{"id":4154,"date":"2019-03-20T00:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2019-03-20T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:26:22","slug":"go-ahead-for-175m-cumbrian-deep-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/go-ahead-for-175m-cumbrian-deep-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-ahead for \u00a3175m Cumbrian deep coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cumbria County Council has given the green light for a 21st century deep coal mine in Cumbria requiring around \u00a3175m of investment.<\/p>\n

To be known as Woodhouse Colliery, the new underground coking coal mine will be located on a brownfield site near Whitehaven in West Cumbria.<\/p>\n

Radical designs for surface infrastructure will minimise any potential impact from noise, dust and light.<\/p>\n

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Once construction of the mine is completed and Woodhouse Colliery moves into the operational phase, the company plans to extract and process around 2.5 million tonnes of\u00a0high-quality coal for use in the steel industry.<\/p>\n

Over the coming months, The West Cumbria Mining Company will continue to work with the council to finalise conditions, enabling the project to progress to the pre-construction and construction phases.<\/p>\n

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It is anticipated that site work will start before the end of 2019, with coal production commencing around 24-months from the start of construction.<\/p>\n

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WCM will move mined coal via a buried 2.2km long conveyor to a train loading facility, with its own dedicated siding, on the Cumbria Coast railway line.<\/p>\n

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Mark Kirkbride, CEO of West Cumbria Mining said \u201cToday marks a very important milestone in our journey to develop a world class mine in Cumbria and is the culmination of five years of hard work and determination by the WCM team to realise our vision\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe now look forward to moving towards the construction of Woodhouse Colliery and harnessing the extensive mining history and knowledge in West Cumbria to operate a state-of-the-art mine, including the highest levels of health and safety and technology to ultimately realise our vision of becoming a leading European producer of high-quality metallurgical coal for steel making\u201d.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2UKW9ba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cumbria County Council has given the green light for a 21st century deep coal mine in Cumbria requiring around \u00a3175m of investment. To be known as Woodhouse Colliery, the new underground coking coal mine will be located on a brownfield site near Whitehaven in West Cumbria. Radical designs for surface infrastructure will minimise any potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}