tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post666612983488002040..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Roger Gale Steve Ladyman the drains and Manston AirportMichael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-9632115895073536832009-03-26T10:10:00.000+00:002009-03-26T10:10:00.000+00:00Fascinating article Michael. A lot of very murky d...Fascinating article Michael. <BR/><BR/>A lot of very murky dots are slowly beginning to build a picture. <BR/><BR/>I've only been here for a few years so the more information you can get out there, for peole like me, the better. Is there an aerial-graphic that shows the physical footprint of the aquifier? If not, could you dummy one up and post it? <BR/><BR/>The whole Thor/Sericol/Manston issue needs to be simplified because if what I'm understanding is correct, this story (the whole narrative) is long overdue some interest from some heavy-weight investigative journalists.<BR/><BR/>Great work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-34608780386986019512009-03-25T21:42:00.000+00:002009-03-25T21:42:00.000+00:00The level of ignorance in that article was a littl...The level of ignorance in that article was a little worrying, Michael and well done, yet again, for highlighting the issues clearly. <BR/><BR/>What TDC needs to consider, as it is way behind on this issue, is that is long overdue to actually inform the people of Thanet, through info in Press Releases or its little magazine, that we are all living on a water catchment area and a simple list of Do's and Don'ts to every household is needed based on EA advice. The rural roads around Birchington/Manston/Westgate all need sign posting, as in Germany, that people are entering a 'Water Catchment Area' and that care is needed to avoid.......etc! The average person in Thanet has no clue about Thanet's aquifer and the need to protect it and TDC has a duty to make them aware. Its obsession with the visual environment in urban areas (votes?) has diverted its Environmental Services 'bods' from the far more serious long term pollution going on to the underground aquifer.<BR/>If the drains full of silt on Shottendane Road, Manston Road and Woodchurch Road are anything to go by, KCC Highways clearly do not understand the sensitivity of these areas either. <BR/>TDC needs to look at water run-off from Reclamet into fields opposite due to blocked and inadequate drains, at the centre of an SPZ!Bertie Biggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197385124719226254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-33717796285127547012009-03-25T20:52:00.000+00:002009-03-25T20:52:00.000+00:00You tell them Michael, dont think Roger Gale was e...You tell them Michael, dont think Roger Gale was ever big on detail!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-5842539485419945192009-03-25T19:33:00.000+00:002009-03-25T19:33:00.000+00:00The problem they have is that things weren't done ...The problem they have is that things weren't done properly in the first place. Everything is in place for a major incident/tragedy followed by the mother of all law-suits. The environmental impact should have been assessed right at the outset (by law). This wasn't done. As a consequence, things have been put into the local plan without knowing whether they were practicable or feasible. Infratil has been led to believe that almost unlimited expansion is feasible. This may not be the case. Sadly, the EA has been very lax on this. They've rattled the cage a few times but they haven't confronted the beast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-87574051218449485772009-03-25T19:03:00.000+00:002009-03-25T19:03:00.000+00:00Why bother listening to politicians? They are amon...Why bother listening to politicians? They are amongst the most dishonest, hypocritical, minipulative people on the planet. They hear what they want to hear and say what they want us to hear!<BR/><BR/>Perhaps Sericol and Thor have paid in several thousand pounds to their local parties or their bosses belong to the same lodges as these two herberts!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-85517866573344863472009-03-25T18:56:00.000+00:002009-03-25T18:56:00.000+00:00An excellent post Michael.You are aware of reasons...An excellent post Michael.<BR/><BR/>You are aware of reasons that the MPs may be shoulder to shoulder but I will leave it to you to introduce it to Thanet more fully than I will explore below on your blog when and if you deem it appropriate.<BR/><BR/>At this time neither MP is listed as an Interested Party in the High Court preaction proceedings of which you are aware. Nor have they been publicly named on obligatory Common Law Information. But that might change.<BR/><BR/>Ladyman was challenged by me, via Gazette letters if I recall, about THOR and whether its history informed him to know the situation concerning Saddam's WMD. This challenge was before we invaded Iraq.<BR/><BR/>If I recall correctly (and I may have to trawl Gazette archives at the library) Thanet Socialist Worker Party made a somewhat irate response. <BR/><BR/>If I recall correctly the Thanet SWP declared their IRA supportive position in their published letter.<BR/><BR/>If I recall correctly Ladyman elected silence.<BR/><BR/>And at issue now is, amongst other things, one James SHORTT bogus SAS instructor who used Deal Barracks gym from 76 to 82.<BR/><BR/>Kent Police seem to have suddenly dropped inquiry. What about Mr SHORTT and Wouter BASSON and Porton Down and Thor in South Africa. And the role of BASSON in what we now know were bogus claims that Saddam had WMD ... <BR/><BR/>Get googling if you want to find out for yourselves people. <BR/><BR/>Just remember that Ladyman was asked six years ago and elected silence. Maybe we should not be surprised that Thor is not a name which would appear easily on his lips ?<BR/><BR/>Then there is Sericol. Failing to report to police re alleged forged qualifications and documents by forgers who used Sericol technology. Well now we know that Sericol was covering up a huge tonnage of cyclohexanone they leaked over decades to aquifer. <BR/><BR/>That is to do with Deal Barracks security issues and the 1989 IRA bombing there. A Kent Police inquiry which somehow exempted a certain Mr James SHORTT .....<BR/><BR/>I know let us blame someone who puts their stolen cyclohexanone down the loo ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-25595346288406351492009-03-25T17:28:00.000+00:002009-03-25T17:28:00.000+00:00Thanks Micheal, a useful idiots guide.Talking of w...Thanks Micheal, a useful idiots guide.<BR/><BR/>Talking of which, I heard Gale on the radio saying the problem was down to us, by, for instance, tipping paint thinners down the toilet. Now that isn't the right thing to do but it isn't getting into the groundwater so he's being disingenuous.<BR/><BR/>To be honest I got a bit riled by both MPs since neither of them mention sericol or thor, instead blaming the residents. I mean, the bloody cheek of it!<BR/><BR/>They appear to be shoulder to shoulder - I wonder why?Eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03402958176140459186noreply@blogger.com