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Whitehaven – a town and its coal

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Birgit Maass
December 18, 2021

Whitehaven in Cumbria was once a stronghold of British coal mining. Its last mine was closed in the mid-1980s. Now there are plans to mine coal again. Climate activists are outraged.

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