Scottish locale example no. 1: Levenhall Links, East Lothian

Levenhall Links, an artificial coastal site in eastern Scotland, is examined in relation to the long history of coal extraction and power generation in Scotland; to the aerial geography of mine workings and underground geography of pits and tunnels; and to the railways, sentiments and politics that connected them. The origins of the site as a discard pile are traced, following the construction and operation of networked infrastructures that included the modernist industrial plants, Cockenzie Power Station and Monktonhall Colliery. Levenhall Links appears as the waste-filled culmination of the Anthropocene, and a window into its uncertain aftermath with new, often fractious, accommodations between humans, water, birds and sediments.