Campaigns
Last updated: January 6, 2008.
Photo: River Piddle, Wareham, Dorset.
UK campaigns
Our currently active campaigns:
- No New Nukes: Our mini-site opposing the construction of new nuclear power stations in Britain.
Our recent position statements:
- Abingdon reservoir: Thames Water's plans for a new £1 billion reservoir in Oxfordshire are unsustainable and unnecessary.
International campaigns
For the most up-to-date information about international river campaigns, take a look at:
Past campaigns
UKRN campaigners have been involved, to a greater or lesser extent, in a number of other campaigns in the last few years. Here's a small selection:
- Save Stonehenge!: Protecting the priceless Stonehenge landscape, including the Rivers Avon and Till, from a new highway and related developments.
- Teigngrace: Proposed diversion of rivers Teign and Bovey for a clay quarry in Devon.
- Newbury bypass: Road construction over Kennet and Lambourn river valleys.
- Salisbury bypass: Proposed road construction over River Avon watermeadows.
- Hastings bypass: Proposed river
valley crossing opposed by the Hastings Alliance.
- Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR).
- West Wellow: Proposed wetland landfill site near Romsey.
- Trigon: Proposed quarry landfill site Wareham.
- Dibden Bay: Proposed international container port at Southampton.
- Greenfield housing in Hampshire and nationally.
