Graham Marsden
Editor Emeritus
For info, link to petition sent to:
Derby Railway AS
Bay Malton AS
Ribchester AS
Burton Mutual AA
Wheelock AS
Derby Railway AS
Bay Malton AS
Ribchester AS
Burton Mutual AA
Wheelock AS
Trent Pollution - Petition the Prime Minister
- Thread starter MarkTheSpark
- Start date
Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)
Moderator
Done...any chance of getting this up as a banner headline at top of home page for us and Fish and Fly
(indeed any way of getting our techie to arrange it so that once you log on you can't get off until you've signed the petition..or have already signed it....there are some things more important than free will!!)
(indeed any way of getting our techie to arrange it so that once you log on you can't get off until you've signed the petition..or have already signed it....there are some things more important than free will!!)
Stealph Viper
Well-known member
r1paul
Well-known member
signed this morning .
Nobby C (ACA)
Well-known member
Done, this should be nationwide.
Neneman Nick
Well-known member
Just signed up.
MarkTheSpark
Senior Member
Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)
Senior Member
I've signed it and sent the link to my club secretary requesting they put a link on the club website.
Mark,
The picture that appears on your blog; is that actually from this incident or is it a 'library' picture?
The reason I ask is that, despite all the media's words, I haven't yet seen a picture from the affected stretches of the Trent.
The picture that appears on your blog; is that actually from this incident or is it a 'library' picture?
The reason I ask is that, despite all the media's words, I haven't yet seen a picture from the affected stretches of the Trent.
Fin the Fish
Active member
Signed, and I'm spamming it to all my friends and family too.
Our will be done!
Our will be done!
MarkTheSpark
Senior Member
No, Peter. I nicked it from an enviro website, and it's somewhere abroad. But you're right; local newspapers have never been so lazy
One wasn't!
Drop down the page
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...mages?q=fish+pollution+Trent&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=G
Drop down the page
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...mages?q=fish+pollution+Trent&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=G
Dave Lumb
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Graham Marsden
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Graham Whatmore
Senior Member
Well done Graham, (and Mark of course) the more it is publicised the more chance we have of getting something done - eventually. Its just a pity our noble dailies are engrossed with MP's expenses for their headlines, they could achieve something much more worthwhile by having a good old rant about the pollution incident and our rivers in general.
Whilst I was on the committee of our local angling club we had a poisoning of the small stretch of canal in Lydney that empties into the Severn. This was the third time the guilty company had perpetrated such an act and it resulted in us losing the bulk of the fish in said canal, carp to over 30lb, bream to 10lb, roach to 2lb, perch and pike as well, all killed by wanton negligence. They were made to pay our club the princely sum of £1200 in the way of replacement fish which we never saw (though the EA said they had put them in) and how much was the fine? Nothing, just a warning - for the third time. Now tell me they care.
Whilst I was on the committee of our local angling club we had a poisoning of the small stretch of canal in Lydney that empties into the Severn. This was the third time the guilty company had perpetrated such an act and it resulted in us losing the bulk of the fish in said canal, carp to over 30lb, bream to 10lb, roach to 2lb, perch and pike as well, all killed by wanton negligence. They were made to pay our club the princely sum of £1200 in the way of replacement fish which we never saw (though the EA said they had put them in) and how much was the fine? Nothing, just a warning - for the third time. Now tell me they care.
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klik2change
Well-known member
It took decades from the first notion of putting irresponsible company directors in the dock, for killing their employees and innocent members of the public, by negligently hazardous behaviour or dangerous incompetence. There have indeed been some prison sentences, though fines for injury are still far too low.
There will therefore be some resistance within the legal establishment to imprisoning polluters. However, that need not stop us coming up with a working figure to suggest to our lords and masters.
What about:
-The cost of cleaning up thoroughly
-the cost of replacing destroyed wildlife
-a punishment fine of TEN times the total of the above.
That should sting a bit.
I will be suggesting that to my MP.
There will therefore be some resistance within the legal establishment to imprisoning polluters. However, that need not stop us coming up with a working figure to suggest to our lords and masters.
What about:
-The cost of cleaning up thoroughly
-the cost of replacing destroyed wildlife
-a punishment fine of TEN times the total of the above.
That should sting a bit.
I will be suggesting that to my MP.
teztench
Well-known member
Done and Dusted.Tight Lines
Jeff Woodhouse
Moaning Marlow Meldrew
I've just written to my MP about this case and about the pitiful sentences inflicted.
He's standing down at the next election, but hopefully he will pass it on to other members of the house.
He's standing down at the next election, but hopefully he will pass it on to other members of the house.