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Category Archives: DEFRA
Will David Eagle’s Plan To Save The Naze Work? Aug 2016
David Eagle’s plan to save the Naze is described in 18 August 2016 Clacton & Frinton Gazette. It prompted me to have another look. David has organised a meeting 7-8:30pm Wednesday 24 August at Columbine Centre to discuss saving the … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, DEFRA, EA, Groynes, Local, SMP, Walton-on-the-Naze
Tagged breakwaters, EA, environment agency, NAI, no active intervention, sea defences, sea level rise, walton-on-the-naze
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John Redwood Writes About EA Again – 10 Feb 2014
John Redwood has another post about EA on his blog today. I left a comment which wasn’t approved so I’ll post it here. The post is titled Independent Bodies Can Cause Worse Problems Than Elected Ministers. The post starts of … Continue reading
Posted in DEFRA, EA, Politics, SMP
Tagged EA, environment agency, flood, john redwood, managed realignment, managed retreat, sea defences, somerset flooding, thames flooding
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UK Environment Agency Second Largest In World – Jan 2014
Insidetheenvironmentagency.co.uk shows UK Environment Agency second largest environmental agency in the world. What do they all do I wonder? Doesn’t seem to be anything to do with stopping flooding. Perhaps its driving around in fancy company cars
Posted in DEFRA, EA, Politics
Tagged EA, environment agency, insidetheenvironmentagency
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Stop The Floods Dredge The Somerset Levels – Jan 2014
Stop The Floods Dredge The Somerset Levels is a facebook page which does what it says on the tin. More tails of EA/DEFRA inertia and incompetence. There is a link to an epetition which I’ve reproduced here. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45055
Murray Salby Showed CO2 Follows Temperature Now You Can Too
In 2011 Professor Murray Salby showed CO2 follows temperature and not as is usually claimed rising CO2 causing rising temperatures. However he did not show his method or reveal his data sources. In this post I reproduce some of his … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coastal Squeeze, DEFRA, EA, Sea Level, SMP, Temperature
Tagged climate change, CO2, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, global temperature rise, global warming, green house gas, ipcc, managed realignment, managed retreat, met office, sea level rise, uk weather may 2012
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Environment Agency And Me – Jan 2014
I was largely unaware of Environment Agency till 2009, then they tried to knock a hole in sea wall about 1/2 mile from my house. I live in Kirby-le-Soken in Essex near the section of sea wall labelled B4a in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, DEFRA, Devereux Farm, EA, Kirby-le-Soken, Local, NE, Salt Marsh Erosion, Sea Level, SMP, Temperature
Tagged climate change, coastal squeeze, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, global warming, kirby-le-soken, managed realignment, managed retreat, natural england, sea defences, sea level rise, smp, tdc, tendring district council
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Reason 2 EA’s Policy of Saltmash Habitat Creation Is Fatally Flawed – Jan 2014
DEFRA have targeted EA with recreating saltmarsh by flooding farmland. Here is reason #2 why this policy is fatally flawed. There is mud in the sea around East Anglia, that’s why the sea is murky unlike in Cornwall or Mediterranean. … Continue reading
Reason 1 EA’s Policy of Saltmash Habitat Creation Is Fatally Flawed – Jan 2014
DEFRA have targeted EA with recreating saltmarsh by flooding farmland. Here is reason #1 why this policy is fatally flawed. DEFRA EA and NE claim rising sea levels are killing saltmarsh. DEFRA EA and NE claim the rate of sea … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, DEFRA, EA, Salt Marsh Erosion, Sea Level, SMP
Tagged coastal squeeze, DEFRA, EA, environment agency, habitat, managed realignment, managed retreat, saltmarsh
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Clacton And Holland Beaches – May 2013
Following Clacton and Holland Beach Hut Association meeting on 4 May 2013 Trevor Bright sent some questions to June Clare of TDC. Here are the questions and answers. But first a note about the meeting. Douglas Carswell (local mp) Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Beaches, Breakwaters, Climate Change, DEFRA, EA, Groynes, SMP
Tagged breakwaters, clacton beach, DEFRA, environment agency, groynes, holland haven beach, holland-on-sea beach, holland-on-sea sea wall, managed realignment, sea wall between frinton and holland, tendring district council
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Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward
On 1 April 2004 Sarah Nason, sometime head of flood management at DEFRA, issued a letter and paper with the title Maintenance of Uneconomic Sea Flood Defences: A Way Forward. Basically the way forward was not to maintain the flood … Continue reading
Posted in DEFRA, EA, SMP
Tagged DEFRA, EA, environment agency, Essex, managed realignment, managed retreat, Sea Flood Defences, Tendring, tendring district council, uneconomic sea defences
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