News & Reports – Page 2

Sea lettuce furrowing trials finally commence

Thanks to a tip-off from a helpful member of the public, we were able to get down to La Haule in St Aubin’s to watch the furrowing commencing. Here’s what we saw, and why, and our thoughts on it.

Sea lettuce talks – where we are up to and why

Basically there are various strands to what’s going on; there is more detail but, in essence:

Sea lettuce problem update ~ 15 May 2017

We hope to be wrong, but we fear the sea lettuce blooms, which are the scourge of St Aubin’s Bay, will be back in force this year. Here is a brief report on what’s happening (or not) at the moment

IFC-SoJDC Asbestos update

SOS Jersey are moderately pleased to report that the pile of contaminated soil at the IFC was at least (mostly) covered today. We wonder why, however,

Safety – what safety? [JDC & ASBESTOS]

ASBESTOS – HOW MUCH & WHAT PROTECTION? …And what is Environmental Health doing? SOS Jersey are strongly concerned with the asbestos situation regarding the SoJDC excavations for the International Finance Centre.

Plans for West Mount – our initial thoughts

If you saw our environmental scientist Jacqui Carrel on the news earlier saying we think on the face of it hotelier Steve Beddoe’s plans for developing the area alongside the Avenue at West Mount are good, she did say that.

Plans for Kepple Tower area resubmitted

Earlier today we were contacted by Channel 103, asking us about our thoughts in the latest planning submission on the area around Kepple Tower. As you may recall, we helped 96-year-old Mary Herold with her dispute

Our view on the seaweed barges idea

Jacqui is in today’s JEP (p6, Fri 17 Feb 2017) giving our thoughts on using boats to take the sea lettuce piles out to sea. While the JEP gives accurate quotes, they aren’t assigned to right bits in all cases!

Safer path for pedestrians and cyclists around the French and English harbours?

Yesterday, SOS Jersey looked at the proposed plans for a new boardwalk around La Folie. Currently, unless you are in a car, nimble on your feet, or a confident cyclist, it’s a dodgy area to negotiate.

Flamanville explosion, asbestos, fertilisers and sea lettuce

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

SOSJ view plans for proposed new Sewage Treatment Works

Thanks to the Infrastructure Department (DoI) for inviting SOS Jersey to see the new Sewage Treatment Works (STW) plans. There are pros and cons for any design and this has been the one chosen to go with, assuming all planning

Ministers respond to SOS Jersey report & we reply

Jersey States Ministers to do with the environment have issued a media release in response to our last report. They have also issued a more detailed statement. As expected, the releases are

The Nitrate Problem in Jersey and its Consequences [Report]

In this short report, we will look at the problems we are experiencing with the Island’s water supplies and marine environment.

SOSJ in The Guardian – Sea Lettuce

We are in today’s Times newspaper, and Jacqui Carrel, SOS Jersey’s environmental scientist, gets an honourable mention:

What we ACTUALLY said about the dangers of sea lettuce

Given how we were attacked last summer by the DfI (formerly TTS) for being alarmist, we think its important to point out that the warnings (headlines) from this article in The Times aren’t ours and come from French toxicologists.

SOSJ in The Times – sea lettuce

We are in today’s Times newspaper, and Dave Cabeldu, SOS Jersey’s Co-ordinator, gets an honourable mention:

Daily photos 2016

With over 350 photos put up this year, we thought we’d link to the monthly albums rather than load them all here 🙂 You can also check out the Top 3s for each month by following our daily Facebook posts

Havre des Pas 60 years on

We’ll be putting in a new report for Scrutiny review in the New Year. In the meantime, here is composite of two photos taken 60 years apart, in 1956 and 2016 in exactly the same place at Havre des Pas.

Water quality review coming soon

SOS Jersey are about to submit a major body of work as part of a submission invited by the Environment, Housing and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel on Water Quality. This will be our 4th Scrutiny submission to date:

Sea lettuce problem – Department of Infrastructure must admit culpability

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:

Sea lettuce worries mainly sidestepped by Eddie Noel but new study ordered

Today saw an oral question from Senator Sarah Ferguson (plus supplementaries from Deputies Andrew Lewis and Monford Tadier) on the levels of nitrates being discharged from the Bellozanne sewage effluent outflow into St Aubin’s Bay and the legality of the levels.

SOSJ to work with environmental students from Brittany

As reported in today’s JEP (which was nearly accurate), SOSJ are going to work with the French, collecting data about sea lettuce, and pooling the two countries’ knowledge.

SOS Jersey build links with France over Sea Lettuce

SOS Jersey are to help and work with Environmental Science students from Brittany with their coastline studies, including sea lettuce research.

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

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.

Results of SOS Jersey’s St Aubin’s Bay survey

Water Quality in St Aubin’s Bay over the Summer of 2016 ~ A Study Summary by SOS Jersey, September 2016 ~

Jersey’s Senatorial By-Election 2016 – Qs & As

The election for a Senator is on Wednesday 7th September 2016. We put the following questions to all the candidates. Here are the (unedited) answers so far, given in alphabetical order of candidate; if it is blank, assume no answer

Plastic beads in the water – SOSJ comments

Here is an article from today’s Jersey Evening Post which includes a comment from Jacqui Carrel, SOS Jersey’s environmental scientist. We would like to see these microbeads banned forthwith.

Correction to JEP article

In yesterday’s JEP, Jack Maguire had a short article on the idea of furrowing the beach to help prevent sea lettuce accumulation next season. There were some worrying mistakes in it, so here is the article and our correction:

Infrastructure agree in principle to oysters to help sea lettuce problem

Today, Infrastructure Minister Eddie Noel, his Assistant Minister Deputy Richard Rondel and a phalanx of senior officers met with Deputy Jackie Hilton and Tony Legg of Jersey Sea Farms to talk about ways forward with Jersey’s sea lettuce problem. **SOS

The cause of Jersey’s sea lettuce problem

TTS MINISTER AUTHORISED SEA LETTUCE SOLUTION…AND THEN…