Saturday, April 18, 2009

Save Our Waterways Petition

Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to introduce legislation to solve the short term funding problems that have been caused by the cuts that Defra has made, and threatens to continue, to the budgets of British Waterways and the navigations the Environment Agency, and to ensure that long-term funding is made available to enable the inland navigation authorities to maintain, improve and restore these important parts of our national heritage.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveOurWaterways/Ad7K3KEpjBhJBjiF7LAxacW

The petition was created by Will Chapman and reads:

'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to introduce
legislation to solve the short term funding problems that have
been caused by the cuts that Defra has made, and threatens to
continue, to the budgets of British Waterways and the
navigations the Environment Agency, and to ensure that
long-term funding is made available to enable the inland
navigation authorities to maintain, improve and restore these
important parts of our national heritage.'