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VALUING THE ENVIRONMENTALIMPACTS OFOPENCAST COAL MINING:THE CASE OF THE TRENT VALLEYIN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE
 
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Andrew B. TriggandW. Richard DubourgCSERGE Working Paper GEC 93-19
 
 
 
VALUING THE ENVIRONMENTALIMPACTS OFOPENCAST COAL MINING:THE CASE OF THE TRENT VALLEYIN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE
 
ByAndrew B. Trigg
1
and W. Richard Dubourg
2
 
1
Faculty of Social Sciences,The Open University,Walton Hall,Milton Keynes MK7 6AA.
2
CSERGE,University College Londonand University of East Anglia
Acknowledgements
The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) is adesignated research centre of the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)The Authors are grateful to John Rees and Eric Wade for geological advice, and for helpfulcomments from Marian Gough, Ray Lee, Sheila Watson, David Pearce, Alan Gillie andMaureen Mackintosh. David Willis provided the illustrations.
ISSN 0967-8875
 
Abstract
 The environmental costs which often accompany opencast coal-mining are generally excludedfrom financial appraisals of opencast projects. We examine an opencast proposal for the NorthStaffordshire coalfield of the United Kingdom. A survey of local estate agents suggests that, asmeasured by the impact upon local house prices, the monetary environmental costs of theproject could be sufficient to reduce substantially its economic viability. Moreover, opencast coalin North Staffordshire is almost certainly more costly to produce than equivalent deep-minedcoal. If the United Kingdom government wishes to support the market for domestic deep-minedcoal, it could do so at zero effective cost simply by restricting opencast production.
Keywords 
: opencast coal-mining; environmental costs; UK energy policy.
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