The BBC’s Tom Edwards reports that Greenwich could soon play host to 55 massive cruise ships a year, pumping out pollution equivalent to almost 700 lorries. Watch it here at https://youtu.be/rsA_OasmbVk With the Viking Star berthed in the background, Laura Eyres, local campaigner for #NoToxicPort in Greenwich, says ‘We just can’t understand why London is allowing big ships to come here and basically pollute with impunity. It just wouldn’t be allowed on the roads.” Fellow campaigner from across the river, engineer Ralph Hardwick, spells out the common sense solution, “We want to see that any ship that comes up the river turns off it’s engines and connects to an onshore power supply.” Yesterday a spot check was conducted by an independent company on the day show pollution levels by the river is “twice the allowed national average”. In the interview, leader of Greenwich Council, Danny Thorpe, says that the council are talking to developers Morgan Stanley, but “not as much as we’d like.” “We really need them to address the concerns that we have and move more quickly.” Meanwhile Morgan Stanley say they are working on fresh proposals. We can only hope that they follow the guidelines given in their environmental statement: “… encouraging investors to mitigate environmental risks and engaging stakeholders in open and constructive dialogue…” If that results in a clean cruise port, great. If not, we’d rather have no cruise port at all.