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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:05:33 GMT
From: "SchNEWS" (schnews@gn.apc.org)
Subject: SchNEWS 241, Friday 17th December 1999
Teigngrace Victory
The Teigngrace campaign has had its second and final victory this week. In brief, the open cast mine company, Watts, Blake and Bearne (WBB) dig up beautiful stretches of land to mine for white china clay which is then exported to Germany to make toilets. The Germans were shitting faster than the company could find clay, so they decided to extend their quarry, which meant redirecting two rivers, trashing old orchards and digging up badger sets. A camp was set up in the summer of 1997 to call for a public enquiry, which they got. Two years later the villagers of Teigngrace have just won the public enquiry! WBB are to pay £100,000 in costs to both the Teigngrace Parish Council and the Devon Wildlife Trust. The land is now in the pipeline to become a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). Nice One!
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