Digging Up Trouble

Environment, Protest and Open-cast Mining

By: Huw Beynon, Andrew Cox, Ray Hudson

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Paperback | 1 January 2000

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This work on environmental planning focuses on open-cast mining. It addresses the issues around open-cast mining that are central to the context of social science debate: risk; the division of public and private; environmental protest and politics; and new social movements.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Other Technologies & Applied Sciences Mining Technology & Engineering Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Conservation of The Environment Economics Political Economy Industry & Industrial Studies Primary Industries Mining Industry

Energy Industries & Utilities Coal & Solid Fuel Industries Waste Management Regional & Area Planning Urban & Municipal Planning Society & Social Sciences

Glossary of terms and abbreviations
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Two Industries in One: Opencast and Deep Mining	p. 9
Historical Origins
The Plan for Coal
The Expansion of Opencast Production
Changing Parameters
A New Private Sector
An Industry Transformed
Regulating Opencast	p. 36
The Commission on Energy and the Environment
An Attempt at Compromise
A Market-Led Approach
The Interim Guidance
The Revision of MPG3
Opencast Mining: The Challenge	p. 64
The Opencast Environmentalists
A Question of Reserves and Environment
The Economics of Opencast
The Question of Quality
Checking 'Handleability'
Opencast Employment
Living with Opencast	p. 90
The Perceived Threat
The Impact on the Community and Daily Life
The Cumulative Effect of Opencast Working
The Effect upon Health
Restoration of Sites
Breaches of Planning Conditions
Planning Gain
The State, the Public and the Inquiry	p. 119
The Inspector and the Inspectorate
Forms of Appeal
The Public Inquiry
Public Inquiries in Action
Public Participation in Opencast Inquiries
Democracy! What Democracy?	p. 145
Regional Regeneration
The Offer
The Opposition
The Plan in Operation
Changing Patterns of Protest	p. 167
Under the Hegemony of Coal
Dissent
Organised Opposition and Conflict
New Patterns of Protest
Direct Action
New Government - New Policies?	p. 207
The Trouble with Coal
Crisis in the Deep Mines
New Policies for Opencast?
More Openness - More Democracy?
Conclusions	p. 241
The Decline of Coal Mining
The State as Planner
Patterns of Protest and Opposition
A New Politics of the Environment?
A Note on Sources	p. 259
MPG3 (Revised) Opencast Coal Appeals Monitor	p. 262
Useful Addresses	p. 272
Notes	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 292
Index	p. 297
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