Super Quarry Sabotaged

Super Quar­ry Sab­o­taged

Towards the end of last year the super quar­ry at Bar­don Hill in Leicter­shire was sab­o­taged. This is the flag­ship quar­ry of Bar­don Aggri­gates, sub­sid­uary of Aggri­gate Indus­tries, the com­pa­ny remov­ing moun­tain tops for road­stone in Glen­san­da Scot­land. Bar­don Hill Quar­ry is a mile across and over quar­ter of a mile deep, and is remov­ing a hill­side that is des­ig­nat­ed as a SSSI. They are plan­ning to extend this quar­ry to new areas using over three miles of con­vey­ers to trans­port the stone. Dur­ing the week bore holes were dug for the new expan­sion vis­i­tors climbed down into the quar­ry over night destroy­ing engines and hydrulics, glu­ing locks, and drilling tires. You could stand in the buck­ets of the exca­va­tors and the wheels of the trucks were over eight feet tall. 3 excav­tors, 1 bull­doz­er, and 4 dumper trucks were sab­o­taged.