Save Minster Marshes an ecologically important site from development!


Save Minster Marshes an ecologically important site from development!
The Issue
UPDATE: PLEASE READ...
Last year National Grid made £46 billion profit. We demand that Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and the Mission Controller for the programme, Chris Stark, call a pause on National Grid’s SeaLink project to allow time for alternative options for the siting of the southern landfall of the SeaLink in Kent to be researched developed and consulted on fairly. It is not a consultation if the residents of Kent are offered only one choice of site that is the most damaging ecologically simply because it is the cheapest. National Grid can afford to do better. Please sign to demand reconsideration of this environmental catastrophe before offering a full and fair consultation with meaningful alternatives. This is not a green energy project if it trashes the environment and rides rough shod over legally protected sites." - shows what we are demanding. The Decision Makers are Ed Milband - Secretary of State and Chris Stark - Mission controller Net Zero
Please help save Minster marshes from development by The National Grid!
Minster marshes is a critical ecological super highway connecting a site of special scientific interest with the rest of the country. It is home to hundreds of bird species many of which are on the endangered list. The National Grid are proposing to build across this vital landscape devistating the local ecology.
It is an environmental haven where many species have been forced to live due to the excessive building elsewhere in thanet. Environmentalist have recently seen species such as barn owls, partridges, skylarks, gasshopper warbler, garden warbler, curlewo, golden plover ,Lapwings ,Hen harrier, Marsh harrier, Yellow hammer, Sparrow hawk ,Jack snipe , Common snipe and turtle doves
Additionally living there are numerous reptiles and amphibians including grass snakes and sloe worms. Brown hares and water voles also call this space home.
This area acts as a super highway connecting Pegwell Bay Nature Reserve with the rest of the south east and further afield. Not only offering long.term residents a place to live but is vital in aiding migration patterns.
The National grid are proposing to use the site to build a huge converter station over 30 meters high covering several hectares. With its additional infurstructure of roads and pylons it will devastate the local ecology having a knock-on effect thoughtout the south east.
Please help stop this and raise awareness to the devistating impact this build will have. There are other options available to the National grid this isn't the only available site but it is the cheapest. The only cost will be to our wildlife!
For more information or the help fight visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/1363627787556811/?ref=share
Thanks for reading.

16,403
The Issue
UPDATE: PLEASE READ...
Last year National Grid made £46 billion profit. We demand that Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and the Mission Controller for the programme, Chris Stark, call a pause on National Grid’s SeaLink project to allow time for alternative options for the siting of the southern landfall of the SeaLink in Kent to be researched developed and consulted on fairly. It is not a consultation if the residents of Kent are offered only one choice of site that is the most damaging ecologically simply because it is the cheapest. National Grid can afford to do better. Please sign to demand reconsideration of this environmental catastrophe before offering a full and fair consultation with meaningful alternatives. This is not a green energy project if it trashes the environment and rides rough shod over legally protected sites." - shows what we are demanding. The Decision Makers are Ed Milband - Secretary of State and Chris Stark - Mission controller Net Zero
Please help save Minster marshes from development by The National Grid!
Minster marshes is a critical ecological super highway connecting a site of special scientific interest with the rest of the country. It is home to hundreds of bird species many of which are on the endangered list. The National Grid are proposing to build across this vital landscape devistating the local ecology.
It is an environmental haven where many species have been forced to live due to the excessive building elsewhere in thanet. Environmentalist have recently seen species such as barn owls, partridges, skylarks, gasshopper warbler, garden warbler, curlewo, golden plover ,Lapwings ,Hen harrier, Marsh harrier, Yellow hammer, Sparrow hawk ,Jack snipe , Common snipe and turtle doves
Additionally living there are numerous reptiles and amphibians including grass snakes and sloe worms. Brown hares and water voles also call this space home.
This area acts as a super highway connecting Pegwell Bay Nature Reserve with the rest of the south east and further afield. Not only offering long.term residents a place to live but is vital in aiding migration patterns.
The National grid are proposing to use the site to build a huge converter station over 30 meters high covering several hectares. With its additional infurstructure of roads and pylons it will devastate the local ecology having a knock-on effect thoughtout the south east.
Please help stop this and raise awareness to the devistating impact this build will have. There are other options available to the National grid this isn't the only available site but it is the cheapest. The only cost will be to our wildlife!
For more information or the help fight visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/1363627787556811/?ref=share
Thanks for reading.

16,403
Supporter Voices
Petition created on 17 September 2023