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agricola Joined: 28/10/2007 Location: In a book View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
West Briton story about WHS and mining
Posted: 12/07/2012 11:49:44 Reply | Quote I know its the West Briton but this made me laugh  http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Don-t-say-world-heritage-bosses-spoil/story-16521166-detail/story.html As they say you couldn't make this stuff up. -- If it can't be grown it has to be mined. IP: 81.137.244.112 |
stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
West Briton story about WHS and mining
Posted: 12/07/2012 13:20:28 Reply | Quote The problem with all these public sector and international gravytrains is they are totally independent of actually doing some work to pay for themselves. That of course comes from other people shuffling things which have ultimately been grown/mined/fished. The sentiment of the WHS is important, but sticking the spanner in major economic works is just madness. The problem is that whilst being able to recite every possible environmental, equality and socialist buzzword and concept, apart from that, a lot of the people haven't got a fricking clue and if they have, they are being quiet in order to receive the fat paycheque. Another example of a legitimate organisation turning cancerous and threatening to take over the life support organs. If they had read a bit of history, they would have seen that many sites were totally destroyed in historical progress. IP: 92.29.170.118 |
somersetminer Joined: 19/05/2012 Location: Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 12/07/2012 13:31:55 Reply | Quote it really just illustrates the disadvantages of being part of this organisation, what do the people living IN this WHS know or care about what is discussed or decided in forgodssake St Petersberg and vice versa IP: 90.217.81.239 |
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stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 12/07/2012 17:14:34 Reply | Quote Again, I'd like to see the accounts. What they spend on actual heritage, and what they spend on jerking off. IP: 94.197.191.238 Edited: 12/07/2012 17:14:56 by stuey |
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Tamarmole Joined: 20/05/2009 Location: Tamar Valley View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 12/07/2012 17:37:03 Reply | Quote Good for Unesco - we don't want any nasty industry contaminating our cultural heritage IP: 109.149.134.114 |
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davetidza Joined: 21/02/2010 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 12/07/2012 18:25:43 Reply | Quote To see what was actually said - see http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2012/whc12-36com-7BAdd-en.pdf about page 186 IP: 62.49.28.79 |
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RRX Joined: 27/11/2009 Location: Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 12/07/2012 18:58:53 Reply | Quote so the basics are they agree that mining should take place, but as the area is a WHS that they should be informed and that because they havnt been informed that it should stop untill they have read eveything and made up thier mind, or we just carry on and ignore them anyway which sounds like a better idea -- www.carbisbaycrew.co.uk Cornwall's Underground Site IP: 91.85.57.30 |
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Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
West Briton story about WHS and mining
Posted: 12/07/2012 19:03:43 Reply | Quote davetidza wrote: To see what was actually said - see http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2012/whc12-36com-7BAdd-en.pdf about page 186 Like I said elsewhere on this forum today, some people are too quick to criticise and condemn without checking the full facts. The concerns expressed in the report are very specific, and do not seem to me to be as draconian as certain people have suggested. -- Hé ! Ki kapcsolva le a villanyt ? IP: 92.10.146.179 |
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stuey Joined: 15/08/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
West Briton story about WHS and mining
Posted: 12/07/2012 20:39:21 Reply | Quote Nice to see that they mentioned Hallenbeagle, which is being stripped up and concreted as we speak. Let's hope the CAU got in there and made some assessments beforehand. I'm aware that the WHS has certain areas which it has "bagged" and then makes all kinds of fuss about these. The snag is that stuff which is in real critical danger of being torn up and ruined is not within that area. See Whiteworks at Gwennap, see Wheal Martha in SE Cornwall, see Hallenbeagle, etc, etc, etc. Since this is a very large body which isn't terribly precise, it should fall closer to home to protect and conserve specific sites which have had concerns repeatedly raised about them. See Whiteworks, Hallenbeagle and various shaft plugging programmes in the 90's. It appears to be a load of people fiddling around the edges of the problem (and I'm sure the local consultants are most certainly paid a fortune to pursue what is meant to be the rationale behind their job....are they local? Do they give a toss? Or are they merely on the gravytrain). I most certainly am very scathing about them, because I (like many of you) spend a lot of my time poking around these sites, exploring them and understanding them and see what is being missed. Cornwall Council most certainly seemed to have lost a lot of the vested-interest hare-lippers and have got a bit more credible, but still, important things are getting buried. Whilst I accept that progress is necessary and it is most certainly a good idea to clean up derilect land and put it to use, it needs to be done in a way that buried features are carefully recorded and understood and remains are conserved where appropriate, it appears that in a lot of cases, stuff is being ruined because these idiots are riding roughshod over the heritage, unhindered by the authorites and people like the WHS are pissing about with places like Crofty which the article infers nobody has actually been there..... However, they have probably been to Barbados to discuss it. I'm not sure who they are using as a local consultant. I wonder if they are conducting their research via google images? IP: 94.197.53.159 Edited: 12/07/2012 20:45:35 by stuey |
Dolcoathguy Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Camborne, Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 14/07/2012 16:30:17 Reply | Quote Can't download the article (only partially loads), but wonder the WHS say about the new link road? Or any other non crofty development? Are these mentioned in the article? -- Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet? IP: 92.28.220.11 |
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