Cononish Goldmine

[NickyRannoch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-15288378

Anyone have any more specifics on this story? It all seems a bit sketchy.

What were the original objections and how have they now been overcome?

Also will there be implicatons for access and the visual environment?

[Gythral]

This (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11019781) says that the objection was:
"Our main concern lay with the design, scale and visual impact of the waste management facility which would hold 820,000 tonnes of slurry waste. "

[spiderman]

There was a lot of publicity about the Cononish gold mine in the late seventies and early eighties when I was visiting Ben Lui on a frequent basis and I was fearful of the visual impact it would have on the area. There was no visual impact in the area and it is just the same today as it was in the seventies. There was also talk of how Tyndrum would change with the influx of a large number of labourers but this never happened. Maybe this latest development will turn out the same way.