New Deep Coal Mine in Cumbria - Why?

One can't help but feel that the granting of planning approval for a new deep coal mine near Whitehaven is a retrograde step. Sure, the area requires new investment for regeneration but there must be more imaginative ways of achieving that. And it hardly helps the pursuit of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C 'cos I bet the steel plants that are the proposed recipients of the mine's output are not fitted with any CCS capability. More joined up thinking - not!