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There are 43 potential New English Opencast Sites

steve46leary@googlemail.com (Steve Leary) | 07.01.2011 22:22

A group in Leicestershire has produced evidence about the current and possible future locations for opencast coal mining in England. In all it identifies 23 Current sites and 43 potential sites, including sites in Co Durham, Northumberland and Gateshead.The evidence is in the form of a two part review and it has been produced to support the arguments for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill which gets its 2nd Reading in the House of Commons on 11/2/11.


steve46leary@googlemail.com (Steve Leary)
- Original article on IMC Northern England: http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/1230