Further Acronyms to confuse the unwary - The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) formerly the office of the Deputy Prime Minister - are assisted by the Mineral Industry Research Organisation (MIRO) who manage a minerals sector research programme on their behalf, The sustainable Land-Won & Marine Dredged Aggregate Minerals Programme (SAMP). This is funded through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), which contributed £3.87 million between 2204- 2007. MIRO was founded by a group of companies, some well known, such as Tarmac, Rio Tinto Zinc and Shell.
Theme A of this programme is the Impacts of Aggregate Extraction on the Marine Environment. Items of particular interest on this linked page are the seabed studies, which appear to indicate recovery from dredging within four years and the Item about Building GIS and Environmental Data Management capabilities of the Sea Fisheries Committee. This project includes a mention of Geographical Information about the no trawling areas in Filey Bay.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
Marine Spatial Planning - an update
Those Marine information 'groupies' sad enough to click on the Jan 2006 Blog about Marine Spatial planning, will see that the link to information from DEFRA no longer works.
The new link is : http://www.abpmer.net/mspp/index.asp
A final report about Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is now included
The new link is : http://www.abpmer.net/mspp/index.asp
A final report about Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is now included
Proposed Marine Dredging Legislation
Marine Dredging Legislation proposed by the UK Government, will radically alter the way that dredging applications are processed. Read the extensive response by Filey Against Dredging at our site: www.filey.org.uk
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