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00:00One of my main reasons I'm worried is because I get this school bus every day
00:04and a lot of the time the wind's blowing towards us when we're walking so if the
00:09quarry's at the end of the road that could end up blowing like the sand and
00:13dust and dad has a partially collapsed lung so that could also affect him.
00:19What Leiths have just submitted a planning application for is a really large quarry here
00:34that's going to extract 850,000 tonnes of sand and gravel over a 17-year period with a concrete
00:42batching plant here and sand and gravel washing and as you can see it's about 60 metres from
00:47people's houses.
00:49The major concerns we're going to have personally are the noise and the dust.
00:56As you can see the site itself is just incredibly flat, exposed, it's a mildly windy day today.
01:03When the winds get up here it is really windy purely because of the exposure and there's
01:09no way they can mitigate the amount of dust that's going to come off there regardless
01:12which way the wind's blowing.
01:13My dad he's 84 and he suffers from COPD anyway so that's going to affect him and he just stays
01:21in the house next to us here so he's going to be affected a lot.
01:26There's a lot of fear and worry because there's real health implications with constant noise.
01:30This thing is going to be working six days a week, long hours, early mornings and it's
01:35going to be that constant sand, gravel, rumble and lots of noise.
01:39Then there's the worry about silica dust, that's really really bad for you, I mean if you're
01:44working near silica dust you have to wear protective equipment.
01:47You can feel the wind here it's blowing all the way towards Elgin and quite strongly so
01:52it's going to affect a huge area.
01:54We're not against quarrying per se but it's just that is not the right location.
01:58If you look around Murray to see all the other quarries, they're all hidden behind woods,
02:01you can't see them, you don't know they're there, you can't hear them, there's no evidence
02:05of them being there unless you're up in the air, whereas that one there it's just a massive
02:09open exposed site, it's just insane.
02:11We have archers you know that have various disabilities and they rely on coming here, it's a peaceful environment
02:20and so it's going to have quite a big effect on those people as well, they simply wouldn't
02:26be able to come because some of them have disabilities where they cannot tolerate noise.
02:33We moved here to be quiet in the countryside and this is just going to ruin it.
02:39This is a community that's already affected by two quarries, they can hear the quarries here,
02:44there's a big wood workshop over there for the glass green estate that's noisy, there's
02:49a distillery in town there that's just had a biomass boiler that's going to have noise
02:54and traffic implications and the community's been happy to work with all of them because
02:58we understand you can't live in isolation.
03:01But this is a whole new level and to anybody who does want to think it's going to bring
03:06huge economic benefit, it's going to create four jobs.
03:10You might well lose four jobs in farming here, you might well lose jobs in the archery range
03:15and in the businesses this is going to affect.
03:17The money that this is going to raise is going to lease, this is profit before people, that's
03:22simply what it is.