Twenty-five years have passed since the former mining community of Killamarsh set up its anti-pollution campaign against a multinational company
It was announced in November 1999 that the hazardous waste incinerator would be shut down and in December that year Sarp was fined £120,000 and ordered to pay £150,000 costs by a judge at Derby Crown Court after the company admitted liability for the leaks at Killamarsh on May 14 and May 30 in 1998. The incinerator was pulled down March 21, 2002.
Pictured at the Environmental Agency HQ, Rotherham, where a petition with 5,000 signatures was handed in to John Housham, agency manager, by John Moran and protesters from Killamarsh in the late 90s.“At the end, we’d probably got 50 to 100 dedicated campaigners to chase this company all over Europe.
"This group had no fear, but it never caused any damage like a lot of protest groups. We protested with civil disobedience and we did not damage anybody, we didn’t involve any other people, it was a direct battle between us and this company and that’s how we made it.”
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