Comments on: Access to Inland Water, letter to the Welsh Assembly Government http://news.pesdablog.com/2009/11/11/access-to-inland-water-letter-to-the-welsh-assembly-government/ Book News from Pesda Press Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: admin http://news.pesdablog.com/2009/11/11/access-to-inland-water-letter-to-the-welsh-assembly-government/#comment-3592 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:19:08 +0000 http://news.pesdablog.com/2009/11/11/access-to-inland-water-letter-to-the-welsh-assembly-government/#comment-3592 Hello David, The time for petitions to the Welsh Assembly Government has passed, but everyone can still contribute to the debate. At the moment the committee are gathering evidence about what sort of restrictions and disagreements there are from place to place, how they might be overcome and also evidence on the environmental impact of watersports (both buoyant and piscine), their income and any other anecdotal evidence. You can write to your constituency AM/MP and also log your experiences on the water on the <a href="http://www.welsh-canoeing.org.uk/access/incident_report.htm" rel="nofollow">WCA site</a>. Come along to the committee's traveling tour bus meeting in Betws or the other three locations this Friday and Saturday to contribute to the debate about how access legislation might best work, environmental impact and the overall costs and benefits. Regards, Pete Hello David,
The time for petitions to the Welsh Assembly Government has passed, but everyone can still contribute to the debate. At the moment the committee are gathering evidence about what sort of restrictions and disagreements there are from place to place, how they might be overcome and also evidence on the environmental impact of watersports (both buoyant and piscine), their income and any other anecdotal evidence.
You can write to your constituency AM/MP and also log your experiences on the water on the WCA site. Come along to the committee’s traveling tour bus meeting in Betws or the other three locations this Friday and Saturday to contribute to the debate about how access legislation might best work, environmental impact and the overall costs and benefits.
Regards,
Pete

]]> by: David Medcalf http://news.pesdablog.com/2009/11/11/access-to-inland-water-letter-to-the-welsh-assembly-government/#comment-3591 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:03 +0000 http://news.pesdablog.com/2009/11/11/access-to-inland-water-letter-to-the-welsh-assembly-government/#comment-3591 Thank you for publishing this letter - it certainly helped my understanding of the confused situation. My paddling is almost all estuary based, so I have not so far been affected by restrictions which seem far more extensive than I thought. However, I certainly believe that canoeing and kayaking could and should contribute significantly to the local economy, apart from the benefits and pleasure for the participants. So......this is one letter, to the WAG Sustainability Committee, on this topic. What do you recommend for individual paddlers to do to add weight to this? Letters [emails?] to the same Committee, or to our Welsh Assembly representative? Or to the WAG Minister for the Environment? Or should responses be channelled through, say, the Welsh Canoe Union? I note from the WCU website that there is a series of consultative visits by AMs, including one at Bettws on Fri 20th Nov. See http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-committees/bus-committees-third1/bus-committees-third-sc-home.htm Thanks again for publishing your letter. David Thank you for publishing this letter - it certainly helped my understanding of the confused situation. My paddling is almost all estuary based, so I have not so far been affected by restrictions which seem far more extensive than I thought. However, I certainly believe that canoeing and kayaking could and should contribute significantly to the local economy, apart from the benefits and pleasure for the participants.

So……this is one letter, to the WAG Sustainability Committee, on this topic. What do you recommend for individual paddlers to do to add weight to this? Letters [emails?] to the same Committee, or to our Welsh Assembly representative? Or to the WAG Minister for the Environment? Or should responses be channelled through, say, the Welsh Canoe Union?

I note from the WCU website that there is a series of consultative visits by AMs, including one at Bettws on Fri 20th Nov. See
 http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bu…

Thanks again for publishing your letter.

David

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