Mining
Sir,—The Government proposes that landowners’ consent be obtained before mining operations begin, but that miners can appeal to the Planning Tribunal if that consent is “unreasonably withheld.” Fighting such an appeal by a rich influential mining company may well, of course, cost a small fortune. I can iimagine no circumstances where a landowner is unreasonable in refusing to allow a stranger to dig up his property, even with compensation. The power to overrule a landowner is, to put it plainly, a power to confiscate private property. Here is a strange impotence of our supposedly all-powerful market forces. Some people, it seems, are just immune to them. So mining companies favour the forcible violation of their property. Perhaps our vigilant anti-communist campaigners will help oppose this intrusion on our liberties. Since sauce is for goose and gander alike, how can mining companies object to taxation and other minor regulation of their property for the common good? — Yours, etc., D. J. ROUND. June 17, 1989.
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