Whatley Quarry

No work has yet started in the Mendip Hills, on the expansion of Whatley Quarry by quarrying company ARC. On 25th of September, Hanson’s, the owners of ARC, had their EGM interrupted by protestors both questioning inside and a small, but very noisy crowd outside. At least two shareholders decided to sell their shares after talking to people outside about future plans for Whatley Quarry. Who knows how many more would sell if Lord Hanson had not brushed environmental questions aside during the meeting.

Meanwhile a Whatley local is in the process of taking an appeal against the Quarry’s expansion to the high court.

Other locals took matters into their own hands, just before the Extraordinary General Meeting, by cutting the Quarry’s private railway line which disrupted work for a day. They ensured that there would be no danger to human life by placing red stop lights miles up the track and informing the local radio station, as well as giving an interview as to why action was taken.

The Mendip Hills Not Holes telephone number is no longer valid, though they can still be contacted at the same address.