Woodhouse Colliery. The Carbon Carbuncle?
Please note that the event on May 12 2022, is now postponed until after the decision on the mine is announced by Michael Gove, Secretary of State of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Controversial plans for Woodhouse Colliery, the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years
Woodhouse Colliery. The Great Carbon Carbuncle?
Ciara Shannon considers some of the carbon risks if Woodhouse Colliery were to go ahead and highlights some alternative opportunities. She ends by thinking about the area's sizeable, historical carbon debt.
One Hell of a Plant that Could Help Save the Planet
Ciara Shannon considers the multiple carbon opportunities of bracken including its potential as an alternative to peat, its carbon storage, its role as a feedstock for bioethanol, it being a marker of ancient woodlands and where to replace it with new woodlands.