Cumbria coalmine plans pit climate protection against job creation

Local divisions over Woodhouse Colliery scheme echo rows playing out at national level

Plans for the UK's first deep coalmine in more than 30 years have led to local divisions in Cumbria, even as it becomes an international issue over the country's climate change commitments.

James Hansen, one of the world's foremost voices on the climate, this week took the unusual step of sending Boris Johnson a strongly worded letter warning that if the mine was allowed to proceed it would lead to ignominy and humiliation" for the UK.