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Stop Dover Harbour Board dredging the Goodwin Sands.

Submitted on Thursday 17th November 2016

Published on Thursday 24th November 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 2nd May 2017

Signatures: 21

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kent ~ UK

Petition Action

Stop Dover Harbour Board dredging the Goodwin Sands.

Petition Details

Dover Harbour Board want to extract marine aggregate from the Goodwins. Home to 350 grey seals and the some 2,000 shipwrecks. We are already susceptible to erosion. Beach recharging works are constant. Flooding along the East Kent coast is continual problem which would be exacerbated by dredging.

Additional Information

There is a current petition to raise awareness, as detailed below.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/goodwin-sands-sos-stop-the-dredge
This has reached over 12,000 signatures.
Please help save the Goodwin Sands and their neighbouring environment from the destruction of dredging by signing this petition today and also by writing to the Marine Management Organisation with your concerns.
Letters can be emailed to [email protected] quoting the reference
MLA/2016/00227.


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