Landscape of New Lanark - World Heritage Site home of Robert Owen's attempt to eradicate child labour - threatened by quarry

New Lanark is just one of four National Heritage Sites in the entirety of Scotland. But now, its locals are fending off destruction by a multi-national quarrying company.

Save New Lanark from Quarrying!

In a nation rich with history, Scotland's New Lanark stands out. It was at New Lanark that the country's first steps toward eradicating child labour, establishing an employee sickness fund and providing education for all workers were taken. Some historians believe that these ideas quite literally changed the world for labour rights.

Because of that, New Lanark is one of only four World Heritage Sites in all of Scotland -- but a multinational minerals firm's proposed quarry extension could destroy it.

New Lanark hasn't changed much since its heyday in the early 1800s. Most of the former industrial buildings are still standing, and the woods surrounding them remains pristine. However, the quarry extension proposed by Cemex, a multinational minerals firm, would require 3.6 million tonnes of sand and gravel to be gutted from the landscape in the next six years.

English poet William Wordsworth once called the waterfall at Lanark "the river Clyde's most majestic daughter." We mustn't let heavy industry mar that gorgeous environment or the important history that it shelters.

If you agree, please sign the petition to save New Lanark from the proposed quarry extension.