tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79470370258007440072009-11-01T14:57:35.072ZTime For Change in Thanet. An area and council rated in the bottom 10% of the UK's 440 Councils - by the Government itself.Tim Garbutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16493729402079392468timgarbutt@yahoo.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947037025800744007.post-52258564738475937092009-11-01T08:05:00.004Z2009-11-01T14:57:35.089Z

Most of the problems with the airport are being resolved. Very few flights now.Which is good.Pointless poisoning your own citizens with aviation fuel. And pointless poisoning your own water supply.Not one flight. Not one helicopter. Closed.No lung cancer. No aviation fuel. Nothing.As MP I will assist with the EU inquiries into Lubeck and Prestwick and tighter regulation of noise and air

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To put the danger in the reduction of air monitoring at Manston here’s a link to a diffusion tube:http://cambridge.org/us/engineering/author/nellisandklein/downloads/examples/EXAMPLE_9.4-1.pdfAs you can see they are literally a 7cm test tube that’s exposed for a month to record any air pollution. As they’re the simplest – and cheapest – way to sample air pollution they’re usually used in large

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It gets worse.I’ve received the latest air monitoring from KIACC.The significance of the report is that the UK limit is 40 g/m for all the nasty emissions like benzene etc, and in 2008 the average at Manston (with poor monitoring) was 31 m/g – an airport expansion at Manston can only be achieved by not monitoring the increase in air pollution.The Kentmere monitor was also switched off in Aug 09

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Trying to develop an airport by fudging or removing all the safety measures.Why would you do that?I can understand Infratil doing it: careers to be made, profits, promotion.I can possibly understand a civil servant doing that: careers to be made etc.But why would local councillors and civil servants want to do that?Jobs for the area?OK. I can understand that.But pollution jobs?Bit of political or

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Mike Fuller the Chief Officer of Kent Police has been making a few enquiries around the questions raised in Kent on Sunday over Manston:What Police safety procedures are in place at Manston airport in the event of a crash on the water supply?Mr Fuller: Air travel is one of the safest forms of transport both for passenger and for freight flights. Before an airport is licensed its management have

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Seeing the national parties at work I can’t help but think that they’re so similar now that you could lump them together and have one fairly good main party with maybe 3 or 4 smaller offshoots. Rather than 3 large and bland copycat parties.New Labour as Thatcher-lite, Cameron Tories as New Labour-lite and Libdems as a bit of everything.Cameron’s raised some sensible points recently on curbing

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I hope the Ramsgate ferry happens: congratulations to anyone of any party that makes it happen. 20 years and counting. This year and counting.Certainly a far better idea than the silly “new town centre” of a shopping centre with in-fill houses on farmland near-the-town-centres at Westwood.Thanet’s looking more like a polluted, derelict and burned down version of Milton Keynes every day.If the

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Hello.This is a TDC and Manston public announcement.As Chief Executive of Thanet Council I understand there are public concerns over TDC’s role in developing the airport and I wanted to use this opportunity to put one or two matters straight.It ain’t me. I had nuffink to do wiv it.I saw some papers but I don’t remember. It was Brian White wot done it.He can change his job title and department

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At last the minutes and webpage is available from Ramsgate Town Council today - the old “get the info out the day before the meeting tomorrow” trick it seems, partial/fudged minutes etc etc – and it seems impossible for the public to add items to the agenda such as Pleasurama, Thor, Richboro, Infratil etc.Anyone going to RTC’s 4th meeting tomorrow (7pm at Albion House, Ramsgate's Town Hall) may

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A report in Thanet Extra (page 2) on the “Thanet cesspit” that is the pollution in Pegwell bay one of the worst 2% of polluted rivers in UK.http://www.thanetepaper.co.uk/index.aspxThe report correctly highlights the much tougher punishments elsewhere in Europe for deliberate pollution.Geoff Wild the KCC legal and flytipping expert has repeatedly refused to remove the dumped jumbo jets at Manston:

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Well, not a proper survey a bit of a partial one from Steve Ladyman and local Labour councillors - and the latest flight reports from Infratil.Key points from Infratil and TDC's latest report are:#50% of flights over towns ie breaching safe flight routes#No air monitoring#No community fund payments#2 flights taking off during the night hours – plus others landing#Noise levels c.84-89 decibels:

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Now the truth comes out.Let's ignore 2 747 cargo flights over central Ramsgate yesterday at rooftop height: tonnes of aviation fuel vapour straight on the heads of the local population.And noise and air monitoiringf removed by TDC and Infratil. Never even the much-promised mobile monitors.So the only monitoring will be via the lungs of Thanet's population - with the highest lung cancer rates in

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The Thanet Times has detailed how Thanet’s councillors have now requested Infratil to clarify the confusion over their night flight request.I wonder how much council time and money has been wasted on this farce – after all Infratil announced the request with TDC at a press conference only a few weeks ago.There was no confusion then or now:# extending night flights by an extra 90 minutes from 6am

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I thought I’d tweak the TDC vision as some of it is very good although there are a couple of areas that seem both lengthy, unachievable and reliant on the airport without factoring in the cost of polluted water and lung cancer: you can see the original here.TDC’s first draft vision: http://www.thanet.gov.uk/council__democracy/thanet_vision.aspx?lang=en-gbI couldn't resist the bit about sailor

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Night flights for Thanet. Lung cancer for all.http://tdc-mg-dmz.thanet.gov.uk/Published/C00000144/M00001793/AI00003333/$Annex1DraftConsultationPlan_v1.docA.ps.pdfA bit of nonsense with the draft airport consultation plan – it’s got the sticky fingers of the Gang of Four all over it.The airport's dead in the water but the longer they drag it out the more paycheques they collect.By my reckoning the

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Best wishes to Hilary Jephcott reported in the local papers who's standing on the 4th Plinth artwork in Traflagar Square tomorrow to raise awareness of breast cancer.She's had surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy and is on the road to recovery.The Plinth artwork by Angel of the North sculptor Antony Gormley will be able to view at www.oneandother.co.uk from Thursday (possibly live too).

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http://bhopalwater.com/#http://www.bhopal.org/The first link doesn't always work but can be clicked through from the 2nd link. Samples of "Bhopal (B'eaupal) Water" provided to Dow Chemicals to have a taste.Dow refused a taste.I would too. It's poisonous. Even droplets on your skin. Even breathing it in.Clealry Thor isn't as dangerous as Bhopal where 20,000 died straight away and then many more

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A double page spread on pages 24 and 25 various pollution incidents in China which seem all too familiar at Infratil and Thor:“authorities closed a chemical plant in central China after two locals died of cadmium poisoning. Chinese newspapers exposed a long-running scandal of political collusion that allowed the plant to flout environmental standards”.How many died at Thor before it was

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The new East Kent EKSLP strategy is circulating for TDC Cabinet approval and seems very sensible. It does largely tie-in with the new TDC “Cleaner, Safer, Greener Thanet” strategy.I’ve never seen so much activity from MacMillan cancer support in the area. Plus a Ramsgate cancer victim on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square: seems lots of hi-profile activity to reduce the early death rate.TDC have

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The 3rd meeting of RTC last night and a series of rigged questions, bewildered silence, off-agenda items and one heated debate over the cost of a bouncy castle.I've made a formal compaint to Dave Green as Mayor below.Clearly the towns that burn down aand fall down are entrusted to councillors and civil servants by the public.If they can't do thje job then new ones are required.Hi DaveAs Mayor I

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No, not the Flybe plane yesterday that on a Sunday circulated over all the Thanet towns. It looked to be a 737 with a few tons of kerosene fuel; to shed over the people and beaches. The musicians on the Broadstairs bandstand had to pause every so often as it circulated.Clearly someone better at maths than I could work out exactly how many tons of fuel and likely cancer effect. Factor in that this

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Nein to ChinaGateway: it seems extremely foolish for Kolonel Latchford to be still marching in step with the China Gateway crew.Dodgy trips to China for fake conferences and Tesco bags of receipts.Fake dual political donations for Thanet’s largest-ever Planning application and huge public protests that resulted in it being approved by being kicked into the long grass.Herr Kolonel seems to have

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With every Chinese takeaway. A side order of lung cancer too.A video link to Ken Wills of CGP (now CGI China Gateway Investments) for ChinaGateway: I think for just Manston now rather than Wigan and Dover too. Not sure if it’s funded by CGP as a division or a separate company.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvHeqW3JcYThe Chinese delegation is a mix of UNIDO the UN poverty agency – bizarrely

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Clearly night flights at Manston is a very silly policy by one or two of our councillors and civil servants. Especially given their repeated 106 breaches.Equally silly are weekend overflights and the “loop” training flights for untrained pilots.With the highest lung cancer rate in Kent and the runway built on the drinking water, and air pollution drifting over the population of over 130,000 it’s

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Last time I looked Thanet’s and Kent Police (and Sussex and the Met) were paid from public funds.From, memory I thin it’s about 5% of council tax. Plus national tax.One of the strengths of the British Police is that they’re not a State force but of the people and for the people.We seem to have a culture of ”public sector partnerships” though. I don’t recall the council or fire brigade or anyone

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