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Thursday 24 May 2012

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Permission granted for opencast coal mine near Hawksland

Protest at Scottish Coal's Ravenstruther Railhead near Lanark 10/11/10 Picture by Lindsay Addison

Published on Sunday 29 January 2012 08:00

RESIDENTS of the Douglas Valley will have another opencast coal mine on their doorstep following the decision by South Lanarkshire Council to grant planning permission at a site near Hawksland.

The north extension to the Broken Cross site was approved by the council’s planning committee at a meeting on Tuesday.

Scottish Coal was granted permission to extract one million tonnes of coal from the site.

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