Scottish Coal Company - Revision history

Miriam Rose at 11:37, 7 July 2010

2010-07-07T11:37:46Z

Steven Harkins: /* Opencast coal mining */

2009-10-20T13:15:14Z

Opencast coal mining

Claire Robinson at 12:25, 20 October 2009

2009-10-20T12:25:09Z

Claire Robinson: /* Opencast Coal Mining */

2009-10-20T12:24:05Z

Opencast Coal Mining

Claire Robinson at 12:23, 20 October 2009

2009-10-20T12:23:13Z

Steven Harkins: /* Political Contributions */

2009-10-19T17:47:38Z

Political Contributions

Steven Harkins: /* Opencast Coal Mining */

2009-10-19T17:23:00Z

Opencast Coal Mining

Steven Harkins: /* Opencast Coal Mining */

2009-10-19T17:14:09Z

Opencast Coal Mining

Steven Harkins at 16:40, 19 October 2009

2009-10-19T16:40:58Z

Steven Harkins: /* Opencast Coal Mining */

2009-10-19T16:39:22Z

Opencast Coal Mining

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 {{template:Scotland badge}}[[Scottish Coal Company]] Ltd is "the largest coal producer in Scotland and the largest opencast coal mining company in the UK"<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>. The company comes under the umbrella of the [[Scottish Resources Group]]<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>.
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 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]][[Category:Energy]][[Category:Mining Industry]]
+[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]][[Category:Energy]][[Category:Mining Industry]] [[Category:Climate Change]] [[Category:Climate: Energy]] [[Category:Climate]]

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 :The statistics are clear – Douglas residents are dying substantially more from certain illnesses than people in non-opencast areas. You can see the dust coming off these mines, off the coal lorries and settling on the windows of our local hospital.
-Scottish Coal deny the allegations made by Steenis kick-started a successful legal action in Corby, where a decommissioned steel works was blamed for local birth defects<ref>Chris Watt, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/opencast-mines-will-lead-to-public-health-disaster-warns-poison-expert-1.922198 Opencast mines will lead to public health disaster, warns poison expert], ''The Herald'', 26-September-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>. The land that the Mainshill site is planned for is owned by Lord [[David Douglas-Home]]<ref>Edd McCracken, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/a-climate-of-fear-1.826337 A climate of fear],'' The Herald'', 8-August-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.
+Scottish Coal deny the allegations made by Steenis, who kick-started a successful legal action in Corby. The legal action was over a decommissioned steel works which was blamed for local birth defects<ref>Chris Watt, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/opencast-mines-will-lead-to-public-health-disaster-warns-poison-expert-1.922198 Opencast mines will lead to public health disaster, warns poison expert], ''The Herald'', 26-September-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>. The land that the Mainshill site is planned for is owned by Lord [[David Douglas-Home]]<ref>Edd McCracken, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/a-climate-of-fear-1.826337 A climate of fear],'' The Herald'', 8-August-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.
 ==Affiliations==

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-{{template:Scotland badge}}[[Scottish Coal Company]] Ltd is "the largest coal producer in Scotland and the largest opencast coal mining company in the U. K."<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>. The company comes under the umbrella of the [[Scottish Resources Group]]<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>.
+{{template:Scotland badge}}[[Scottish Coal Company]] Ltd is "the largest coal producer in Scotland and the largest opencast coal mining company in the UK"<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>. The company comes under the umbrella of the [[Scottish Resources Group]]<ref>The Company, [http://www.scottishcoal.co.uk/SCCL/index.htm Scottish Coal], ''Scottish Resources Group'', Accessed 17-October-2009</ref>.
-==Political Contributions==
+==Political contributions==
 In 2002 current Labour leader in Scotland [[Iain Gray]] answered a question from the SNP's [[Bruce Crawford]] about [[Scottish Enterprise]] network funding for [[Scottish Coal Company]]. His answer was as follows:
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 :"In the three years to 31 March 2002, the Scottish Enterprise network contributed a total of £81,591 in direct support to Scottish Coal Company Ltd and its subsidiaries. These contributions went towards a number of projects including studies on opencast mine reinstatement and the Modern Apprenticeships Scheme at Longannet and were in addition to the bank guarantee of £4.514 million provided by Scottish Enterprise to Scottish Coal (Deep Mine) Ltd and paid to the Royal Bank of Scotland"<ref>Iain Gray, [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/spwrans/?id=2002-05-14.S1W-24925.h&s=%22scottish+coal+company%22#gS1W-24925.r0 Mining: ''Scottish Parliament Written answers''], ''They Work For You'', 14-May-2002, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.
-==Opencast Coal Mining==
+==Opencast coal mining==
 Scottish Coal Company is the UK's largest opencast coal mine operator. The company was given permission to extract 1.7m tonnes of coal at Mainshill in South Lanarkshire between 2009-2012. Around 700 residents of nearby Douglas and Glespin were against the proposed mine. Their protests were unsuccesful and planning permission was granted by [[South Lanarkshire Council]]<ref>Severin Carrell, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/03/climate-camp-scotland-coal Scottish climate activists to target coal industry], ''The Guardian'', 3-August-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>. According to the Guardian:
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 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]][[Category:Energy]]
+[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]][[Category:Energy]][[Category:Mining Industry]]

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 :At a site known as Poniel/Long Plantation, it can mine 570,000 tonnes, and 4m tonnes from Broken Cross open-cast mine, several miles to the north-east"<ref>Severin Carrell, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/03/climate-camp-scotland-coal Scottish climate activists to target coal industry], ''The Guardian'', 3-August-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.
-Public health expert Dr Dick van Steenis has warned that the planned Mainshill site, which will be the fourth opencast mine in the area will become a public health disaster. In a visit to douglas he said:
+Public health expert Dr Dick van Steenis has warned that the planned Mainshill site, which will be the fourth opencast mine in the area will become a public health disaster. In a visit to Douglas he said:
-:"I’m not anti-coal, but if it’s really in the national interest to mine for it there then they should bulldoze down Douglas and rebuild it in a safer place,"
+:I’m not anti-coal, but if it’s really in the national interest to mine for it there then they should bulldoze down Douglas and rebuild it in a safer place.
-:"It would actually make economic sense – they could then mine the coal under the town as well, build a power station and feed it back into the grid, or sell it. It would create jobs, cut the NHS bill and increase exports."
+:It would actually make economic sense – they could then mine the coal under the town as well, build a power station and feed it back into the grid, or sell it. It would create jobs, cut the NHS bill and increase exports.
-Going on to say that:
+He went on to say:
-:"The statistics are clear – Douglas residents are dying substantially more from certain illnesses than people in non-opencast areas. You can see the dust coming off these mines, off the coal lorries and settling on the windows of our local hospital."
+:The statistics are clear – Douglas residents are dying substantially more from certain illnesses than people in non-opencast areas. You can see the dust coming off these mines, off the coal lorries and settling on the windows of our local hospital.
 Scottish Coal deny the allegations made by Steenis kick-started a successful legal action in Corby, where a decommissioned steel works was blamed for local birth defects<ref>Chris Watt, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/opencast-mines-will-lead-to-public-health-disaster-warns-poison-expert-1.922198 Opencast mines will lead to public health disaster, warns poison expert], ''The Herald'', 26-September-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>. The land that the Mainshill site is planned for is owned by Lord [[David Douglas-Home]]<ref>Edd McCracken, [http://www.heraldscotland.com/a-climate-of-fear-1.826337 A climate of fear],'' The Herald'', 8-August-2009, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.

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 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]]
+[[Category:Scotland]][[Category:Scottish Corporations]][[Category:Energy]]

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 In 2002 current Labour leader in Scotland [[Iain Gray]] answered a question from the SNP's [[Bruce Crawford]] about [[Scottish Enterprise]] network funding for [[Scottish Coal]]. His answer was as follows:
-:"In the three years to 31 March 2002, the Scottish Enterprise network contributed a total of £81,591 in direct support to Scottish Coal Company Ltd and its subsidiaries. These contributions went towards a number of projects including studies on opencast mine reinstatement and the Modern Apprenticeships Scheme at Longannet and were in addition to the bank guarantee of £4.514 million provided by Scottish Enterprise to Scottish Coal (Deep Mine) Ltd and paid to the Royal Bank of Scotland"<ref>Iain Gray, [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/spwrans/?id=2002-05-14.S1W-24925.h&s=%22scottish+coal+company%22#gS1W-24925.r0 Mining], ''Scottish Parliament Written answers'', 14-May-2002, They Work For You</ref>.
+:"In the three years to 31 March 2002, the Scottish Enterprise network contributed a total of £81,591 in direct support to Scottish Coal Company Ltd and its subsidiaries. These contributions went towards a number of projects including studies on opencast mine reinstatement and the Modern Apprenticeships Scheme at Longannet and were in addition to the bank guarantee of £4.514 million provided by Scottish Enterprise to Scottish Coal (Deep Mine) Ltd and paid to the Royal Bank of Scotland"<ref>Iain Gray, [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/spwrans/?id=2002-05-14.S1W-24925.h&s=%22scottish+coal+company%22#gS1W-24925.r0 Mining: ''Scottish Parliament Written answers''], ''They Work For You'', 14-May-2002, Accessed 19-October-2009</ref>.
 ==Opencast Coal Mining==

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 :"Scottish Coal already operates three other mines in the immediate area, and has recently won permission to extend many of them.
-"At Glentaggart, the company is allowed to mine 200,000 tonnes a year: the site has one of the Europe's longest conveyor belts. At 6.5km long, Scottish Coal says it reduced lorry traffic by 30,000 journeys a year.
+:At Glentaggart, the company is allowed to mine 200,000 tonnes a year: the site has one of the Europe's longest conveyor belts. At 6.5km long, Scottish Coal says it reduced lorry traffic by 30,000 journeys a year.
 ==Affiliations==