The minerals industry is having a consultation of its own, on Proposed UK Minerals Strategy - Supplying Demand for the Next Generation.
The industry believes that there is an urgent need for a UK Minerals Strategy to ensure medium and long-term demand is supplied to support economic growth and delivery of the Government’s emerging UK Industrial Strategy and the National Infrastructure Delivery Plan.
The industry cannot ensure that objectives are achieved without engagement and understanding from others such as Government, planning authorities and regulatory agencies, environmental NGOs and the wider public to maintain a resilient supply chain for these vital materials.
An action plan has been produced. There's a range of things that industry undertakes to do. Here's one:
Perhaps someone should have told Aggregate Industries that industry undertakes to reduce the need for long distance mineral transport, not plan multi-million mile haulage schemes across Devon.
