The letter, addressed to the Planning Inspectorate and Derbyshire County Council, asks for two opencast coal mine applications to be rejected, as

“English law enables applications to be refused on the basis that it is not in the local, national or international interest to approve development, as is the situation in these cases.”

Available: http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2985744/global_south_campaigners_tell_uk_planners_no_new_opencast_coal_mines.html