Anyone any experience of opencast/quarries opening next door to them?
It has just been proposed by Banks mining that they are going to extract 750000 tonnes of coal by opencast and it is only 300yards at its nearest point from the housing estate.
We already have 2 opencasts at the other end of the estate and the noise and dust is annoying now.
I'm furious at this proposal, nobody seems to care about the residents here and the quality of life.
We have a facebook site open http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=350357131914#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=350357131914 for discussion and we are looking for info etc, maybe even health reports linking these sort of mining operations to ill health etc if anyone has experience in that area.
Also I would like to ask you to visit the 10 Downing street site where we have started a petition against it and add your name if you disagree with what they are doing. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/FerneybedsOC/
People are at an all time low here and can only see at least 6 years of misery in what is otherwise a nice quiet village.
The following picture shows existing opencast sites, an old landfill site and sites where they carried out the burning and burial sites for foot and mouth. We really have been raped here.
Cheers mate. Have you joined the facebook site?
I wouldn't mind a return to "proper" mining, but as you say, the smash and grab tactic of quarrying seems the way to go. And it's not as if they bring in hundreds of landscape gardeners afterwards, they do the minimum acceptable, so here they turn what is a beautiful landscape into a bland manmade mismatch.