
Tipping Point Event
Tue 02 May
|The Good Heart
Stopping an Ecological Disaster over a cuppa: how to lobby a councilor about a mega-quarry


Time & Location
02 May 2023, 19:30 – 20:30
The Good Heart, 7 Palmer St, Frome BA11 1DS, UK
About The Event
Tipping Point are running this free event, they say:
"Councillors are weeks away from a decision about the new megaquarry at Westdown outside Frome. If they vote to approve, an estimated 160 million tonnes of unneeded carbon-rich rock would be extracted over the coming decades and the stability of our already drought stretched water tables would be threatened.
All this in a location that seems designed to destroy as many protected species habitat as possible, alongside 100 acres of farmland and a huge area of regenerating forest.
The process for how this decision will be made has recently changed, along with the shift to a Unitary Authority. A whole new set of local representatives are now involved. While over 500 letters of objection have already been written to the Planning Inspector, the committee members are sadly under no obligation to read them. So meeting Councillors, building a bit of a…