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Newport Wetlands, photo by @nspugh.
I visited here in Dec 2013 after hearing about the Calm Campaign.
The large lagoons here once contained a whitish slurry made up of water and pulverised fuel ash (PFA), the residue of the coal burnt in the power station. Now they are full of open water and reedbeds, and birds and other wildlife thrive there where industrial waste was once dumped.
I notice a mole hill just on the grassy verge there, it was a pale grey in colour, had no body as such, very powdery and light in weight. I presumed this was the remnants of that said PFA.
Recently I've found out that this coal power station is due to be closed down. There a few other power stations dotted around our coasts. One going...
www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/20/sse-close-coal-f...
Adjacent to here on the Gwent Levels the Welsh Government are looking to build a motorway relief road, listen to what Iolo Williams had to say...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJQjtvngqA
One of the UK’s most precious wetland landscapes is under threat from the Welsh Government's road building plans.
www.wtwales.org/wildlife-issues/m4-road-proposals
One such solution, proposed by Professor Stuart Cole, a leading transport economist, is called the ‘The Blue Route’
www.wtwales.org/sites/default/files/the_blue_route.pdf
M4 relief road: Government urged to abandon £1bn plans to adopt 'cheaper and quicker' alternative
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/m4-relief-road-gove...
I can 'say no more' on M4 relief road, says Edwina Hart bbc.in/VnCi3b
No M4 relief road reversal says Edwina Hart . Friends of the Earth Cymru has said it is willing to take the decision to judicial review unless the consultation process is restarted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-28692055
The Calm Campaign www.savethelevels.org.uk
twitter: @CalmCampaign
I will return hopefully to illustrate the flourishing ecology.
More photos: power, land & sea
www.flickr.com/photos/65365631@N04/sets/72157638733672426/
Further Refs:
16 January 2014
M4 relief road 'broadly supported' by Newport council
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25748541
Mae sefydliad statudol Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru yn mynnu nad oes 'na "rhesymeg polisi clir" dros M4 newydd
ar wastadeddau Gwent.
Statutory environmental body Natural Resources Wales states there is "no clear policy rationale" for a new stretch of M4 over the Gwent Levels.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-government-m4...
reclaim:
Newport Wetlands, photo by @nspugh.
I visited here in Dec 2013 after hearing about the Calm Campaign.
The large lagoons here once contained a whitish slurry made up of water and pulverised fuel ash (PFA), the residue of the coal burnt in the power station. Now they are full of open water and reedbeds, and birds and other wildlife thrive there where industrial waste was once dumped.
I notice a mole hill just on the grassy verge there, it was a pale grey in colour, had no body as such, very powdery and light in weight. I presumed this was the remnants of that said PFA.
Recently I've found out that this coal power station is due to be closed down. There a few other power stations dotted around our coasts. One going...
www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/20/sse-close-coal-f...
Adjacent to here on the Gwent Levels the Welsh Government are looking to build a motorway relief road, listen to what Iolo Williams had to say...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJQjtvngqA
One of the UK’s most precious wetland landscapes is under threat from the Welsh Government's road building plans.
www.wtwales.org/wildlife-issues/m4-road-proposals
One such solution, proposed by Professor Stuart Cole, a leading transport economist, is called the ‘The Blue Route’
www.wtwales.org/sites/default/files/the_blue_route.pdf
M4 relief road: Government urged to abandon £1bn plans to adopt 'cheaper and quicker' alternative
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/m4-relief-road-gove...
I can 'say no more' on M4 relief road, says Edwina Hart bbc.in/VnCi3b
No M4 relief road reversal says Edwina Hart . Friends of the Earth Cymru has said it is willing to take the decision to judicial review unless the consultation process is restarted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-28692055
The Calm Campaign www.savethelevels.org.uk
twitter: @CalmCampaign
I will return hopefully to illustrate the flourishing ecology.
More photos: power, land & sea
www.flickr.com/photos/65365631@N04/sets/72157638733672426/
Further Refs:
16 January 2014
M4 relief road 'broadly supported' by Newport council
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25748541
Mae sefydliad statudol Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru yn mynnu nad oes 'na "rhesymeg polisi clir" dros M4 newydd
ar wastadeddau Gwent.
Statutory environmental body Natural Resources Wales states there is "no clear policy rationale" for a new stretch of M4 over the Gwent Levels.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-government-m4...