Blackpool Traders Group is promoting a greenway which would run on top of a culverted section of the River Bride in Blackpool. The plan hinges on the OPW's stalled flood relief scheme.
This sounds like a patch-up green-washing proposal to me, in an attempt to placate the dissenters and present a rosy flourish to everyone else. I don't understand why they haven't invested in time to engage with the kinder and more efficient and ultimately more economical proposal of upstream storage. I am sick of the build at all costs mentality, building works are the cause of flooding, we need to increase green soakage in the city not cover it over. Rivers are the natural conduit for rain water and we should honour them, they should run clear as fresh water - once they are covered they become convenient conduits for human waste (everywhere the river has been culverted the system has been tapped for human waste) we must move away from the dangerous and damaging attitude that our precious river system are convenient sewers for human waste. Water is a resource for all life. We can't pretend that building a man-made Disney paradise on top of it that we are honouring the natural world. In our climate with proper investment in sustainable research we could lead the world on an understanding of water and how to go with the flow.
This sounds like a patch-up green-washing proposal to me, in an attempt to placate the dissenters and present a rosy flourish to everyone else. I don't understand why they haven't invested in time to engage with the kinder and more efficient and ultimately more economical proposal of upstream storage. I am sick of the build at all costs mentality, building works are the cause of flooding, we need to increase green soakage in the city not cover it over. Rivers are the natural conduit for rain water and we should honour them, they should run clear as fresh water - once they are covered they become convenient conduits for human waste (everywhere the river has been culverted the system has been tapped for human waste) we must move away from the dangerous and damaging attitude that our precious river system are convenient sewers for human waste. Water is a resource for all life. We can't pretend that building a man-made Disney paradise on top of it that we are honouring the natural world. In our climate with proper investment in sustainable research we could lead the world on an understanding of water and how to go with the flow.