Time for Change: Campaign for an Independent Green Thanet MP and Ramsgate Mayor

No details on Thor mercury factory toxins in Margate, UK (why open when banned in 1988 - and Thor itself handling the cleanup) - also Thor sites around the world and mercury storage and processing in Almaden, Spain and Algeria. http://www.chem.unep.ch/Mercury/Pretoria-proceedings-finalPDFwriter.pdf http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=a909597g All reported on by UNEP and Royal Society of Chemistry - and ignored. Why the silence now from Kent County Council, Thanet District Council and Environment Agency. Obviously it's career-damaging for civil servants not to close a banned factory. And is the site now being used simply as a dumping ground? Where are the toxin level reports? The number and type of containers there? Photos of the barrels and warehouses? The discharge amounts and type? The sampling sites and dates for toxin samples? Names. Signatures. Or was it simply not done. Silence from Kent Police. No site visit for a banned factory? Silence...

Front page of Your Thanet on the pollution into Pegwell Bay from the airport. Very shocking. http://www.yourthanet.co.uk/kent-news/Pegwell-Bay--can-it-take-any-more-pollution--newsinkent39158.aspx?news=local A UNESCO wetland – like the Camargue or Nile Delta and the scum and scoundrels at Infratil have simply tapped a drainage pipe into the road system and dumped aviation fuel and chemicals into the Bay. No doubt damaging the shrimps and washing gunge around our Blue Flag beaches. And all supposedly banned and regulated by TDC and the Environment Agency. It's not that they didn't know - simply doing nothing. Year after year. The ludicrous £80M New Road Scheme – yet only £3M for Dreamland - for half a mile of dual carriageway and 12 foot high earth berms is yet more white elephant glory project road building through farmland. And still the planes fly onto the water supply. The last rump of flights: one Flybe every day or so and a Cargolux every day or so – no doubt the minimum t...

LD lines goes bust on the Dover-Boulogne route today. One ship will be withdrawn and the remaining one possibly freight only as the Channel ferries consolidate. Not good for Ramsgate Port – a council review tomorrow – as the passenger service never materialised as the ship didn’t fit and apart from c.20 HGV’s per sailing there are few Port jobs not funded by the taxpayer. Weeds on the ferry terminal roof say it all. The Marina should go from strength to strength but without a passenger service to Ostend or Boulogne then Ramsgate Port is pointless. The air pollution form the ships looks heavy and presumably the warehouses are largely empty. And Pegwell Bay carries the scars of the failed Hoverport and is in need of extra pollution attention. Yachties complain about cold showers in the toilet block compared to other marinas. The first new Vattenfall building is bizarrely built into the warehouse whole the 2nd new on is a Portakabin with more car park near the empty NCP. The suggested new...

And a 3rd plane - presumably Cargolux - landing at quarter past midnight last night: over an hour since Manston airport should close. Do the CAA and Police check these flights or do Infratil just breach the operating guidelines as and when they feel like it? Why bother smuggling bags of heroin from Amsterdam - just fly a 747 in from Luxembourg on a Sunday and offload pallets of it for London or shoot up to Glasgow the drugs capital of Europe - careful not to fly into Canary Wharf by accident though And an airport built on the drinking water supply is this the CAA at its best? And why are Infratil and TDC allowing breaches of the operating hours and flightpaths? If you're interested innthe water supply then email lisa.beeching@environment-agency.gov.uk and ask for the Southern Water and Environment Agency reports on Manston, the water reservoir, Manston Firestation and Thor mercury: dates, toxin levels, signatures etc. They keep refusing to provide them to me. Similar fudge and s...

Who is in the radar tower at Manston allowing these breaches of the specified flight paths? Where are the CAA-required flight logs to check the flight paths and fines? How do the Police and Customs check on these random and banned flights? And why does Flybe fly in to Manston from over the Channel end and towns? Isn't it supposed to be flying to Edinburgh? Isn't the reality that Manston has no control tower obvere the weekend and the last Flybe and Caregolux flights are simply to keep ther airport operating license open. The flights are of no value whatsoever. Except to pollute and endanger the public.

Your Thanet letter (P.14): With Margate having a life expectancy 18 years lower than the rest of Kent: dying at 63 instead of 81 years old, we are now on a par with Haiti or Burma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy Should we be paying council tax to be killed off this early? More importantly where are the toxin details for Thor, Richboro, Manston fire station and cancer deaths from Manston airport? Even more importantly are the fools who created this toxic inheritance for their children and grandchildren likely to be the ones to get us out of it? And on P.2 the news that TDC haven't deployed the mobile noise monitor this year. Presumably in previous years too. And still we have overflights of the towns that are specifically banned. We've had our councillors and civil servants quietly agreeing to waive all the specified safety requirements for Manston. For years. Thank goodness we know we cannot trust them. Why haven't derleict sites sucha s R...

Clearly the water in Thanet has been mismanaged by TDC, the Environment Agency and KCC over a number of years. 1. Manston airport built on the East Kent drinking water reservoir – under the runway. Plus – supposedly banned - overflights of the towns 2. Thor mercury on Margate Road: supposedly banned and closed in 1988 but remained open – and still does? 3. Manston Fire station: a leftover from RAF days - again on the drinking water supply - and setting fires to be put out with the drinking water 4. Manston runway drainage tapped into the road system - and the whole lot draining into Pegwell Bay – a UNESCO site 5. Tivoli Brook – discharge concerns: possibly Thor mercury 6. Viking Bay – discharge concerns: possibly Thor mercury 7. The siteing of petrol stations on the water supply and near the shoreline 8. Richboro: a derelict power station of the 1950’s crumbling into the sea for 20 years 9. Oil tankers and cargo ships berthed off Cliftonville and the Blue Flag beaches 10. No full and ...

The A-bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 killed over 110,000 civilians at once. A flash so bright it burned peoples’ shadows into the pavement. And the same number dying slowly over the next 5 years from burns and cancers. Yet, perhaps as never before, a nuclear free world beckons with North Korea, now declaring its nuclear weapons and missiles, facing renewed sanctions as a nuclear pariah again threatening Seoul, Tokyo and perhaps even the Russian nuclear fleet in Vladivostock and Beijing itself. While the closure of Futenma airbase in Okinawa represents the end of the last main US military umbrella in East Asia. With Japan and Taiwan foreswearing nuclear weapons only North Korea remains as the last block to the nuclear free regions of South East Asia and the South Pacific. President Obama may have gained a Nobel Peace Prize for reducing nuclear weapons with Russia but the dangers of a Jihadist bomb with Iran and Pakistan has never been greater. Or worse, the r...

The top 200 civil servants meeting in Margate identified an 18 year health gap between Margate and the rest of Kent. That’s a huge skew for such a small geographic area isn’t it? 18 year difference. Dying at 63 instead of 81 – these are Third World death rates aren’t they? Haiti or Burma or Yemen according to this table. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy What went wrong? Are macro-environment factors an issue: nearby Manston airport and pollution 4x EU limits, Thor mercury banned but remained open for 20 years and derelict Richboro power station? The new Margate Task Force seems the same amalgamation of Fire, Police, Council etc – and a newspaper poll records 80% of the public not believing it would make a difference. It looks as if the wheels have come off the County.

I’m sure Osama is a bit busy at the moment to fly in to Manston. But if EgyptAir can fly into Manston from Ostend - and land at 3am - then maybe he could pay Manston a flying visit. Flytime from Cairo is about 4 hours so the 747 must be setting off - even as Manston is supposedly closed from 11pm. Osama himself could fly in at night, flick the transponder off and just keep going until he hit Canary Wharf. But who’d want to fly a jumbo jet into Canary Wharf at night and risk missing it? With public disregarded surely EgyptAir plus half a dozen Lear jets full of semtex could be used. In broad daylight. Maybe on the weekend. Not quite as spectacular as the World Trade Centre but there you go. As the RAF – hopefully - shoots the jumbo down somewhere over Kent then away the jets go into Parliament. 130,000 people in Thanet have been endangered for an airport glory scheme by nincompoops. A 24 hour cargo airport. By removing the safety measures. And built on the water supply. Opposite Ostend ...