Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 59 - June 1999Back to list of articles in this issue

Opencast The Dome

MSG Associates is the well known opencast mining 'company' which opencasted Michael Heseltine's garden in 1997, have been conducting exploratory test bores at a new site under the Millennium Dome in Greenwich. The alliance of environmentalists and deep pit mining groups claim it is the only site genuinely suitable for opencast mining in Britain due to the large DUST COVER which has already been erected over the site.

After speakers from the NUM and local tenant's groups (cuts of £40 million are being made by the local borough council despite the £750 million dome) engineers commenced digging for coal. A rich seam was located and several bags of the black gold were brought to the surface within a matter of minutes.

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