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Post by merlin on Nov 28, 2011 7:39:09 GMT
They are now owned by Imerys. WBB was the other large, english company to mine clay, they are now also owned by the french, this time a company called Sibelco. WBB used to own the mineral rights under our house. I may own my home but the french own the ground beneath it. And probably the water too. The world is getting complicateder and complicateder. |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Nov 28, 2011 8:13:20 GMT
Does it bother you?....it would me!!  The mineral rights below everyones house will be owned by someone, it is clay underneath mine so I'm not bothered, if it was an area where Fracking was happening I would worry. Grindle, they are very good a screening the mines from the road. 20 years ago there were three times that number of mines, the clay has almost run out now. |
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Post by grindle on Nov 28, 2011 8:18:45 GMT
they certainly are aren't they. There's a lot of disused mines round here too but they don't show up on satellite pictures, they are the old arsenic and copper mines, not all of them are filled or fenced in either  |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 28, 2011 9:22:08 GMT
I would have thought Scotland would have some dark places too.Those satellite photos Louise posted do show the extent of the light pollution, it is quite amazing when you see it from space. Once you get above Glasgow and in a bit from the East the whole centre of Scotland is dark, your into the Cairngorms and not many people live around there. |
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Post by hywel on Nov 28, 2011 10:06:16 GMT
Have any of you looked at the dark places in the UK? There really aren't many - Exmoor is one of them. I find that scary! What are 'dark places' ? |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Nov 28, 2011 11:24:52 GMT
It is somewhere where there is very little light pollution so you can see the stars.
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Post by Rosie on Nov 28, 2011 13:17:55 GMT
It is somewhere where there is very little light pollution so you can see the stars. There are no lights around here and on a clear night the sky is just amazing, you can see all sorts, the Milky Way, Orion etc etc ;D Mmm milky ways..... ;D  ;D |
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 28, 2011 16:05:35 GMT
I believe the darkest sky in England is at the Kielder Forest near the border with Scotland.
The darkest sky I have seen in the UK since being interested in astronomy was at St. Austell in Cornwall and also at Severnside near Avonmouth but that was many years ago and no doubt light pollution has changed that.
Here in Pembrokeshire we do get some lovely dark skies but there is still a fair bit of localised light pollution.
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Post by grindle on Nov 28, 2011 17:15:31 GMT
since they've been turning all our street lights off at midnight until early morning, it's been lovely seeing all the stars so clearly, they should do it in more parts of the country I think  |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 28, 2011 21:48:10 GMT
since they've been turning all our street lights off at midnight until early morning, it's been lovely seeing all the stars so clearly, they should do it in more parts of the country I think I like that idea Grindle, luckily we don't have street lights around us, it's pitch black at night ;D One night early in the year we looked up and saw a really fast moving object in the sky, turned out to be the international space station ;D you can track it here... www.n2yo.com/ |
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Post by merlin on Nov 29, 2011 6:05:46 GMT
since they've been turning all our street lights off at midnight until early morning, it's been lovely seeing all the stars so clearly, they should do it in more parts of the country I think I like that idea Grindle, luckily we don't have street lights around us, it's pitch black at night ;D One night early in the year we looked up and saw a really fast moving object in the sky, turned out to be the international space station ;D you can track it here... www.n2yo.com/I can just picture you both in jour jammies looking up saying....is it a plane, is it a bird  |
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