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Cumbria coal mine: Public inquiry after government U-turn
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image captionArtist s impression of how the new mine will look
A public inquiry has been announced into plans for the first new deep coal mine in the UK for decades.
The government had previously decided not to intervene in the project near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which was in the hands of local officials.
But ministers have taken control because of increased controversy.
Green campaigners say the mine will increase carbon emissions and send the wrong signal in the run-up to a UK-hosted climate conference in October.
The Woodhouse Colliery would extract coking coal for the steel industry from the seabed off St Bees, with a processing plant at Kells, in Whitehaven.
On Saturday March 6, 2021, an 83-year-old man living in Ogden, Utah died from the effects of a fall. His name was Allan J. McDonald, and you may never have heard of him, but he did something remarkable.
Allan McDonald received a degree in chemical engineering in 1959 from Montana State University, then went to work for Morton-Thiokol, who manufactured the rockets for the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile and later, the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) used by NASA in its space shuttle.
After 26 years with the company, McDonald was on site at Cape Canaveral, Florida to oversee the solid rocket boosters that would power the shuttle Challenger on its tenth flight, which was also the twenty-fifth Space Shuttle flight.
Allan McDonald, engineer and whistleblower in Challenger disaster, dies at 83
He tried to postpone the fateful 1986 space shuttle launch over safety concerns, but was overruled by superiors.
By Emily LangerThe Washington Post
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Allan McDonald, a rocket scientist and whistleblower who refused to sign off on the space shuttle Challenger’s launch over safety concerns and, after its explosion, argued that the tragedy could have been averted had officials heeded warnings from engineers like himself, died March 6 at a hospital in Ogden, Utah. He was 83.
The cause was complications from a recent fall, said his daughter Lora McDonald.
For the millions of Americans who turned on their television sets to watch the Challenger take off on Jan. 28, 1986, the image of the space shuttle blowing apart in midair – killing seven astronauts, including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe – was seared into their memory. The disaster is often described as an event on the order
Cumbria coal mine: Public inquiry after government U-turn
Published
image captionArtist s impression of how the new mine will look
A public inquiry has been announced into plans for the first new deep coal mine in the UK for decades.
The government had previously decided not to intervene in the project near Whitehaven in Cumbria, which was in the hands of local officials.
But ministers have taken control because of increased controversy.
Green campaigners say the mine will increase carbon emissions and send the wrong signal in the run-up to a UK-hosted climate conference in October.
The Woodhouse Colliery would extract coking coal for the steel industry from the seabed off St Bees, with a processing plant at Kells, in Whitehaven.