Office for Environmental Protection County Hall Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NP email hidden; JavaScript is required Tel. 03300 416581 Marinet Limited Cedar Lodge Allington Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 6LW email hidden; JavaScript is required Tel. 01249 653972 26th November 2022. By email and Royal Mail. OEP Complaint Registration Number: CMS 358. For the attention of: Stewart […]
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- How to make the Environment Act deliver on sewage pollution
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- The rates and impacts of sand mining in the Lower Mekong River, Vietnam
- How Zurich, Switzerland, has blazed a trail for Recycled Concrete
- Illegal sand mining is ruining these countries’ ecosystems
- As scientists explore how life in the abyss could generate new medicines, is deep-sea mining threatening to wipe it out?
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- A Brief History of Oil Pollution in the Oceans, featuring Torrey Canyon incident
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- House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee takes expert evidence on sewage pollution of the rivers and sea
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- Supplementary submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s ‘Water Quality in Rivers’ inquiry looking at the extent of ultra-violet (UV) treatment at UK sewage treatment works
- Supplementary submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s ‘Water Quality in Rivers’ inquiry looking at the impact of indoor intensive livestock (factory) farming
Office for Environmental Protection Marinet Limited County Hall Cedar Lodge Spetchley Road Allington Worcester Chippenham WR5 2NP Wiltshire SN14 6LW email hidden; JavaScript is required email hidden; JavaScript is required Tel. 03300 416581 Tel. 01249 653972 16th November 2022. OEP Complaint Registration Number: CMS 358. For the attention of: Stewart Cheeseman and Louisa Martinez Medina, […]
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Office for Environmental Protection Marinet Limited County Hall Cedar Lodge Spetchley Road Allington Worcester Chippenham WR5 2NP Wiltshire SN14 6LW email hidden; JavaScript is required email hidden; JavaScript is required Tel. 03300 416581 Tel. 01249 653972 4th November 2022. OEP Complaint Registration Number: CMS 358. For the attention of: Stewart Cheeseman and Louisa Martinez Medina, […]
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For the attention of: The Office for Environmental Protection. From: Marinet Limited. 11th July 2022. Legal Failure of the Dept. for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to prevent severe pollution of the River Wye catchment. Dear OEP, We submit our attached report “Why are we killing the Wye, and when will we stop? […]
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This evaluation by Deborah Wright looks at the nature of the agreement made in March 2023 to establish a Treaty that will protect the oceans’ High Seas, and create Marine Protected Areas covering 30% of their High Seas. A look at the UN high seas treaty
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The Environment Act is unlikely to solve the sewage pollution of English rivers and seas, unless certain additional actions are taken. This article written by David Levy, Marinet member, outlines some of these essential additional actions that require immediate delivery. When the opportunity arose in 2021 during the passage of the Environment Bill through […]
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We provide here an assessment by Brian Morgan, Marinet member, of the complex background and range of risks that may be encountered by visitors to England’s beaches. This is an authoritative summary of the subject, fully supported by scientific references. Nearly all of the health hazards in UK waters arise from the quite recent […]
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We provide here a summary of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s report on Water Quality in Rivers in England, published January 2022. Our summary contains a critique by Marinet of the report’s strengths and weaknesses. This parliamentary report reveals very serious problems in the quality of our rivers and it examines the causes […]
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We provide here a link to a YouTube webinar recording (1 hour in length) which gives an insight into the rate and impact of sand mining on the River Mekong, Vietnam. This is an academic seminar, presented by Dr. Chris Hackney, Newcastle University. It confirms that sand mining of rivers in SE Asia […]
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This is a copy of an article published by Bloomberg CityLab + Green, 27th September 2021. It records how cities, particularly Zurich in Switzerland, are now trying to make all new concrete buildings be constructed from recycled aggregate. In 2002 Zurich built a school using 80% recycled aggregate, in 2005 the city’s government […]
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This is a 30 minutes video report by Vice News which reports on the sand mining taking place in Bangladesh’s rivers. This river mining for sand is taking place on a massive scale, much of it being conducted illegally. It is having a profound ecological impact on the country’s rivers. Whilst […]
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The Guardian 29th September 2021. Article from The Guardian series: Seascape: the state of our oceans As scientists explore how life in the abyss could generate new medicines, is deep-sea mining threatening to wipe it out? by Helen Scales, The Guardian, 29th September 2021. It has been 30 years since the last new […]
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The Guardian 28th September 2021. Article from The Guardian series: Seascape: the state of our oceans ‘False choice’: is deep-sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution? by Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 28th September 2021. At the Goodwood festival of speed near Chichester, the crowds gathered at the hill-climb circuit to watch the […]
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The Guardian 27th September 2021. Article from The Guardian series: Seascape: the state of our oceans Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea by Jonathan Watts, Guardian Global Environment Editor. A short bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South Pacific to a little-known institution […]
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Written by Brian Morgan, Marinet member — a short biography about Brian Morgan is available on his Marinet blog page. The Torrey Canyon Incident This article relates to oil pollution at sea, and especially the far reaching effects of the Torrey Canyon incident. The Torrey Canyon was an oil tanker, en route from Kuwait […]
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Deep in the ocean lie what some say are crucial resources for expanding the world’s renewable energy. The discovery of mineral riches in the deep-sea has sparked a mining mania, but also concern about environmental impact. Mining companies are hoping to gather metals and minerals called polymetallic nodules which contain manganese and cobalt, elements that […]
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We provide here a link to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s expert witness session, 21st April 2021, which examined the nature, cause and scale of sewage pollution of the country’s rivers and sea.
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We provide here a link to the BBC 1 Panorama programme, 12th April 2021, which examined the nature, cause and scale of sewage pollution of the country’s rivers and sea.
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This supplementary submission to the Env. Audit Committee considers the treatment of human sewage at sewage treatment works (STWs) in the UK, focusing primarily on data relating to the English water companies on the assumption that the other countries of the UK are following a similar pattern. For discharges of treated sewage effluent to rivers […]
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This supplementary submission to the Env. Audit Committee considers the scale and impact of intensive livestock (factory) farming in the United Kingdom, accompanied by the key questions of what happens to the animal sewage waste arising from these farms, is this animal sewage waste properly treated, and is it entering the the rivers and the […]
