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Malcolm has sent me some interesting correspondence he is having with the Environment Agency that leads me to believe they may not always be, creating a better place, like it says on their logo.
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That is absolutely disgraceful
ReplyDeleteif this was malcom Kir***** I can understand why the response was so. The cost to us tax payers of answering his questions must be in the millions
ReplyDeletePersonally I don’t see how my request, or any others for that matter have cost millions. I can see how millions have been squandered on the Turner centre and supporting a failure of an airline (Eu Jet) at Manston. There are too many other harebrained political and officer led schemes in Thanet and Kent to name where the tax payers have been dealt with wrongly and you know it.
ReplyDeleteIt’s very clear that you have no idea how the FOI system works. This information should be readily available due to the significant problems to our ground water, which is in a parlous state…why it may even be the worst in Europe!!!!
Malcolm Kirkaldie
The thing that concerns me the most is that many of the unanswered questions here are fundamental to making important decisions, both about the safety of local people and the ability to supply an adequate quantity of water for the future.
ReplyDeleteNone of the agencies that I have dealt with relating to the ground water problems has convinced me that they properly understand all of the factors involved, indeed the environment agency wrote to me saying that the hadn’t the resources to read the China Gateway environmental report properly.
This has lead to the ludicrous situation where the report submitted by the developer states quite clearly that the surface water drainage is inadequate, any runoff will be down hill to where our water is pumped from, yet because they failed to read this the environment agency has made no flooding objection.
£100 to tell us how essential and how polluted our aquifer is, didn’t I read that Thanet Earth will be pumping water out of it.