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Never Judge a Board by Its Colour Not just surfers * Not just sewage * ThE newsletter Of SAS issue 72 May 2008 NEVER JUDGE A BOARD BY ITS COLOUR SPRING BEACH CLEANING WITH SAS GUERNSEY ELECTIONS LOBBYING BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS - SURFBOARD ART RETURNS SUMMER OF TOURS - GRASSROOTS AND BAREFEET WHo’s wHO AT SAS? HOW TO FIND US... n Campaign Director (full time) Richard Hardy ([email protected]) n Campaign Assistant (full time) Andy Cummins ([email protected]) editorial n Office & Merchandise Manager (full time) Wendy Nicolson ([email protected]) Our campaign programme for 2008 has scored a nice little get out and tell you more! Check out the Grassroots (Page 8) n Finance Manager (part time) Vincent McDermott ([email protected]) n Fundraiser (part time) Siobhan Keyes ([email protected]) win over some Russian Oil magnates plans to use the Firth and Barefoot (Page 9) tours we’ve organised for either side of n Merchandise Assistant (part time) Heidi Peasley ([email protected]) of Forth for potentially hazardous ship-to-ship oil transfers. the summer. We especially need volunteers for beach cleaning n Everyone can be contacted on 01872 553 001 You might remember in the last Pipeline we highlighted with us during the Barefoot tour! plans by Government to regulate this industry, but the real sticking point for us was Forth Ports ‘judge and jury’ role, Also do please keep your membership up to date. It’s WHO DOES WHAT FOR PIPELINE which would have allowed them to act as both promoter and invaluable in helping us plan our campaign budgets for the n Editor: Richard Hardy n Surfers Against Sewage, regulator for the scheme. We leapt into action to safeguard year. There’s so much we want to achieve and whilst we often Wheal Kitty Workshops, St. Agnes, Cornwall TR5 0RD recreational waters from this scheme and produced a campaign on nothing but fresh air we could do even more n Main Office:01872 553 001 n Campaign Office:01872 555 950 n Merchandise: 01872 555 955 n Sponsorship: 01872 555 945 campaign film ‘Forth Wars’ (a bit of a Star Wars spoof!) with a little bit extra in the budget. If you really want to pull n Fax: 01872 552 615 which we sent to key stakeholders including some of Forth out the stops with this one then go check out the Recruit A n Internet: www.sas.org.uk n Email: [email protected] Ports’ major shareholders, calling on them to reject the bid. Member comp on page 21 to see what great prize is on offer n Graphic Design: Miles Johnson [email protected] Forth Ports have now rejected it and we’re stoked at the role for the person who recruits the most new members this year. n Photographers: Andy Cummins, Richard Hardy, Colin Hattersley and Wendy Nicolson we played in a great coalition effort to protect the Forth from All help on this would be much appreciated! n Front cover image: Nathan Hedge getting air on a such a move. So a big thanks to everyone who took part in ‘greener board’ at the 2007 Boardmasters event. the actions organised in this period. Yours in clean water, n Printing: Brewers of Helston 01326 558000 Printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper We’ve lots more campaigns like this going on throughout the using vegetable based inks year and we’ve a couple of roadshows planned where we can Rich Hardy And ThE Winner Of ThE Best Environmental Campaign Award Goes TO... That’s right folks, SAS! We and Jonathon Shaw, Minister our weight and these awards stoke our won the first ever Best for Marine, Landscape and enthusiasm if we ever feel that Goliath is Environmental Campaign, as Rural Affairs amongst others. getting us on the ropes. part of the Coast Awards 2007 2007 was a rewarding year presented by Coast magazine. indeed for SAS. This Best Environmental SAS WEBSITE SAS’s anti-marine litter campaigns Campaign Award completed a hat trick of Remember to check out all our latest campaign (including Return To Offender and No Butts high profile prestigious awards for 2007. news on our website (updated daily). on The Beach) beat off tough competition We also won a British Environmental www.sas.org.uk from the Marine Conservation Society Media Award for our website and a Surfers Also your password to access the and their Beachwatch campaign and Path Global Green Wave Award for our MEMBERS AREA is CARBON The National Trust’s Neptune Coastline campaigning. campaign. These campaigns were short It’s fantastic for our hard work to be listed by Coast readers and then a panel recognized and rewarded, especially of judges made the final decision. Judges when considering the small size of the included Coast presenter Nicholas Crane SAS Team. We definitely punch above PIPELINE.ISSUE.72.PAGES.02/03 SAS lobby Guernsey Government leaders CAMPAIGN REPORT BAThING wATER DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION fAILURE After a decade of campaigning we welcomed the EU’s revision of the Bathing Water Directive (BWD) in 2006 and are looking forward to a strengthened Directive that will better protect the health ELECTION of recreational water users in the UK. CANDIDATES However the Directive should have been transposed into Regulations for England, QUESTIONED OVER Scotland and Wales by 24th March 2008. This deadline has been missed and SEwAGE BY SAS. DEFRA are putting it down to receiving an SAS has begun its election campaigning for SAS are keen to see Guernsey invest in primarily to developing nations, many of unexpectedly large number of responses improved sewage treatment in Guernsey upgrading its sewage treatment process to which have no sewage disposal facilities to their consultation (this might well We take our Bathing by asking all prospective candidates to a tertiary level (full). This would bring it in whatsoever. Such nations have different have been you as we emailed out to our Water campaigning answer a ‘sewage questionnaire’. The to line with many of the sewage treatment priorities than those in the West, needing SASZINE group with an action request!). to Parliament resulting answers will be compiled and works currently operating in seaside to direct capital towards many things Either way it’s disappointing that we as a shown online at www.sas.org.uk in the resorts across the UK and Europe. taken for granted in much of Europe. nation have been unable to implement on n Aim above meeting the minimum n Maintain the programme of at least 20 run up to polling day. Natural marine treatment is often Scientist’s have long shared the view time and we may yet face action from the requirements of the Directive by targeting water quality samples per bathing water Sewage has moved up the political used to describe how Guernsey’s sewage that for developed countries ‘natural EU for failure to do this. the new ‘good’ water quality standard per season. agenda in Guernsey after extensive is treated. In effect, this means that all marine treatment’ is NOT an acceptable instead of the ‘sufficient’ standard for n Use notices advising against bathing campaigning by SAS over the past few sewage is discharged raw to sea, but with long-term practice. Whilst we were pretty stoked with the which all UK designated bathing waters when appropriate but DO NOT issue years. After narrowly missing out on some screening to take out the gross Without a commitment to a full sewage outcome of the EU BWD (we are still pressing should meet by 2015. bathing prohibitions. improved sewage treatment at a Guernsey solids and sewage related debris. As treatment policy, Guernsey effectively the case though for ‘recreational water n Focus on providing real time, predictive n Encourage public participation in States vote last October, SAS now believe there is NO treatment there is NO effect remains a developing nation when it user’ recognition) the past few months public information to recreational water defining what is a bathing water and how a shake up of Government could deliver on reducing the viral or bacterial loading comes to sewage disposal. This election have provided us with an opportunity to user, so they can make more informed they are designated. swift decisions on the issue, following of the effluent. This is why water quality could be pivotal in seeing a change get the best out of the all the Directive choices as to when and where they use years of procrastination. can be poor at times and could lead to in Government attitude and we are offers in the implementation process. the water for recreation. As the Directive as not been implemented With over 4000 islanders already having public health risks. To date, Guernsey’s confident it will be a topic of interest n Re-examine the current protocol that on time, we’re not yet in a position to relay signed a petition calling for full sewage leaders have become far too comfortable for prospective candidates to engage We therefore wrote to all water divisions exists on how recreational water users the outcome to you, but we should have treatment we believe this is an important with the term ‘natural marine treatment’. with and for those candidates who are across UK government departments with are informed of pollution events and the some news in time for the next Pipeline, election issue and one that islanders will Yet this term has often been used successful, to then deliver on. Polling the following asks: advice issued to them. so fingers crossed. want to hear candidates views on. out of context in the past as it relates Day is 23rd April.
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