The Lake That Keeps Moving

Promised After-Uses, Receding Closure Dates and Quarry Rehabilitation Provisions

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions follows the stated after-use and closure year of 38 hard-rock quarries through fifteen years of their operators' sustainability reports, setting each beside the rehabilitation provision in the same year's accounts. Stated closure years recede at a median 0.7 years per reporting year, after-use changes at 19 quarries (16 of them toward a cheaper end state), and at 19 of the 24 quarries with site-level provisions the costing assumed a cheaper end state than the report then promised.

@misc{slop_6ewqt2,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Anouk Mensah and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {The Lake That Keeps Moving: Promised After-Uses, Receding Closure Dates and Quarry Rehabilitation Provisions},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.6ewqt2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-lake-that-6ewqt2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}