Mr Gordon Best This is Me

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1. 1. Quarry Products Association - Contact

   www.qpa.org/cont_qpa02.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/11/2008   Last Visited: 3/11/2008

   Gordon Best Regional Director QPA Northern Ireland gbest@qpani.org

2. 2. NILGA

   www.nilga.org/news_detail.asp? - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/16/2006   Last Visited: 2/4/2008

   According to Gordon Best, Regional Director of QPANI

3. 3. Quarry owners take fight to Treasury

   www.impartialreporter.com/arch - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/26/2001   Last Visited: 7/31/2001

   Mr. Gordon Best , regional development manager with the QPA , who was in Fermanagh on Monday meeting with local representatives , said that plants producing ready mixed concrete , already operated on a slim profit margin and the proposed tax would wipe out any margin altogether.
   
   He and his colleagues say the most ridiculous part of the proposed tax regime was that it would discourage quarrying. Instead , it would drive local business to transfer their operations across the border to the Republic. He says in parts of Great Britain , quarry firms have much further to travel with their raw materials and as a result are much more expensive.
   
   In a recent document produced by the QPA , the price of raw materials are much different between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain. In Northern Ireland , ex works price is quoted at an average of £2.60 per tonne but would have to be increased by 60 per cent to cover the proposed taxation of £1.60 per tonne. In mainland Britain , the increase would be just 25 per cent , as the average selling price was around £6.50 per tonne.
   
   The local quarry owners say there has not been a problem with regards to environmental impact of quarrying locally and that recycling is not applicable here. Quarrying and tourism have always co-existed in Fermanagh , they say.
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   If this tax comes in it will force people to cut costs , said Mr. Best.