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Samaryantha rated 8 weeks ago- A storm is brewing in the normally tranquil South Downs after permission to dig for oil was granted to a petroleum company. Conservation groups are furious that the council is allowing such a development on a designated area of outstanding natural beauty. West Sussex County Council granted permission this week for Northern Petroleum to drill an oil well in Markwells Wood, an ancient woodland in the village of Forestside, near Chichester. The company expressed an interest in drilling in the area after oil prices soared. Groups opposing the plans say the drilling - which will destroy a hectare (2.5 acres) of woodland in an area which is likely to become part of the South Downs National Park - amounts to an act of environmental vandalism. But the council, despite its own ecologist and landscape officers objecting to the scheme, decided that the application met all legal requirements and approved it on the understanding that Northern Petroleum will replace and enhance the woodland when it has finished working on the site, which is expected to be in about three years' time. Steve Marsh, a spokesman for the Woodland Trust, said: "This is in ancient woodland which we consider to be irreplaceable. It's our richest habitat for species in the UK and we would consider it as the equivalent, in terms of importance, to a rainforest." Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, added: "This application is a further symptom of our dependence on dwindling oil resources. Sooner or later we must wean our society off oil and the quicker we do so the better."
- roswellpixie rated 8 weeks ago
- Eco-vandalism. This must be stopped at all costs, using violence if necessary. Want an oil replacement? Want an everything replacement? Use bloody hemp.
