URGENT help needed to save beautiful lake
magda | 26.01.2007 20:16 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Oxford
Radley Lakes, near Oxford, is going to be filled with flyash by N Power. The only thing stopping them at the moment is a small (but brave) bunch of squatters, who need urgent help as they are going to be evicted any minute. They need people prepared to lock on and make this as difficult as possible.
The lake contains several protected species, including a possible sighting of otters, and despite a report paid for by local people confirming all this the local government bigwigs have given permission for N Power to fill the lake with flyash from Didcot power station, killing everything in the process. They have already been allowed to do this to 3 other lakes in the immediate vicinity. The local county ecologist has dismissed the report, despite a long term campaign and evidence from another ecologist proving the lake is a wildlife haven. The whole thing stinks.
Please, please if you are free this week, (or even better, right now), get down there, lock on, and make sure they have a fight on their hands. The bayliffs are due any minute and more squatters are desperately needed.
Get off the train at Oxford, then catch train to Radley, takes about 10 mins, then another 10/15 minute walk. For more info call the site mobile on: 07772055384.
The lake contains several protected species, including a possible sighting of otters, and despite a report paid for by local people confirming all this the local government bigwigs have given permission for N Power to fill the lake with flyash from Didcot power station, killing everything in the process. They have already been allowed to do this to 3 other lakes in the immediate vicinity. The local county ecologist has dismissed the report, despite a long term campaign and evidence from another ecologist proving the lake is a wildlife haven. The whole thing stinks.
Please, please if you are free this week, (or even better, right now), get down there, lock on, and make sure they have a fight on their hands. The bayliffs are due any minute and more squatters are desperately needed.
Get off the train at Oxford, then catch train to Radley, takes about 10 mins, then another 10/15 minute walk. For more info call the site mobile on: 07772055384.
magda
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get proof
26.01.2007 21:23
Otter
Any more info?
27.01.2007 12:21
Gummy
loads of info
02.02.2007 13:47
Please do switch suppliers, tell Npower why, and get your friends too as well :-)
bob
npower's Renewables
03.02.2007 20:56
Any renewables they do have are more than likely to be the bare minimum as they are "un-economic" for such suppliers.
James
Npower won't wash!
11.02.2007 13:19
npower ash dumping - greywash
npower ecological restoration - greenwash
npower public relations - brainwash
npower recycling - hogwash
npower test-matches - whitewash
npower electricity sales - won't wash
This summarises the company that wants to trash the lakes. They want to buy the community by funding the local wildlife trust, the local athletics and football club, the local newspaper and (via the newspaper) the local schools. They also sponsor English cricket. And now they're sticking their noses into red nose day.
If you sign up with Npower they make £30 profit per year, every year and they are said to be giving £1 to red nose day, just this year. Who benefits? Their German shareholders. Their cheap electricity isn't worth it if they halved the price. Not if they ruin our Town Green at Radley Lakes.
Can readers please tell customers of RWE.com, whose HQ is in Essen, Germany, but who have fingers in companies all over the place, please to send out information about what Npower is doing at Radley and please to tear up their contracts with Npower.
Also, buy one share on the German Stock Exchange and go to their AGM in April and harangue the Chairman and Chief Executive, Mr Harry Roels, a Dutchman.
Lakesaver