Mark, at last someone at the ACA has had the ?balls? to do something about the gravest threat to fish stocks nationally, aquatic mammalia and mankind. It?s only taken 8 years since I notified your predecessor about the then Consultation being held by the EA Endocrine Disrupting Substances in the Environment: ?what should be done??
The then Executive officers despite a wealth of evidence from Brunel University and US research, ignored the whole issue and failed miserably to make a submission to that Consultation. In case you?re wondering how I know the ACA didn?t make a submission? The EA issued a follow up report ?Review of comments on the EA?s Consultation EDS in the Environment What can be done?? In that report a full list of those making comments appears, and the ACA is absent!
That Mark, up and until your comment above for this November, has remained the same!
That?s in case you missed it the first time, is a total of 8 years without comment on probably the gravest threat to sustainable fish stock in E & W.
You asked am I member? The answer is NO, I was, but on a point of principled disgust, I steadfastly refused to renew my membership and that remains the case and will do for sometime to come! The money instead went/goes to the World Wildlife Fund who has been actively hounding this Govt over the issue.
The ACA has 8 years of lost ground to make up on this matter, and whilst it clearly has now made a start, only time will tell whether it's thrown off the shackles of ambivalence to the matter.