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Howburn Digger wrote: nigelswift wrote: Quarry companies are the antithesis of meganuts, they destroy loads of stuff and employ highly paid lawyers to fight all attempts to stop them while saying they'll fill the hole to supply a water park. They used to pay blood money in compensation, the Aggregates Levy, but that's just been cancelled as part of the financial shake-up and because they're friends with the Tories. The number of people in DEFRA dealing with archaeology has been decimated. The govt. is about to make it possible to fast-track applications to quarry places. EH's capacity to fight them has been vastly reduced by funding cuts. The only thing that hasn't changed is that local councillors ALWAYS vote in support of the quarrying, as Google will quickly confirm. Don't ask me how, it must be magic. They dont always win. We beat Patersons plans to extract 5 million tons of sand and gravel from a 90 acre site on the Clyde floodplain just below Tinto Hill. The Clyde River Action Group (CRAG) beat the quarrymen, stopped them in their tracks and halted their foul plans. It was a privilege being a part of the campaign. http://www.crag.uk.com/ The council did NOT vote in support of the quarrymen for once. Communities are seldom victorious when they take on the might of the quarry industry. The quarry industry fight dirty and play legal hardball. They play games, they intimidate. But sometimes they get beaten back and get their noses bloodied. Talk about timing! I learned today that Patersons of Greenoakhill yesterday resubmitted their planning application to extract 5 million tons of sand and gravel from the 90 acre valley floor river bank site below Tinto. http://www.crag.uk.com/ This has to be one of the most beautiful sections of the upper Clyde valley. Wonderful trout fishing with its banks abounding in wildlife from otters to sand martins. Heavy hearted today at the battle beginning again. But that is what these companies do... they try to tire people of the fight. Get people to lose the will and drop the effort and the struggle. We could go from this http://www.crag.uk.com/picture[...]20at%20Overburns%20webedit.jpg To this http://www.crag.uk.com/pictures/big/Patersons%20site.jpg No chance. Reply | with quote |  21st January 2011ce 16:41 In reply to: Re: Seahenge (Howburn Digger) |
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