Bruce Napier wrote:
I think I'll award you an A+ on that one young Bruce.
WE may be able to do something else with it...
Will
> Some will be aware that the Independent newspaper is currently pushing
> its Green Manifesto, a more radical alternative to the possibly
> promised Climate Change Bill. They've invited readers to contribute
> suggestions for inclusion in Saturday's edition, so I've just
> despatched the following to them.
>
> If others send in their threeha'pence today, we might get something
> included about waterways in the final thing.
>
> All the best
>
> Bruce
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: 27 October 2006 15:23:54 BST
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Transport in the Green Manifesto
>>
>> Dear Sir
>>
>> I most heartily applaud your initiative in publishing the Green
>> Manifesto. It seems to me that transport must be one of the
>> cornerstones of the effort to avert the catastrophe which faces us,
>> and you have rightly campaigned for a rational approach to the
>> management of air travel.
>>
>> Land bound transport is of equal importance, and it is essential that
>> this country adopts the integrated transport structure that was
>> promised us by New Labour, but which it has manifestly failed to
>> deliver. Since the Second World War, the road transport lobby has
>> dominated the Ministry and then Department of Transport, whilst our
>> European colleagues ensure that rail and water play their part to the
>> full. For example, in the UK, construction of the track is paid for
>> out of general taxation for roads, yet rail and water must seek
>> development funds from the private sector.
>>
>> In the case of the waterways, British Waterways' achievements in
>> encouraging the use of canals and rivers to move appropriate cargoes
>> such as waste or heavy construction material has been rewarded by
>> DEFRA with swingeing cuts in their grant-in-aid for this and the next
>> three years.
>>
>> Let us have a level playing field across all modes of transport, and a
>> policy that, through integration, minimises the environmental damage
>> caused and emissions released.
>>
>> Yours faithfully
>>
>>
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