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Forget Lydd Airport & Dungeness C: Romney Marsh must go 'green'
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Posted on 03/03/2010 at 14:18 by Ray Duff
The recent re-iteration of Shepway Council's planning officers to reject Lydd Airport's expansion plans, must now be the final nail in the coffin of their unwanted plans.  The environmental considerations at LAA, the officers say, have not been met.

Anyway the wider need to act now to curb climate change, including from aircraft emissions, must take precendence.  Further, the Intl Aviation group IATA pointed out recently that the numbers of bookings for flights were down 15 per cent last year due to the recession and people holiday in the UK instead. This will likely continue for some years yet given the difficult economic situation we face.

So it just remains for the full council to administer the coup-de-gras at the meeting this evening (March 3).  I hope they will recommend that such plans be buried permanantly as most people on the Marsh and elsewhere may agree.

Meanwhile, up the road at Dungeness, all the hot-air, complaining and reports etc over the Governments rejection of the site as suitable for a third station are also very likely in vain.   The latest info clearly shows that both designs for new stations could be risky anyway. The US Westinghouse AP1000 has design faults that could be dangerous in an aircraft collision for instance, and the French Areva and Finnish designed PWR's appear to produce a lot more radioactive waste than previously thought. Despite the usual company denials, no new station can be fool-proof as independent expert John Large has pointed out.

Thus the time has surely come for this area to adopt the green tech and lifestyle options that are springing up in towns and cities etc across the UK as the way forward. The CBI recently pointed out that the low-carbon sector is already worth £100 billion to the UK economy.

So green-tech businesses on the Marsh to help supply local, and wider, need must be the way forward alongside the increased tourism ideas that are gaining acceptance in the area. It is these that can help provide the jobs and services required locally.
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Posted on 05/03/2010 at 16:02 by Alison R Noyes

Lydd Airport Expansion, Kent

 

Council Decision on 4th March 2010

 

Conjuring Trick

 

 

The application was passed on a false premise. 

 

 

The Council was only entitled to accept the application if they were satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the proposed expansion would not damage the environment.  That is the law.

 

 

I have yet to grasp the legal basis that entitled Councillor Dearden to cut and paste two reports to make a new report and at the last minute introduce that new report as the report by which the Council was to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt.  Perhaps the Council would be good enough to provide me with the legal - and also moral - chapter and verse for this unusual amalgamation.

 

 

What I witnessed via live webcam has convinced me beyond reasonable doubt that the majority of the Council was, shamefully, happy to operate a political conjuring trick.  In spite of due legal process, the debate was adroitly passed off as a debate between jobs and nature, which it never truly was.

 

 

Thus the people of Shepway (and elsewhere), unaware of the night’s proceedings, woke this morning invited to believe that the “heroic Council – facing down the cranks - has saved and created jobs for our young people”. 

 

 

However, the people are not that daft.  Nor are the Council's very own officers, or environmental experts!

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