[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am concerned that all the attention is on BW grant cuts, EA have had their
> grant cut as well. As EA hasn't the resources BW has this is going to have
> more of an impact especially in the long term.
>
The main difference is that so far the EA has not announced any reductions in
the navigation budget. As it has all sorts of other things within its remit -
flood prevention, pollution control, environmental protection etc - it can
choose which areas to cut. So far, navigation has been pretty much unscathed,
while a lot of flood prevention work appears to have been chopped.
The flip-side of this is of course that they can do the opposite and target
navigation more than other areas in the future. We are worried that this is
what might happen next year or the year after.
So while we can lobby EA to continue to concentrate its cuts in areas other
than navigation, it';s not as easy to lobby Defra concerning cuts in the EA
budget when so far they haven't affected us and there is no immediate sign that
they are about to.
Martin L
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