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Comment on Thanet Earth Update by Old Dutch

Old Dutch — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:40:16 +0000

The dutch growers in the Netherlands use a chemical to make the skins of the veg tight. It is illegal to use that chemical in the UK but under European regulations the fruit and veg from Holland that is contaminated with that chemical cannot be banned from the UK markets. Wonder how “dirty” the production methods are in that giant carbuncle in the green belt?

Comment on Africa To Feed Europe’s Energy Appetite by Atrorubdomjub

Atrorubdomjub — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:17:17 +0000

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Comment on £3m Funding For Research Into Our Ancestors’ Response To Abrupt Climate Change by Bad credit Loans

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Comment on Green Light For London Desalination by How to Get Six Pack Fast

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Comment on Un-Eco Towns by michael wharton

michael wharton — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:10:09 +0000

Hi Pete
Hope you get this. You were kind enough to post an article on Fellowtravellers last year. I could use some support. Please drop me a line & I’ll tell you more.

ATB

Michael

Comment on Thanet Earth Update by floor jack

floor jack — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:25:28 +0000

I have to say, I can not agree with you in 100%, but it’s just my IMHO, which indeed could be very wrong.
p.s. You have an awesome template . Where did you find it?

Comment on UK’s First Community Hydro Scheme by Sean

Sean — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:02:17 +0000

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Comment on Thanet Earth Update by Pete Smith

Pete Smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:52:36 +0000

Thanet Earth will only produce produce which can be grown quite easily in the UK outdoors or in a cold greenhouse in their season. This is key to the whole issue; TE is pandering to a demand for year-round availability of seasonal produce, a demand created and fed by the culinary-retail-industrial complex. If people accepted food seasonality, there’d be no need to import salads, tomatoes etc from abroad.
As for jobs: TE is promoting the technical aspects of the work to be done in “the UK’s largest and most technologically advanced glasshouse complex”. If these were conventional horticultural jobs, rather than hard hat/white coat, would anyone sign up? After all, isn’t tomato picking and packing only fit work for immigrants?

Comment on Thanet Earth Update by matt

matt — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:37:06 +0000

It makes a lot of sense to me that this development goes ahead if you see less reliance on salad veg coming from Spain/Israel.

Or a law is passed stopping people from eating salad on Xmas day

Comment on Thanet Earth Update by Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:08:35 +0000

Christine Tongue states in her recent guest column in one of our local papers that she has lived here for 17 years. People such as Ms. Tongue probably mix in the ‘Broadstairs set’, so called middle class idealogical intellects (or so they think) with no real grasp of modern agricultural and consumer needs or history of Thanet’s decline. I have lived here 43 years (I was born in Thanet) and get hacked off with people who come to Thanet for a quiet life and expect the younger generation to tolerate their lack of vision at the expense of that generation’s future. This, the older generation who grew up in the 60s and beyond is the same one that failed to accept new ideas preferring to live in a museum culture. There is a lot of new investment coming into Thanet, a lot of new and interesting development, all these people want is to live a twee life at everyone else’s expense. Go away.