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Source 18.Indd ISSUE SEVENTEENEIGHTEEN AUTUMN SUMMER 2008 2008 PUBLISHED BY THE MERSEY BASIN CAMPAIGN WWW.MERSEYBASIN.ORG.UK SPECIAL ISSUE REGIONAL PARKS Sponsored by Regional Parks Xchange Pages 11–27 PARK LIFE Why ‘regional parks’ matter. ART IN HIGH PLACES Where art meets the environment. THE GREEN POUND Uncovering the economy’s green roots. SourceNW is the magazine of the Mersey Basin Campaign. The campaign works towards better water quality and sustainable waterside regeneration for the rivers and waterways of England’s Northwest. www.merseybasin.org.uk Cover Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley’s Panopticon, photographed by Ian Lawson. Story on page 16. Welcome to our special issue on regional parks. Never heard of them? CONTENTS Few people Features Regulars Money to burn? have. But regional parks are a Big Idea for the environment and REGIONAL PARKS FOCUS regeneration in the Northwest. We have more of them than any 12 PARK LIFE 11 HOW GREEN IS MY…COLLIERY? Thought not. Businesses across the UK are other region – nine – and there’s at least one in every county from Regional parks – what are they, where An abandoned strip mine in Wigan is becoming the Cheshire to Cumbria. The largest, are they, what do they do and why does it town’s new green heart. matter? Gareth Chadwick fi nds out. wasting £1.3 billion each year on energy use alone. Mersey Waterfront, has a three-year 20 CASE NOTES budget to 2010 of £20 million. Liverpool Sailing Club’s triumphant rise from the ashes. The inspiration comes from the 16 ART IN HIGH PLACES Environment Connect will help you generate cost 21 BUSINESS Often provocative and frequently continent, where regional parks What do the Northwest’s regional parks mean controversial, public art is popping up savings and reduce inefficiencies. were pioneered and where several for business? have become powerful engines of in unexpected places. Louise Tickle regeneration. They are a test bed sees for herself. 26 LOCAL HERO for ways of investing public money Meet Susannah Bleakley, the energy and enthusiasm in environmental protection and 22 THE GREEN POUND behind the Morecambe Bay regional park. Whether you are looking to generate improvement. We think it’s time Should public money be spent improving 27 SHARP END savings through energy efficiency, more people knew about regional the environment? Matthew Sutcliffe on the Liz Newton backs the government’s plans to grant parks, and the issues they raise. quest to prove that the environment is a better public access to the nation’s coast, despite the need to reduce your waste or water Not only is this one of the fi rst sound investment. concerns of landowners. bills, or are looking to benefit from ever ‘special issues’ of Source, This issue of SourceNW is supported by Regional Parks Xchange. To fi nd out more visit www.rpx.co.uk. it’s also the fi rst ever sponsored new environmental technologies – issue. Last year’s reader 4 REGIONAL ROUND UP 8 MY PLACE Environment Connect can get you satisfaction survey revealed very News, sound bites, people, places, facts & Punk journalist John Robb – the man who christened strong support for Source in fi gures from around the Northwest. “Britpop” and the fi rst person to interview Nirvana – on to the support you need. championing environmental issues his passion for the Rochdale Canal. in the Northwest, as well as a willingness for advertising to help There are hundreds of simple, cost pay for it. Our sponsor for this issue effective ways to cut your bills, boost is Regional Parks Xchange, an ideal partner given our focus. your efficiency and increase profitability. Sponsorship won’t change the stories Source covers or the way it covers them, but it will help us to keep supplying the magazine to you 16 16 8 20 :ck^gdcbZci8dccZXi^h[gZZ!XdcÒYZci^Va free of charge. VcYdcanVkV^aVWaZ^ci]ZCdgi]lZhi# Subscriptions: Fouzia Bhatti, 0161 242 8200 Website: www.merseybasin.org.uk Matthew Sutcliffe, editor [email protected] Design: Hemisphere, Manchester [email protected] Contributors: Jo Birtwistle, Edwin Colyer, Kate Fox, Print: Gyroscope, Manchester Mark Hillsdon, Ciara Leeming, John Robb, Louise Tickle SourceNW is published quarterly by the Mersey Basin Campaign. Photography: Rebecca Lupton, John Rowbotham The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Address: Mersey Basin Campaign, Fourways House, publishers. Comments, letters and corrections are welcomed and should be 57 Hilton Street, Manchester M1 2EJ addressed to the editor. SourceNW is printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper using vegetable-based inks. J;B;F>ED; SourceNW is sponsored by Mersey Basin Campaign corporate sponsors include &.*+&&,,... 7YY[ii[Zj^hek]^8ki_d[iiB_da REGIONAL ROUND-UP REGIONAL ROUND-UP carbon emissions and effi ciency strengthening the case for going green, says Where there’s muck… Climate change improvements as businesses adapt the report. to climate change. Environment minister Phil Woolas, who A pioneering £13 million waste recycling plant, the It points to the city’s strong launched the report in Manchester, said: fi rst of its kind in the UK, has been offi cially opened choice universities, successful urban “Climate change is an important issue for us on Merseyside and could open the door to similar regeneration, improving transport all and businesses have a signifi cant role to plants across the country. and infrastructure, positive economic play in the climate change agenda. The plant will process up to 50,000 tonnes of Climate change could cost structure and capacity for innovation “The report emphasises that if non-hazardous waste per year, reducing the amount as key strengths. And it highlights businesses make changes in response sent to landfi ll by over 80 per cent and saving an Manchester £12 billion – or the integrated political leadership to the government’s drive for more estimated £1.5 million annually. provided through the Association of renewable energies and take advantage of But the key innovation lies in what the plant bring opportunities. Greater Manchester Authorities. the opportunities to improve their energy produces. Using household waste as its raw Growing demand for infrastructures they could become more material, it creates a high quality biomass fuel environmentally friendly products competitive, which would benefi t the that can be sold as a sustainable alternative to and the rocketing cost of non- region’s economy.” fossil fuels. How businesses in Manchester and the Northwest renewable energy are also But the report predicts that signifi cant Run by engineering company Orchid respond to climate change will impact the economy new environmental legislation will redraw the Environmental, the plant relies on a patented low by billions of pounds, warns the world’s fi rst Scientists economic landscape over the coming decade. temperature process known as mechanical heat ‘mini-Stern’ report. Companies that are not prepared could lose Manchester is in a “strong position” to turn the issue warning money or even go out of business, it warns. “…an invaluable part of the challenge of climate change into economic opportunities, Politicians have signifi cantly The report calls on businesses, local says the report from consultants Deloitte. But it warns underestimated the scale of authorities and central government to join overall solution – and not just that failure to act could cost the city’s economy as much the climate change challenge, forces and seize the opportunities from as £12 billion over the next 12 years, with the Northwest according to scientists from the climate change. Manchester, it says, can be for Merseyside.” as a whole losing out by a projected £72 billion over the Tyndall Centre in Manchester. In at the “forefront of a positive response to Virtual disaster same period. a strongly worded paper, Dr Kevin climate change and…develop an international treatment. The waste is fi rst shredded before The report – the fi rst in the world to examine the Anderson and Dr Alice Bows say reputation in this area.” being moistened and passed into a large rotating Shocking, isn’t it? This is how Liverpool would look after catastrophic fl oods. impact of climate change on a single city – follows the that this year’s pledge from G8 cylinder, where it is dried, sanitised and broken Artist’s impression of an 85m tall The troubling scenes were created by digital artists at computer game maker groundbreaking report from economist Sir Nicholas Stern countries to cut global emissions down. The organic waste, such as paper, cardboard Ecotricity wind turbine at Playgen. Its Floodsim game challenges players to take control of the crisis when in 2006. Stern infl uentially concluded that the cost to by 50% by 2050, in an effort to Sportcity in East Manchester and vegetable matter, is then turned into fuel, fl oods swamp Britain each year – success is measured by reducing the impact on the global economy of failing to tackle climate change limit global warming to 2°C, could while recyclable materials such as metals, plastics, people and the economy. Scientists predict that the threat of fl ooding will increase would be far greater than the cost of taking early action. lead to “dangerously misguided” glass and stone are also recovered. due to climate change. Environment minister Phil Woolas praised the game: “The The new report, The Economic Impact of Climate policies. They say that focusing Carl Beer, director of Merseyside Waste fl oods of 2007 show just how serious fl ooding can be, and I am glad to see that Change, was commissioned by the city’s economic on long term targets has ignored Disposal Authority, said: “Merseyside produces this project has been developed to enable people to have a greater understanding development agency, Manchester Enterprise.
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