Quarries

LAING have a £51m contract to build a nine hundred metre tunnel through PEN-Y-C mountain and where do TARMAC and LAING get all the stone etc. for aggregate from?...yep - the quarries (there are at least four along the A55 alone), many owned by ARC and McALPINE.

ARC own Lonatley quarry, a small townsized hole in Somerset. This is the source of the aggregate used at Twyford. ARC are using outdated 1948 planning permission to increase the size of their quarries at Whatley, Penmaenmaur and Carmel woods (a SSSI full of rare species and the resting place of thirteen giant skeletons!). Oh, and guess what... TARMAC and ARC have the same directors! McALPINE own a huge quarry in Bethesda. FoE's proposed alternative was turned down because it would have gone through the slag heaps of the quarry, obviously a more important site! Is it just another coincidence that the bypass means easier access for the quarry?

TARMAC ARC and LAING are turning mountains, meadows and trees into roads and concrete.

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