Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005

Extractive industry

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24(1)Quarries, open-cast mining and peat extraction.

(2)Underground mining.

(3)Extraction of minerals by marine or fluvial dredging.

(4)Deep drillings, in particular—

(a)geothermal drilling;

(b)drilling for the storage of nuclear waste material;

(c)drilling for water supplies,

except drillings for investigating the stability of the soil.

(5)Surface industrial installations for the extraction of coal, petroleum, natural gas and ores (including bituminous shale).