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Lignite mine.
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Editor Northern Ireland on Tuesday, 3rd June 2003
We received the following e-mail from John Stewart in London.
The plan to build an open cast mine in this area of Northern Ireland is
shocking and puzzling. I grew up just outside the town of Ballymoney,
close to where the proposed mine is to be built. The area is noted for its
rural landscape and unspoiled environment. To build an open cast mine here
would bring widespread pollution and environmental devastation on much too
great a scale for the plan to be justified.
With all the obvious opportunity for renewal energy in Nortern Ireland,
(wind and sea), not only is the choice of lignite mining environmentally
disastrous, it is wholly unecessary.
John Stewart BSc
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