# The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Paragraph 2: Extractive industry


(a) Extracting peat;
(b) deep drilling, including—
(i) geothermal drilling;
(ii) drilling for the storage of nuclear waste material; and
(iii) drilling for water supplies;
but excluding drilling to investigate the stability of the soil;
(c) extracting minerals (other than metalliferous and energy-producing minerals), such as marble, sand, gravel, shale, salt, phosphates and potash;
(d) extracting coal or lignite by underground or open-cast mining;
(e) extracting petroleum;
(f) extracting natural gas;
(g) extracting ores;
(h) extracting bituminous shale;
(i) extracting minerals (other than metalliferous and energy-producing minerals) by open-cast mining;
(j) a surface industrial installation for the extraction of coal, petroleum, natural gas or ores, or bituminous shale;
(k) a coke oven (dry coal distillation); and
(l) an installation for the manufacture of cement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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