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Elizabeth Truss speech – Putting a friendlier, greener face on the Government’s Performance – Pity about the Environmental Audit Committee Report!

Owen Paterson’s views were doing no favors to the Government’s claim to be, ‘the Greenest Government ever’ and his outpourings since have only highlighted the Government’s view on many environmental issues (see Environmental Audit Report below). His replacement, Liz Truss, whilst still firmly in the promoting farming and fishing business camp, is presenting a more […]

National Audit Office Report on Strategic flood risk management Provokes Comment

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This NAO report looks like provoking a wide range of comment – two responses in addition to the report link below. NAO “Against a background of tight resources, the Agency has improved how it prioritizes its spending, including on the maintenance of flood defences. On this measure the Agency is achieving value for money. However, […]

Fishing down the food chain – New paper highlights the continuing world trend

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In a recent paper by Villy Christensen and colleagues the work confirming the decline in larger species of fish around the world is confirmed. Once believed immutable due to their massive size and volume, today’s oceans are no longer the same oceans of our grandparents. In just a few generations, human activity has radically transformed […]

Bathing Waters monitoring and transition data

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Environment Agency: ‘Bathing water in the UK is protected by EU Directive 76/160/EEC, which will be replaced by Directive 2006/7/EC in 2015. We are currently in a transitional stage between the two Directives. The new Directive sets tighter standards for bathing water quality. Each year the Environment Agency assesses what the classifications would have been, […]

16th Annual ‘Area Involved’ Marine Aggregates Report Published – new report available from BMAPA and The Crown Estate

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16th Annual ‘Area Involved’ Marine Aggregates Report Published – new report available from BMAPA and The Crown Estate This report may be downloaded from The Crown Estate website at: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/news-and-media/news/2014/16th-annual-area-involved-report-for-marine-aggregates-published/ Summary The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate have published their 16th annual ‘Area Involved’ report, which details changes in […]

Dredging up Trouble: Government urged to resist playing politics over winter flood measures

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Blueprint for Water: ‘Potentially environmentally-damaging dredging must not be prioritized over other proven flood-prevention measures in this year’s Autumn Statement on 3 December 2014 is the warning to Government by Blueprint for Water. In a new report Dredging up Trouble, 10 of the Blueprint for Water partners– a coalition of organisations, representing over two million […]

IPCC releases Climate Change synthesis report

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AAS ‘Climate change is taking hold and will bring worrying impacts—but there is still time to limit the damage. That, in a nutshell, is the message delivered by a new report that synthesizes the findings of three massive studies issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past year. The Synthesis Report, […]

Home Owners Guide to Flooding – A Really useful reference

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This guide which is written especially with the home owner in mind hopes to reduce the worry about what flood protection products to use, and illustrates the variety of ways a home can be protected, how difficult the products are to fit and when it is appropriate to use them, The guide has been written […]