Petition Tag - ecology

Residents of Argyll know that we are very lucky to live in an area of great visual amenity and ecological importance. This is also our main economic asset, as it is the reason people visit our area and tourism is our most important industry.

Argyll & Bute Council has obliged itself to recognise this and in terms of its own planning policy ENV 10 states that development in, or adjacent to, a designated "Area of Panoramic Quality" will be resisted where "its scale, location or design will have a significant adverse impact on the character of the landscape unless it is demonstrated that any significant adverse effects on the quality for which the area has been designated are clearly outweighed by social and economic benefits of National or regional importance;"

Despite this the Council has granted permission for speculative housing development in parts of these designated areas, most recently on the Kames Peninsula, where two large houses have been allowed on a conspicuous and ecologically-sensitive site between a major tourist route and the sea, in breach of the above policy.

Once the quality of the landscape is destroyed by development it is lost forever. For the sake of the environment and present and future generations we must call on Argyll & Bute Council to halt this destruction.

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Global Warming describes is current trend in average temperatures around the world increasing as a result of human activity. Sea ice is retreating, glaciers are melting, species are migrating or disappearing and spring temperatures are arriving earlier each year.

The glass on a greenhouse allows one type of radiation in, but reduces the amount another type can escape; causing the interior of the greenhouse to remain warm. This is what we are experiencing on our planet - gases such as carbon dioxide and methane act as the glass; allowing solar radiation in, but preventing heat from escaping.

Are human activities are linked to global warming? Yes, just about everything connected with modern society is a contributor. The cars we drive spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as does coal powered electricity generation, production processes for many of our goods. Even the millions of livestock we keep for food play their part by producing methane. It is the carbon dioxide concentration that is increasing, due to the burning of fossil fuels (as well as from some rainforest burning).

This is the man-made portion of the greenhouse effect, and it is believed by many scientists to be responsible for the global warming of the last 150 years. Also, the concentration of methane, although small, has also increased in recent decades. The reasons for this increase, though, are uncertain.

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The Japanese government is launching a strong disaster response, but in every emergency there are vulnerable groups who have trouble accessing aid.

Many Non for profit organization is assessing the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and would work with government authorities and other organizations. To respond effectively, they need your help.

Please make a donation to help these organization serve families affected by this disaster. Donate to help Pacific earthquake and tsunami victims.

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A plan is proposed by BSF and Hackney Council to demolish Horizon School and replace it with a significantly enlarged school on the existing site. The proposals are at the Planning stage with Hackney Council.

It will mean:
•significant reduction of children's' outdoor play area
•destruction of thirty mature trees, currently covered by a tree preservation order
•a new access road running through the playground, which will exit onto Prince George Road
•a new drop-off point for children and deliveries on Prince George Road
•a significant increase in traffic, resulting in congestion and noise
•loss of parking spaces.

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Green Tip:

-Reuse water bottles and avoid buying bottled water. In fact, try to reuse everything at least once, especially plastics.

- Using reusable bottles for my water and other drinks. By using just one reusable bottle, I will keep 167 single-use plastic bottles from entering the environment.

- Using cloth bags for groceries and other purchases. For each reusable bag I use, I will save approximately 400 plastics from being used.

- Recycling the plastic bags and bottles I already have. For every thirteen plastic bags I don't use, I will save enough petroleum to drive a car one mile.

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The government is about to import some nuclear, these nuclear had not been tested by the countries from where it is been imported, The nuclear could be dangerous if it been brought untested. the Place where it is been put up, has also not been conducted environmental impact assessment.

Our only request is to conduct the proper assessment as to loss of the ecology and environment. if there is any damage it could not be able to measure the consequences. This raises concerns about the safety of people around the plant.

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Campaign to stop Bolton Council cutting down 33 lime trees which form a beautiful green avenue between Queens Park and Heaton Cemetery, Bolton.

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Every year, 12 August is marked as an international Caspian Sea Day, the day of coming into effect of the Framework Convention on the Caspian Sea Maritime Environment Protection (the Teheran Convention) which regrettably remains a declaratory document.

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4 Dams
16 Weirs
21 Kms Mammoth Tunnel
Over 200 Acres of Concrete Structure….are set to cut the throat of Western Ghats.
Over 18 villages will be submerged; over 800 hectares of forest will be destroyed

Destruction of the Western Ghats will not only cause decimation of biodiversity but also accelerate the impact of global warming.

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The mission of the Earth Charter Initiative is to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

http://www.earthcharterinaction.org

Preamble
We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.

Principles

I. RESPECT AND CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF LIFE
1. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity.
2. Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion, and love.
3. Build democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful.
4. Secure Earth's bounty and beauty for present and future generations.

II. ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
5. Protect and restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.
6. Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.
7. Adopt patterns of production, consumption, and reproduction that safeguard Earth's regenerative capacities, human rights, and community well-being.
8. Advance the study of ecological sustainability and promote the open exchange and wide application of the knowledge acquired.

III. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, and environmental imperative.
10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.
11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care, and economic opportunity.
12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health, and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.

IV. DEMOCRACY, NONVIOLENCE, AND PEACE
13. Strengthen democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability in governance, inclusive participation in decision making, and access to justice.
14. Integrate into formal education and life-long learning the knowledge, values, and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.
15. Treat all living beings with respect and consideration.
16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence, and peace.

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高鐵香港段是曾蔭權十大基建之一，公眾諮詢未有定論之際，就決定2009年動工，不但草率，更盡顯霸道作風。此鐵路由落馬洲經米埔、新田、牛潭尾、大江埔、石崗、八鄉，穿過大欖郊野公園、林村郊野公園、大帽山郊野公園、城門郊野公園，再經石蔭、金山郊野公園、蘇屋、大角咀、旺角到西九龍總站，將旅客由邊境帶去西九。耗資395億，搗山破石，截流毀田，對全港市民有損無益，我們絕不能讓工程拍板過關，理由如下：

一. 高鐵香港段並無必要興建：如此短距運輸(26公里)根本無須建高速鐵路(時速200公里)。政府和地鐵公司都強調這條鐵路可以節省交通時間，「市民每年節省4,000萬小時的交通時間」，其實是誤導，因為那是指中國大陸的高速鐵路部份。

二. 近年大量基建工程草率上馬，名義上是用公帑製造就業，但完全沒有證明所花鉅款會去到需要合理收入的基層市民手中——聘用顧問公司及重重外判之下，最後工人得到的根本就是被壓到最低的工資。

三. 近年草率上馬的很多工程，在香港如此細小空間交叉出現，可見就每個工程通過的環境影響評估(EIA)其實是全無意義的，是完全不反映其共同製造的效應的。例如在九龍區就會在2009-2016年間有六個大型工程同時進行，對地對人造成的干擾、困擾，誰來計算﹗而此等運輸基建是一方面鐵路與公路路線重覆，使用率偏低，另方面，鐵路本身亦是互相重覆，如這條高鐵香港段的好一段，便與已拍板的北環線重疊。

四. 此工程是引進其他新界工程的前奏，包藏將新界鄉郊開發得面目全非之禍心，是令郊野公園、生態敏感地帶成為名存實亡的重要分水嶺。新界郊野是香港要有一口新鮮空氣、一掬凈水，保留僅餘的野生動物及山林景色的最後堡壘。進一步開發新界事關全港市民，不能由政府、發展商，結合一小撮「專業人士」揑造的歪理去將新界變成「副都市」(例如某專業聯盟就將新界比喻為「必須要100%開發的第三世界」)。另一方面，政府從不回應長期以來民間要求修復新界被破壞的土地、支援有機農業、嚴懲亂倒亂伐亂燒的行徑，相反地，還以「已被破壞」為藉口去在各處策動工程——這高鐵香港段就是一例。此舉根本就是鼓勵人去違法破壞，等待收地。

五. 此項工程規模龐大，影響全香港市民的生活質素，但在立法會上，對這方面全無討論，財務委員會就已於2008年7月8日批准其設計及地盤勘察的撥款近28億。在所謂公眾諮詢過程中，則只在極少地點張貼通告。而一直以來，有關當局根本沒有向公眾提供合格的生態資料，讓全民質詢、分析和判斷工程後果之嚴重性。例如，地下鐵路在施工階段，會如何影響地下水位？會否污染地下水源？對多個郊野公園的植被和生物會帶來甚麼影響？對米埔及后海灣濕地又有何影響？未來鐵路及通風樓在運作時，對這些生態敏感地區的影響又如何？

六. 即使已公佈的資訊，也不儘不實，完全隱瞞會引致的環境危機。以下是一些例子：

(a) 將EIA包裝為科學、客觀、獨立，實際上香港的EIA是項目倡議者委託而做，為工程能輕易上馬服務的。

(b) EIA條例下的「工程項目簡介」以落馬洲支線為先例，誤導市民這只是又一個「無害」的地下鐵路工程而已，事實上，落馬洲支線的環境影響——尤其是長遠影響——公眾根本無從得知，也無法跟進。

(c) 將一些牽涉甚廣的工程部份輕輕帶過，例如單說要建一些通風樓，殊不知建樓就要建路；而單說鑽挖隧道，又不提挖掘出來的以百噸計的石將丟往何處？

(d) 強調鐵路作為集體運輸工具，比其他路面交通工具更環保——事實上，建了鐵路，是否就廢棄本來的公路？當然不是，所以，多建只是增加污染，加速地球暖化吧。

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The environmental movement and Ecological Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC), «Alive Utrish», Greenpeace of Russia, WWF of Russia and the International Socio-Ecological Union collect electronic signatures under the open Internet reference to the President of Russia, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the heads of Administration of Krasnodar Territory and the cities of Anapa, Novorossiysk and Gelendzhik about taking effective measures on preservation of the unique natural complexes of subtropical Mediterranean-type forests, located at the Black Sea coast of Russia, including the prohibition of any construction in the territory of these natural systems and the earliest performance of the order of the Government of the Russian Federation № 725-r about the creation of the reserve «Utrish».

Utrish is:

- the only typical Eastern Mediterranean landscape at the Black sea cost, which preserved well,

- the habitat of more than 60 species of plants and animals listed in the Red Book of Russia, for many of which it is the only habitat in the territory of our country,

- the seat of growth of relic trees aged up to 600 years,

- the last well-preserved, thanks to its remoteness from major settlements and highways, corner of nature at the Russian Black Sea coast in the extent about 12 km.

In December 2008, in violation of Russian legislation, the construction of a road through the reserve to the Black Sea coast began, destroying on the way the relic juniper, pistachio and other trees. The part of the coast is leased and it is planned to start construction on it. It will destroy the eco-system of Big Utrish and will make impossible the performance of the governmental order of the Russian Federation about creating a reserve in this territory.

Only owing to efforts of ecologists who have organized in Utrish a camp of public resistance and have blocked the way for the machines, the construction of the road has been stopped. However Utrish is still in danger and the constructors can return at any moment. Your voice can help to save its nature.

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Last year Belgrade started with unique ecological project: “Save Christmas trees”. Namely, we recognize terrible fact: millions of Christmas trees are being killed every year, in the name of Christmas. For example just in our capitol Belgrade last year we devastated one half of million Christmas trees. Unbelievable! In the name of Jesus, we are killing the planet !

We started to think how to solve this problem and we (NGO Return beauty to the rivers) started with realization of a marvelous idea (originally made by Vesna De Vinca).

Our idea is to teach kids how to educate their parents to buy Christmas tress with root, how to give water and nourish them during Christmas days, and after Christmas holidays are over, how to plant them together, making a new park. So instead of tree cemeteries, we will have in the cities wonderful new parks, and children playgrounds.

But above all we are teaching children how to start a new year, with a wonderful new energy by planting every year a new Christmas tree, and also celebrate life together!

That’s why when we finished planting, we organized a performance: a small concert of children quire, special children karate exercise, a famous singers... Then we invited everybody to send wonderful emotion to the planet for one minute! And most important for the beginning, everything was covered by every TV station, and newspapers in Serbia. We had enormous, unexpected media coverage.

NGO Return beauty to the rivers, Belgrade, Serbia; Media Education Centre (International Organization), Media Laboratory (Belgrade, Serbia) with EKO Portal Stari Grad; International Youth Media Summit, Centre International du Film pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse and many other organizations like to invite all of you to support our movement and to help us to safe us much is possible Christmas Trees. And not just Christmas trees! We have to safe every tree in the Planet.

SAVE THE PLANET - PLANT A TREE

More about our other activities you can find at our web sites and portals:

www.roamingreporters.net/BelgradeCalling

And we will have leave streaming in real time from SAVE THE PLANET - PLANT A TREE
CHRISTMAS TREES performance:

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The NSW State Government announced in November 2006 the controversial proposal to build a massive 450GL dam (approx. the size of Sydney Harbour!) on the Williams River in the Dungog Shire about 1 1/2 hours north of Newcastle.

The announcement was made with absolutely no consultation with land holders in the proposed inundated area, water users down the length of the Williams River, Dungog Shire Council, the people of the Dungog and surrounding areas, recreational users of the river and the magnificent valley.

The dam, if constructed, would inundate over 2000 hectares of prime productive farmland, and displace 90 farming families. It would destroy the Williams River ecosystem which includes many platypus, mussels, freshwater crayfish, bass, long-necked turtles, water dragons, two hectares of magnificent river oaks and not to forget the ancient watergum (Tristaniopsis laurina) at Precipice Bend. The destruction of river ecosystems by dams is well documented by the thousands of publications available in the global literature that report the adverse effects of dams on river and riparian ecosystems.

The NSW State Government and its water instrumentality, Hunter Water Corporation, are railroading through this proposal. There is evidence to suggest the proposal came about for political reasons and was a knee jerk response to the extended drought recently affecting much of NSW. There is a glaring lack of interest, research or recognition of alternative methods of water harvesting which would be more economic, safer, sustainable, and less environmentally and socially damaging in the longer term. Not one of the water planning documents released by HWC prior to November 2006 state that the Tillegra Dam option is desirable.

This is a water grab by the State Government of massive proportions and it will be end-users (ordinary Hunter Region water rate payers) who will be paying huge dividends to State Government coffers.

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The Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming is a farmers and citizens' movement campaigning to unleash the power of agricultural soils to capture and hold CO2 and hold the line while other emittance reduction technologies come on line.

FACTS:

1. If we stopped emitting CO2 today there is still enough in the atmosphere (the "Legacy Load") to disrupt weather patterns for many years to come, up to 1,000 years. (NASA, Britain's Chief Scientist, Australian Greenshouse Office.)

2. The only way to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere is photosyntheisis - not nuclear, clean coal, solar, wind, etc

3. It would take 7 planets covered with forests to soak up the CO2 Legacy Load.

4. Deep-rooted native perennial pastures and pasture-cropping can sequester more carbon per acre than an acre of forest.

5. Farmers manage 65% of the terrestrisal surface of the Earth.

6. A 1% increase in soil carbon in 30cm of topsoil soil can translate into
42 tonnes of soil carbon which equates to 154 tonnes of CO2.

7. Australia has 450m hectares of farming land.

8. Mankind emits 8GT CO2-e each year.

9. It would require Australian farmers to achieve a 1% increase in soil carbon on only a fraction of our soils to sequester the entire world's emissions per year.

10. Soils have a specific role to play. They can start acting immediately to soak up CO2, but they saturate with carbon in 20-25 years. IPCC agricultural economist Bruce McCarl of Texas AM University says soil sequestration can start immediately while other technologies take 10+ years in preparation. The world's leading soil carbon authority, Prof. R. Lal, says soils provide the worid with a bridge to the future when alternative technologies can take over.

The Stern Report gave us 10 years to make serious inroads into the Legacy Load of CO2. Only agricultural soils have the capacity, the economy, and the immediate availability to do the job and protect the future from cataclysm.

What will it take to get farmers to change their land management to stop emitting CO2, CH4 and N2O and start sequestering it in their soils? CARBON CREDITS.

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The garbage transfer station is slated for the site of the now dismantled Southwest Brooklyn Municipal Incinerator, which burned garbage from all over the City without a permit for thirty years, poisoning our health with dioxins, lead, mercury, cadmium and other toxins, and polluting Gravesend Bay. The community suffered greatly from that incinerator; many residents developed cancers, lung ailments, and compromised immune-related diseases that were linked directly to the burning of that garbage. In the 1990s, the community mobilized against the incinerator, filed successful lawsuits and shut it down for good. Today on that very same site (Shore Parkway & Bay 41st Street, off of 26th Avenue), the City wants to build a major Garbage Transfer Station that will process up to 4,290 tons of noxious garbage each day.

The proposed garbage transfer station will require repeated dredgings of Gravesend Bay. This will churn up the toxic pollutants from the incinerator ash that had settled on the Bay bottom and are now covered by mud.

Because of the shortcomings (or intentional negligence) of the NYC Department of Sanitation’s Environmental Impact Study, environmental groups working with State Assembly Representative William Colton were forced to commission their own study of the metals on the Bay’s bottom. Dr. Peddrick Weis of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, working in conjunction with Rutgers University, analyzed the silt samples. He reports that he found high levels of mercury and lead, prompting the NY Daily News to term the Bay a “soup of toxins.” The study didn’t even test for other contaminants like PCBs and PAHs, nor did the researchers dig further into the ground where we expect to find much higher levels of toxins.

Why didn’t the authorities do their own studies? Why didn’t their Environmental Impact Statement address these extreme dangers? We call upon the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation to reject NYC’s application to use this site for a garbage transfer station as the proper studies for heavy metals and organic content such as PAHs and PCBs have not been done.

When the contaminants are exposed, they will poison fish. Fish move around. Even fish caught miles off shore may be full of toxins. When we eat these fish, the poisons enter our bodies. The mostly poor folks who fish every day in Coney Island and along the shore of Gravesend Bay to put food on their families’ tables will be poisoned.

The newly approved Solid Waste Management Plan hopes to reduce total truck mileage in the City overall, but it does so at the expense of concentrating hundreds and hundreds of trucks every day in residential neighborhoods. In Bensonhurst, this means that additional hundreds of garbage trucks will come barreling down Cropsey Avenue and already-gridlocked Bay Parkway and Shore Parkway every day. Not only will this result in even greater traffic congestion and accidents, but the fumes from the vast increase in dirty diesel-burning tugboats and trucks will jeopardize our health, leading to higher rates of asthma and other diseases. Any adequate long-term solid waste program must include a plan for a more environmentally friendly fleet of both municipally owned and private sanitation vehicles.

It is also important to recognize that:

● There is a boat marina next to the site that will likely be destroyed by the Garbage Transfer Station.

● There is a school for developmentally disabled children and a children’s amusement park literally right next to the site, and a junior high school nearby.

● There are 5 senior facilities within blocks of the proposed Garbage Transfer Station. Children and seniors in particular are most seriously threatened by the trucks, diesel particulates, and massive amounts of pesticides that will be applied in order to control the expected increase in rats, mosquitoes and other vermin.

● Dreier Offerman Park, the community’s main athletic/recreational facility, used by hundreds of young people and other community residents, and by St. Francis College, is located at the Gravesend Bay shoreline.

● All year long, many people make use of the shorefront. Thousands of people bicycle, run, picnic and stroll along the Bay. The Garbage Transfer Station would have a negative impact on their health and their ability to enjoy the waterfront.

Gravesend Bay is also nesting grounds for bird populations and foraging grounds for harbor seals, among other wildlife. The underwater site has been relatively undisturbed for over a decade, so natural sea-life populations have been able to flourish, making its one of the city’s most significant environmental habitats and an Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) for numerous species. The Sanitation Dept. has, by its own admission, confessed that it will be unable to contain the toxic silt when dredging occurs, because of the swift currents. These factors present a confluence of situations that make this case unique and make it imperative that the garbage transfer station not be sited at this location.

Environmental justice and equity is long due for working class communities like Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Coney Island. As a result of decades of effort by environmental groups and community residents, the City has spent millions of dollars to clean and restore the waterfront, including Coney Island Creek; the water and air are finally becoming cleaner. Harbor seals, peregrine falcons and a wide variety of marine life and birds have been spotted in Gravesend Bay. However, the proposed dredging and opening of this Garbage Transfer Station threaten to squander those environmental efforts, endanger the wildlife in the Bay and once again dump on our community a noxious nightmare of odors, vermin, pesticides, pollution and noise. We are acting now to protect and guarantee our own health and that of our children, and ensure the environmental quality long denied to our community.

We do not oppose all marine garbage transfer stations. Years ago, the City shipped out its garbage in that way before resorting to trucks. (There remain many problems associated with that method that have not been addressed, such as the fact that tugs using high sulfur fuel—the filthiest around—will pollute the waters and air). We are simply arguing that THIS PARTICULAR SITE is not appropriate.

There are other possible sites in non-residential areas—but the Department of Sanitation refused to consider them. Unfortunately, some environmentalists fell for the trap in which the City pits one neighborhood against another around the issue of who gets the transfer stations, when we all should be opposing their placement in ANY residential neighborhood.

The final approval of the siting of the Southwest Brooklyn marine transfer station is now before the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. You helped clean up the Bay, now we’re asking that you help preserve it from the toxic effects that would result from dredging. We are asking you to do the following:

1) write to the New York DEC requesting that it hold public hearings in the neighborhood adjacent to the proposed site at a date and time convenient for residents;

2) sign onto this public letter inviting Environmental and Social Justice Groups to join in preventing the Southwest Brooklyn Garbage Transfer Station from opening;

3) participate in upcoming mass public meetings, such as the one in Bensonhurst on Thursday, January 25 at 7:30 pm, Shore Parkway Jewish Center, 8885 26th Avenue, between Cropsey and Harway Avenues, and

4) take action to make sure that the City does not place transfer stations in any residential area, near homes, schools and parks.

Initiated by,

- Mitchel Cohen, Coordinator, No Spray Coalition (against the indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides), www.nospray.org
- Vicki Grubman, Wake Up and Smell the Garbage (local Bensonhurst group)
- Ludger K. Balan, Executive Director, Environmental Program, The Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy
- William Colton, Representative to the NY State Assembly (47 A.D.), Chair, Solid Waste SubCommittee
- Will Hershkowitz, Citizen, Brooklyn NY
- Lena Budanitsky, Wake Up and Smell the Garbage
- Vladimir Rubashkin, Wake Up and Smell the Garbage
- Mel Wolfson, Wake Up and Smell the Garbage
- David B. Mantell, Wake Up and Smell the Garbage; student member, Brooklyn College NYPIRG* (New York Public Interest Research Group)
- Mark Treyger, Jewish Community Centre of Bensonhurst*, President of the United Progressive Democratic Club, Brooklyn NY
- William Crain, Ph.D., Co-founder, Citizens for a Green Riverside Park; Professor of Psychology, The City College of New York
- Julian Melendez, President, The Environmental Club*, Kingsborough Community College
- Cathryn Swan, Recycle This!*
- Howard Brandstein, Exec. Director, Sixth Street Community Center, SOS Food
- Robb Ross, Brooklyn Greens / Green Party
- Linda Zises, Brooklyn Greens / Green Party
- Robert Gold, Brooklyn Greens / Green Party
- Carl Lawrence, Architectural Designer, Producer of GreenVision TV show
(BCAT)

* Asterisked organizations for identification only

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The Mammoth Cave Region and Barren River are being impacted by intrusive industry. This area is relatively unpolluted and the law enforcement against pollution lax. There are some people who are taking advantage of the local people by moving into the Warren County to spread destruction and pollution.

The Warren County Judge Executive Buchannon and Mayor Sandy Jones are responsible for the development and destruction of the karst region. The Judge and Mayor are backing development plans that are inconsiderate of the fragile ecology of the region. The Mayor is supporting an "enterprise zone" to develop a tourist attraction in the Barren River wetlands. The Judge Executive is trying to build an "Industrial Park" (Transmodal Park) and airport in the Mammoth Cave area.

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