Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Below is a plea from an ex-Welsh Miner called Steve Bellis.
255 Miners graves are about to be desecrated in North Wales - this is disgusting and needs stopping now. Wrexham Council planning refused permission to drill a test hole but the Welsh Government inspector, Clive Nield & Chief Planner/Deputy Director Rosemary Thomas overturned the decision.
The proposed Fracking site is in the same vicinity where 266 Coal Miners lost their lives in the Gresford Colliery disaster on 22nd September 1934. The remains of 255 miners still remain in the ground. The fracking operation will inject a toxic cocktail of chemicals into the ground in order to extract the very gas that killed the miners. The gas will be extracted from the lungs of dead miners for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.
The Welsh government have overturned the wishes of the local people and have shown no regard for the memory of the miners. There is currently a peaceful protest against Fracking and they have recently been served with an eviction notice. It looks like even the North Wales Police will be complicit in the desecration. What has the world come to when respect and dignity cannot be afforded to the miners and families of the miners who lost their lives?
The Welsh Government, bailiffs, Clive Nield, Rosemary Thomas, owner of Common wood Farm are all complicit in planning to desecrate the miners graves. We cannot allow this to happen. For common decency we need to act now to stop this. My God what message does this send out to our children and the rest of the world? I do not see much in the media about this, so if you are a reporter, get reporting the real issues.
S W Bellis.
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Jan Higgins
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That is quite simply just plain disrespectful and and must be awful for the families involved, siblings and other close relatives could still be alive.
Shame on the Welsh Government and any others involved.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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These poor miners were buried in the mine and their bodies were never recovered.
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Howard.
It is one mass grave, with the remains of 255 miners still laying at rest underground.
They should not even be thinking of disturbing this Mining Memorial Site.
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