UK Coal to hold public consultation meeting on plans to open cast coal in Nottinghamshire.  Meetings will be at Trowell Parish Hall 17th October 10am till 2pm and 21st October Awsworth Village Hall 4pm till 8pm 

Last year the Evening Post ran an article based on information gathered by a Freedom of Information request that UK Coal were intending to put an application to open cast mine for coal in Cossall (between Trowell and IKEA).  The article was a bit previous since nothing happened.  Howevewr it was not wrong.  Yesterday I got a phone call from the local MP to say that UK Coal are holding a public consultation meeting to show us all how really open cast mining is nothing to worry about and all the stories about lorries, pollution and health effects are just scaremongering.  This is the first step.  After that comes (techy jargon alert) a scoping report and an environmental impact assessment - this has to be submitted with the planning application.  So, we need loads of people at the public consultation meetings to show that UK Coal are not welcome in Nottinghamshire.

Dates are: Sunday 17th Oct Trowell Parish Hall, Stapleford Road  10am till 2pm

Thursday 21st October Awsworth Village Hall, The Lane, Awsworth 4pm till 8pm