Sentence examples for colliery waste from inspiring English sources

With the closure of the local pits – including the largest coal mine in Europe – the abuse of the coast through the dumping of colliery waste stopped.

We slid past greater butterfly orchids – thriving over long-buried colliery waste – and grazing cows and sheep – unmoved by the steady stream of hikers and horse-riders, even a skateboarder – until our creaky city legs would bear no more.

When the Aberfan disaster came on October 21, 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults after colliery waste slid down a mountain to engulf Pantglas school, the knives were out for Robens's scalp.

There were also plans to use it as a dump for colliery waste in 1978, when Thorne Colliery was upgraded and reopened.

Tipped waste from the colliery had been used as a coastal defence measure, but as the colliery had closed, waste was no longer being tipped.

When Gary Doonin, director of Doonin Plant Ltd, was branded Scotland's worst polluter and fined £200,000 for dumping hundreds of tonnes of waste, including car tyres, food packaging and clothing at a disused colliery, some may have had a sense of déjà vu.

The colliery closed in 1996.

On the beach, where coal mining waste once created a sterile, nightmarish alien landscape, the transformation is even more heartening for those who remember the condition of the area when Dawdon colliery closed in 1991.

Cynics noted that it was a couple of months before a general election and that Ellington Colliery in Northumberland, one of the two pits saved from closure by the aid, was a few miles from Mr Byers's North Tyneside constituency.Most of the money seems to have been wasted.

Orgreave Colliery, Longbridge car plant, Llanwern steelworks, Liverpool docks.

In 1980, she married Stuart, a miner at Blaenant colliery.