Environmentalist warns over Belle Greve deep-water berth
Friday 8th February 2013, 10:00AM GMT.
One of the possibilities for the development of the ports which forms part of the Public Services Department's master plan.
BELLE GREVE is a unique and wonderful habitat for wildlife and any development needs to be careful not to damage it, environmentalist Vic Froome has warned.
The RSPB communications officer said that although the east coast bay was not often seen as a thriving wildlife spot, species such a worms, limpets and an array of birds could be found in the area.
Public Services identified a deep-water berth off Belle Greve as a priority in its ports master plan.
It suggested the infrastructure – running south from Longue Hougue for cargo and fuel at a cost of between £71m. and £143m. – would benefit future fuel imports.
Mr Froome said that, although he had not looked at the plans in detail, work must be carefully considered.
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The sooner Belle Greve is filled in the better. Imagine what could be done
with all the space from Salery to Bulwer Avenue.
Sort sewerage out once and for all,waste disposal etc, separate road for commercial traffic, loads more benefits.
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wow, DeeVee, you must have a nightmare driving, not being able to see beyond the end of your nose an’ all.
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If the future is green energy (wind, solar, tidal and the like) then why do we need to spend money making sure fuel can get in? If we move the island to cheap clean energy then electric cars would make sense here meaning no need to car petrol and I would guess less demand would mean the infrastructure we have now could cope with that? I think the over used joint up thinking may actually need to be used here and argued before we should get behind this.
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The development of Belle Greve must consider asthetic and Community requiremnents, not just oil transport/deep waater berths. Let us have the taste and judgement required to add to island amenities. Too long government has produced stirile, tasteless developments that have provide parking for cas and boats blighted the North Beach area.
Nothing should be done which doesn’t take into consideration the advantages of a ‘Port Grimaud’ development project. Combinng, a tourist, pedestrian friendly seas side village atmosphere with water side housing, pedestrian friendly centre, achourage, and preserving/enhancing views to the islands, such a project could become a valued feature of Guernsey’s future.
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Enhanced of course by those delicious smells coming off the sea!
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Well said Rustylink, however I believe any multi-million pound development near Longue Hougue will be doomed as the future happiness of a few worms and limpets will be considered of such utmost environmental importance that the greenies will rise up and shout with one voice – and, much worse, our States will listen to them!
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Cabou
You must realise that these worms and limpets, their low aesthetic appeal notwithstanding, serve the indispensable purpose of regulating the dynamic equilibrium of food chains as well as biogeochemical cycles.
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Vic Froome warrants immense commendation for not relinquishing his strong beliefs in what he views as fauna in need of protection and fulfilling the demands for those who express concern for phenomena other than that which occurs in their home and back yard.
Knowledge from the RSPB would be indispensable as they have an extensive awareness of the importance of birds in sustaining favourable relationships between the environment’s abiotic and biotic components.
The benefits of developing Belle Greve on future fuel imports, conservation of its biodiversity is far more important from an ecological perspective.
If those involved in this venture wish to gain a precise, more scientific understanding of this area’s ecological-richness, they ought to calculate its species diversity…
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We have a cable link to Jersey, how about an oil pipeline,..
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I think it was markB who rightly mentioned on another page that financial gain Iis a driving force behind evil. Well, although I do not think it brings about evil, I believe that concern for oil because if its high amenity value is an obstruction to the world’s environmental well being. Therefore, why must fuel be such a major concern ? Surely it’s far better to experience prosperity in a spiritual sense and not financial sense as lucrative business ventures and opulent lifestyles which are fuelled by oil, their positive impact on one’s material well being notwithstanding, may have potentially dire future consequences.
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My sentiments exactly Rustylink andCabou!
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71-143 million to do this…..
Just purely as a matter of interest, DeeVee, how do you propose, bearing in mind the trivial matter of the financial sh&t we’re already in, the shrinkage of our major money making industry and worldwide recessions inevitable backlash, that we pay for all this?
Do you have a couple of money trees growing in that strange deluded little world you live in that appears devoid of fiscal implications…or perhaps you’re one of the beneficiaries of that 2.6 mill that got nicked, and will offer your share back to help pay for it (not that it would pay for much) in return for a civil service pension (not that we have enough money for that either, but never mind)….maybe you’d be willing to see VAT introduced here and see your taxes go through the roof to fund this-and perhaps the other ridiculously unaffordable hair brained schemes they’ve come up with?
Look forward to your proposals with interest.
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Would this environmentalist happen to own property along North, Glategny or St Georges Esplanades? I don’t blame him, or anyone else from that area, for not wanting his view of worms and limpets busily feeding on sewage and other stinking material, being hidden by landfill or piers or anything else. Fair go, mate, eh?
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Vic Froome is correct. Belle Greve Bay is certainly a unique environment. Onerous international regulations have made it of the few locations in the civilised world where nature can fully immerse itself in millions of litres of untreated human effluent.
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Mouche, excellent summary !
I just wish everyone else could realise that…
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