{"id":6170,"date":"2023-01-17T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/in-the-news\/the-uk-is-opening-its-first-coal-mine-in-30-years"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:32:24","slug":"the-uk-is-opening-its-first-coal-mine-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/in-the-news\/the-uk-is-opening-its-first-coal-mine-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK is opening its first coal mine in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot2023-01-17151050_1673957471.png?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The UK has approved a new coal mine 30 years after the last one opened in the country, and seven years after it closed its last deep coal mine.<br\/><br\/><\/strong>The \u00a3165 million project will produce around 2.8 million tons of coal a year\u2014primarily coking coal, which is used in the manufacture of steel.<br\/><br\/>&#8230;Mohamed Adow, the director of Power Shift Africa, a Nairobi think tank, said in a statement: \u201cThe UK claims to be a climate leader but it is trashing its record and making a mockery of its green credentials with this decision.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has approved a new coal mine 30 years after the last one opened in the country, and seven years after it closed its last deep coal mine. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}