Outlaw Opencast coal mining in the UK due to extreme environmental impacts.

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Outlaw Opencast coal mining in the UK due to extreme environmental impacts.

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Opencast coal mining in the UK is becoming even more popular. This way of mining has a detrimental impact on the environment and people. Opencast coal mining involves the extraction of coal via surface mining. Ecology of the area become effected, villages become effected by dust and noise.

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https://www.foe.co.uk/green-blog/can-you-imagine-what-its-like-live-next-opencast-coal-mine.
Opencast coal mining involves the extraction of earth and rocks from the surface of a mining area where the earth will be blasted apart to get to thin coal seems within. This effects landscape, people, wildlife, agricultural land, etc. Then, after the coal extraction there is a large risk that the mining area could be abandoned and not regenerated as companies promised before they begun extraction.

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