “net zero” coal mine at Whitehaven, in Cumbria.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/coal-mine-court-skidmore-democracy-for-sale