Of course not but there is a tenous link - Shell was founded in 1897 by Viscount Bearsted (who was plain Mr Samuel at the time) and whose residence was to become Mote House in Maidstone. While Mote Park has moved into public ownership and is the jewel in Maidstone's crown (the 180 hectare park is in the centre of Maidstone), Shell is another matter.
Apart from the whole issue of digging finite resources up and promoting them as if they do not damage and will never run out, Shell has hardly got a great record as a company.
This piece is out in today's Morning Star: "Shell has announced that it will axe another 1,000 jobs this year despite raking in over £6 billion in profits. The bombshell was dropped after the company reported a 69 per cent fall in annual profits to £6.1bn"
It must be a tough life when your profits fall to just £6 billion. Of course it is a much tougher life when your job is axed.
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Showing posts with label Mote Park. Show all posts
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Friday, 5 February 2010
Monday, 10 November 2008
Mote Park and Ride
Letter sent to the KM:
Dear Editor,
It is rare for a Green to speak out against a bus lane, but putting one through Mote Park would surely be a disastrous piece of vandalism, especially as there are two clear alternatives.
The best option would surely be to use the Loose Road, continuing the bus lanes from the A274. The Loose Road already has four lanes. two of which could easily become bus lanes. To prevent too much of a squeeze on car drivers, the frequency of buses would need to be dramatically increased. Alternatively, the A20 could be widened without encroaching on the park to allow a bus lane from Willington Street into town.
Aside from the environmental vandalism that a bus lane through Mote Park would be, bus lanes should serve people and there aren't that many people living in the Park.
Stuart Jeffery
Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Maidstone and the Weald
Dear Editor,
It is rare for a Green to speak out against a bus lane, but putting one through Mote Park would surely be a disastrous piece of vandalism, especially as there are two clear alternatives.
The best option would surely be to use the Loose Road, continuing the bus lanes from the A274. The Loose Road already has four lanes. two of which could easily become bus lanes. To prevent too much of a squeeze on car drivers, the frequency of buses would need to be dramatically increased. Alternatively, the A20 could be widened without encroaching on the park to allow a bus lane from Willington Street into town.
Aside from the environmental vandalism that a bus lane through Mote Park would be, bus lanes should serve people and there aren't that many people living in the Park.
Stuart Jeffery
Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Maidstone and the Weald
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