Petition Stop Dover Harbour Board dredging the Goodwin Sands.

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.

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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 marine.consents@marinemanagement.org.uk quoting the reference
MLA/2016/00227.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

21 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 21 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
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