Increasing population and environmental effects

Sea lettuce in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey - SOS Jersey

The official population of Jersey is now 104,200 – and we don’t know how many are here unofficially. This, of course, has an effect on our environment. In terms of our SOSJ remit, we’ll briefly outline our concerns as to

Flamanville explosion, asbestos, fertilisers and sea lettuce

Louisa Pilbeam from Channel TV interviews Jacqui Carrel from SOS Jersey about the new Rural Economy Strategy which was released 14 February 2016

It’s been busy media-wise. Our environmental scientist Jacqui Carrel has been on Channel TV on various subjects three times over the last week and is due to speak on Radio Jersey tomorrow morning (Wed 15 Feb). Here’s a brief overview of what

Sea lettuce problem – Department of Infrastructure must admit culpability

Letter about Jersey's sea lettuce problem to JEP ~ 01 Dec 2016

This letter appears in today’s Jersey Evening Post – it doesn’t need any further explanation, but you can look through our archives to get salient details on the appalling practises and cover-ups:

SOSJ’s response to the Environment Department ‘alarmist’ claims

SOS Jersey refute Environment's clams about what we said

This response is with reference to the article in the Jersey Evening Post (Monday 03 October 2016), ‘Environment hit back over alarmist pollution claims’ and a couple of other erroneous statements we have heard/seen on the media.

SOS Jersey will be this evening’s news

In the wake of our sea lettuce report, SOSJ Committee Member Jacqui Carrel spent time on the beach this morning being interviewed by Channel TV and BBC TV (Jersey & SW UK) about the sea lettuce problem. Here’s a brief

Sea lettuce update – possible solution?

Potential solution to Jersey's sea lettuce problem, using native Jersey oysters

We were astonished and dismayed to read last week’s JEP story where Ministers were quoted saying there was nothing to be done about our burgeoning sea lettuce problem! Why the astonishment and dismay? Well,