PIPELINE 79cs4.indd 1 >>>>>>> issue 79 >>>>>>> spring 2O1O pıpelınenot just surfers // not just sewage // the newsletter of sas www.sas.org.uk SAS VICTORY IN SCOTTISH MaRINE BILL SAS’S 20TH ANNIVERsaRY YEAR AN EXCUSE TO BRING BACK THE SAS BaLL? UTTERLY VITAL: UV CAMPAIGN WIDENS CaMPAIGN FILM NEWS 08/02/2010 20:03 www.sas.org.uk ILLUSTRATION IS VERY SMALL, WILL NOT PRINT WELL IF ENLARGED OR CROPPED WHO’S WHO AT SAS? HOW TO FIND US... n Executive Director (full time) Hugo Tagholm ([email protected]) CONTENTS n Campaign Director (full time) Andy Cummins ([email protected]) n POW Campaign Officer (full time): Dom Ferris ([email protected]) n Office & Merchandise Manager (full time) Wendy Nicolson ([email protected]) EDITORIAL n Finance Officer(part time): Joanna Burn ([email protected]) A big year ahead for SAS ANDY’S REPORT n Fundraiser (full time) Name TBC ([email protected]) PAGE 4 n Admin Assistant (part time): Ceri Crowther ([email protected]) >> I hope the new decade has started n Everyone can be contacted on 01872 553 001 well for you all, and that you managed to 20 SUCCESSFUL YEARS sneak a session or two in the water PAGE 4 WHO DOES WHAT between the snow and bitter weather we experienced over the winter. It was FOR PIPELINE amazing to see so many snow covered CAMPAIGN FILM n n PAGE 6 Editor: Hugo Tagholm Surfers Against Sewage, beaches, which certainly added an extra Wheal Kitty Workshops, St. Agnes, Cornwall TR5 0RD element of challenge to some of the n Main Office:01872 553 001 n Campaign Office:01872 555 950 CLIMATE MARCH n n surfs I had in January. campaign. We are proud that SAS has once Merchandise: 01872 555 955 Sponsorship: 01872 555 945 PAGE 8 n Fax: 01872 552 615 Anyway, enough of the small talk as 2010 again managed to influence big business n Internet: www.sas.org.uk n Email: [email protected] is a massive year for SAS, it being our 20th through its efforts and hopefully we’ll see n Design: Miles Johnson [email protected] anniversary and all – that’s right 20 years tangible progress by one of the world’s UV TURN OFF n Photographers: Charlie Chambers, Richard Stewart, Andy Cummins, Hugo Tagholm, old! Our teenage years are over! We’ll be biggest plastic manufacturers in reducing PAGE 9 Wendy Nicolson, Dom Ferris, Owain Davies, O’Neill Europe and many others. n Front cover image: SAS campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament lobbying for celebrating this in all sorts of ways during the amount of plastic litter ending up in surfers’ inclusion in the Scottish Marine Bill. the year, but importantly, we’ll use the our seas and on our beaches. APPALLING CSO’S n Printing: Martin LLuck k Design & Print 01326 558000 opportunity to further raise the profile of We’ve also been steadily progressing PAGE 10 the campaigns right around the country the Protect Our Waves campaign over cover story! Printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper and create even more momentum to the last few months, and towards the >>> using vegetable based inks protect beaches, oceans, waterways and end of 2009 made some big strides SCOTTISH MARINE BILL waves right across the UK. forward in our calls for PAGE12 ‘…it is shocking This year, the campaign that water more formal protection of has already thrown its companies are surfing areas and wave REGIONAL REPS weight against water still trying to resources, not just for PAGE 14 companies trying to evade wriggle out of surfers but for all water having their regulation of combined sewage users – windsurfers, kite BRING BACK THE BALL sewer overflows. After the discharges surfers, bodyboarders, PAGE 16 impact of SAS’s BBC monitored…” bodysurfers, kayakers; Panorama exposé last year, it is shocking the whole cross-section of SAS MEET A MEMBER that water companies are still trying to membership. We’ll be working hard on PAGE 17 wriggle out of having their sewage this during the course of 2010. discharges monitored. After all, if these Finally, February 26th will see the MEMBERSHIP systems weren’t causing any problems, release of the SAS campaign film, PAGE 18 why would water companies fear which is a beautiful production and regulation? In January, SAS campaigners confronts the campaign issues in a FUNDRAISING were on hand in Cardiff where a number whole new way through some fantastic PAGE20 of water companies were appealing animation. Watch out for local against regulation of almost 4,000 of screenings and for the cover mounted SHOP NEWS these outfalls to question the temerity DVD on The Surfer’s Path magazine. PAGE 22 of their request, which really amounts to We’ll also be giving some copies away a license to pollute at will. to lucky members – check out the 2010 SPONSORS Our Return to Offender campaign has website and SAS Facebook pages for PAGE 23 also struck at the highest level this year, details. with Coca-Cola Europe responding directly Stay stoked and see you out there! to the amount of packaging SAS has been Hugo Tagholm returning to its head office as part of the DIRECTOR 79\\\PIPELINE\\\\\\3 PIPELINE 79cs4.indd 2-3 08/02/2010 20:03 ILLUSTRATION IS VERY SMALL, WILL NOT DONT HAVE BOTTOM STORY PRINT WELL IF ENLARGED OR CROPPED >>>>>>>NEWS NEWS>>>>>>> SUCCESSFUL ... of campaigning but the fight to protect our 2O YEARS coastline continues >>Yes, it’s SAS’s 20th anniversary and this spring along with other projects lamination to produce we have a stack of exciting plans for across the year, so look out for it on the highest performance wetsuit 2010 to celebrate the campaign. As you your travels. with one of the lowest CaMPAIGN will have already noticed, we have We are proud to be further environmental impacts. updated the SAS Eye logo to reflect developing our relationship with Gul Anyway, we’re stoked with just how much the campaign has this year, who are now sponsors of our the new Eye, and with the EDITORIAL progressed over the years and campaign wetsuits, with their new overwhelmingly positive LOCAL MOTION importantly, how it remains at the Recore suit. After 3 years of reaction we’ve had to it so >>I’ve just got out of a meeting at found protecting ‘their’ surf spot. Surfers cutting edge of coastal protection in development, they have just launched far. Thank you for coming Westminster with SAS’s Brighton rep are motivated to protect waves because the UK. We have fond memories of the Recore Eco wetsuit, which is the with us on our campaign Aaron Jennings, his local MP, the we are the first people to feel the impacts each and every incarnation of the Eye first of it kind with true green journey over the years, and Environment Agency and Southern Water. of pollutants or over zealous but it was important for us to move credentials, combining recycled here’s looking forward to the This is just one of the repercussions from development. forward with a fresh brand reflecting polyester, Bamboo and Solvent free next steps over the course of 2010. the Panorama documentary which SAS I wouldn’t describe myself as an overly the campaigns of 2010, whilst also featured in and which continues to bear altruistic person. I work hard to ensure being true to the amazing heritage of fruit for all UK water users, from surfers to SAS gets campaign victories because, the organisation. sailors. Needless to say, the meeting went selfishly, I don’t want to surf in polluted This is already proving popular with well for SAS and there seas. I’ve first hand our members and we have some seems to be a sea change I’ve first hand experience of missing surfs fantastic new merchandise featuring within the other experience of because of contracting an the 2010 Eye, including the missing surfs organisations about what because of illness from the sea, or the quintessential tee and hoody for guys information should be contracting an beach is so polluted and girls. The Eye will also be sneaking made available to water illness from surfing’s strangely no into a collaboration with St Agnes users relating to combined the sea longer appealing. based pioneering eco-brand Finisterre sewer overflow discharges. Aaron was I’ve transformed these negative great in the meeting: confident, experiences into positive inspirations. I passionate and clear with what he wanted recognised that same drive in Aaron and We’d also like to welcome Dom Ferris to the campaign team. A for ‘his’ surf spots. casting my mind back over my many years Surf Science graduate straight out of Newquay, he’s making a Aaron’s an enthusiastic surfer, and one of SAS actions I’ve seen that drive and THANKS TOM & WILL fantastic addition to the organisation already. His first month of the guys who’s regularly in the water in determination in many of our members, >>We’d like to say a huge Thank has seen successful actions in Wales and Scotland so you’re the Brighton and Hove area. He’s not a We all share an affinity with the sea and You to Will&Tom for all their bound to see him out on the road sometime soon. You might campaigner by trade, but he’s bloody a desire to protect it. We are all help on designing our 2010 Eye, also see him out in the lineup as he likes a wave or two.