Flotilla / vigil against nuclear power, Bradwell, Essex — Sun 9 August

Sun­day, 9th August 2009 — from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
join a peace­ful sum­mer vig­il in the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary

The future of the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary should con­cern every­one. Any despoil­ing of this unique facil­i­ty will take away the oppor­tu­ni­ty for its enjoy­ment for many gen­er­a­tions to come.

Sun­day, 9th August 2009 — from 14.00 to 16.00 hrs
join a peace­ful sum­mer vig­il in the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary

The future of the Black­wa­ter Estu­ary should con­cern every­one. Any despoil­ing of this unique facil­i­ty will take away the oppor­tu­ni­ty for its enjoy­ment for many gen­er­a­tions to come.

This does not apply just to “the water­folk”, but to all who enjoy out­door pur­suits and activ­i­ties around the Estu­ary, such as local res­i­dents, fish­er­men, bird­watch­ers, ram­blers and walk­ers, wild­fowlers and for those who just like the “open and peace­ful space of the Estu­ary”.

If we are not vig­i­lant, the Estu­ary, as we like it, could be irre­triev­ably ruined for the future.

The inten­tion is to attract recre­ation­al and com­mer­cial users of the estu­ary and its sur­round­ings to join a PEACEFUL VIGIL at Brad­well in protest against the devel­op­ment of a pro­posed new nuclear pow­er sta­tion (pos­si­bly more than one) and the asso­ci­at­ed high lev­el radioac­tive waste dump.

Water­craft -

anchor/float about off the beach to include yachts, motor­boats, dinghies, kayaks canoes and “what­ev­er” between 14.00 and 16.00 hrs

Show your par­tic­i­pa­tion by dis­play­ing flags/banners, if afloat — from the rig­ging – make these up out of old bed­sheets or some­thing sim­i­lar. Just dis­play any­thing to show your protest!

Walk­ers, bird­watch­ers and beach­combers -

make it an out­ing – bring fam­i­ly and friends and enjoy a pic­nic or bar­be­cue on the beach in front of the old sta­tion.

If you unable to get afloat or vis­it Brad­well, a group will be meet­ing for a pic­nic from 1.30 onwards on West Mersea beach, close to St Peter’s Steps, and just a short walk down Coast Road from West Mersea Church. — Don’t for­get to bring a sun­shade if it’s a sun­ny day, espe­cial­ly if you are bring­ing any chil­dren!

DIRECTIONS: If com­ing by rail and/or bus, the two-hourly West Mersea bus 67 leaves the North Sta­tion bus stop from 8.10am onwards on the south side of the bridge. So for exam­ple if you get the one which leaves North Sta­tion at 12.10pm, Colch­ester High Street at about 12.15pm, and the bus sta­tion at 12.20pm it gets to Mersea near the church at 12.50pm.

Don’t for­get there are spe­cial bar­gain bus fares on Sun­days. The bus returns at 3pm, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm and 11pm so you can make a day of it. Cut your car­bon foot­print and leave your car at home for a change per­haps if you would nor­mal­ly trav­el by car???

There is free car park­ing behind the library if there are any spaces, or you can park along var­i­ous roads includ­ing St Peter’s Road — go past the church and it’s to the right off Coast Road.

We want to high­light:

* Envi­ron­men­tal dam­age to the Estu­ary fore­shore, wildlife, plea­sure and com­mer­cial fish­ing and local oys­ter indus­tries
* Poten­tial restric­tion on access for recre­ation­al use to the Estu­ary and its fore­shore
* Long term on site stor­age of high­ly radioac­tive waste
* Increased health risks to sur­round­ing pop­u­la­tion result­ing from tox­ic waste and from the lack of long term evac­u­a­tion plans for the sur­round­ing areas
* Neg­a­tive Visu­al impact of the new facil­i­ty and the reten­tion of the for­mer sta­tion

Black­wa­ter Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG)
http://www.banng.org.uk