VoteClimate: Former Metal Mines - 9th February 2011

Former Metal Mines - 9th February 2011

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Former Metal Mines.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-02-09/debates/11020962000001/FormerMetalMines

14:39 Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) (Lab)

Of course, the impact of climate change could make the problem of abandoned mine pollution worse. Increased and heavier rainfall intensity will increase the erosion of contaminated spoil heap material, and sediments and deposition on agricultural land in downstream floodplains.

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