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Tables of Contents for Digging Up Trouble
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
viii
List of illustrations
x
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
8
Two Industries in One: Opencast and Deep Mining
9
27
Historical Origins
The Plan for Coal
The Expansion of Opencast Production
Changing Parameters
A New Private Sector
An Industry Transformed
Regulating Opencast
36
28
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
64
26
The Opencast Environmentalists
A Question of Reserves and Environment
The Economics of Opencast
The Question of Quality
Checking `Handleability'
Opencast Employment
Living with Opencast
90
29
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
119
26
The Inspector and the Inspectorate
Forms of Appeal
The Public Inquiry
Public Inquiries in Action
Public Participation in Opencast Inquiries
Democracy! What Democracy?
145
22
Regional Regeneration
The Offer
The Opposition
The Plan in Operation
Changing Patterns of Protest
167
40
Under the Hegemony of Coal
Dissent
Organised Opposition and Conflict
New Patterns of Protest
Direct Action
New Government--New Policies?
207
34
The Trouble with Coal
Crisis in the Deep Mines
New Policies for Opencast?
More Openness--More Democracy?
Conclusions
241
18
The Decline of Coal Mining
The State as Planner
Patterns of Protest and Opposition
A New Politics of the Environment?
A Note on Sources
259
3
MPG3 (Revised) Opencast Coal Appeals Monitor
262
10
Useful Addresses
272
1
Notes
273
19
Bibliography
292
5
Index
297