Hope Quarry Flashcards
What are the economic advantages of Hope Quarry?
Provides 220 jobs to local people.
£44-45 million input into the local economy each year.
250 engineers are employed which travel to the local area twice a year to repair the kilns.
1 million tonnes of sediment a year went out on rail and half a million by truck.
What are the economic disadvantages of Hope Quarry?
The large chimney decreases the attractiveness of the area which may decrease tourism.
Silica rich limestone is not able to be used as the site is only licensed to produce one product – national park rules- which is cement, and therefore it is just reburied when the quarry sites get filled in. The silica rich limestone however could be sold as many other products such as (drainage & pitching, landscaping, pipe bedding, road construction and roof chippings).
What are the environmental advantages of Hope Quarry?
Dumper trucks used 80 litres of diesel 10 years ago.
It has one of the first regeneration plans, where the old quarry is regenerated, where material is put back and it is turned into shallow banks for sheep and scree slopes.
4 tonnes of car tyres are used every hour and burned at such a high temperature (1600 degrees) that there are no particulates.
The rock shelves provide habitat for nestling peregrines, kestrels, Ravens, Rooks and crows.
The scree slopes attract rabbits and the water puddles attracts frogs.
What are the enviromental disadvantages of Hope Quarry?
£2,000,000 energy bill per month.
Dumper trucks use 50 litres an hour.
The quarry is large 175m deep and a mile long.
They want to build an extension as there are only 20 years of rock left, and the extension will produce 180million tonnes of rock.
6 and a 1/2 tonnes of explosive is used for each explosion.
The kiln is heated to 1600 degrees.
What are the social advantages of Hope Quarry?
Has employed people for 87 years, and at its peak employed 840 people.
Workers work well together, the plant was built in the 1970’s and had its best output in 2015.
There are 20 years of rock left, without an extension.
