2016-02-03 13:35:35 +0000
To: The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Who profits from disaster in Cumbria?
The A591 between Keswick and Grassmere remains closed after the disastrous flooding, local people are faced with long detours and there is no sign of it opening. However, United Utilities have had access to carry ouit logging operations, which were the cause of the disaster to begin with! We call on the minister for the environment to intervene , stop the logging operations and open the road to local traffic immediately.
Why is this important?
This government have made pledge after pledge , promise after promise to repair the damage from this disaster and to ensure that it never happens again, yet they have kept none of their promises . There is substantial evidence to show that logging has been a major cause of flooding in the region and yet the priority isn't to restore the road for local people but use it to recommence the very activity that caused the problem in the first place. This government has no concern for the environment or local interest but only for profit. It continues to make the same mistakes for its own greed. "The A591 repairs are a blag,it is in working order apart from the GAP which they are not working on,they seem to be concentrating their efforts on forestry operations! Something must be done!!! I saw lots of heavy forestry machinery using the road which is strange as we are being told it is undermined and I saw no evidence of the whole mountain moving!!!" 30 January 2016
