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Ok apolgies - first of course I meant North-east Lincolnshire, not North Lincolnshire, which is something entirely different. Secondly I should have gone into more detail for the majority here not receiving the Grimsby Telegraph. Here is a sample of quotations from tuesday:
"Council chief George Krawiec has called for a common sense approach to South Bank development - prioritising jobs above displacing birds".
"North East Lincolnshire's top civil servant has said enough is enough".
"There are mega mega opportunities in the biofuels and chemical industries - however we have two problems that need to be tackled together with industry. In relation to flood risk he said 'The Environment Agency has to understand we need balance to make development happen'.
And on the wildlife front he said 'its absolutely ridiculous some of the things [Natural England] insist on. We can have lots of twitchers but they don't feed people with jobs. Birds do move round when it comes to the environment changing. Why do we have to create these massive reserves? We need to have some balance".
Presumably the current 'balance', whereby industry and economic growth so overwhelmingly dominate conservation concerns that we are experiencing a human-induced mass extinction event, isn't 'balanced' enough for him.
The article is additionally annoying for three reasons; one because it the quotes come from someone so senior in the Council (the leader, no less); two because it was printed uncritically in the most anti-environmental paper I've ever come across, the Grimsby Telegraph (whose pro-business and anti-wildlife bias over the years must have taken years off my life); and three, it comes hard on the heels of the story about the golden plovers which apparently held up planning consent for Grimsby Town's new football ground, during which seemingly the whole town including a number of senior, well-respected figures piled in to say what a stupid waste of time birds were.
There, I appear to have put myself in a bad temper again (deep breaths....)
Bill
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