- Concern stalwarts Cyd Le Bail, Peter Surcouf and Chris Perkins Picture: JON GUEGAN (01012714)
THE States have failed to control a rise in population, according to members of an environmental pressure group that is disbanding this year.
- Concern stalwarts Cyd Le Bail, Peter Surcouf and Chris Perkins Picture: JON GUEGAN (01012714)
THE States have failed to control a rise in population, according to members of an environmental pressure group that is disbanding this year.
Concern has decided to fold because of members’ work commitments but has fired a final shot at Island politicians over Jersey’s ‘greatest low’ – a booming population.
• Read the full report in today’s Jersey Evening Post
The group has been fighting Jersey’s environmental corner for nearly 40 years, on issues including nuclear power, population control and pollution, but their members no longer have the time to actively continue their work.
Former chairman Cyd Le Bail said that the States had promised years ago to keep Jersey’s population at 80,000.
We know that has been forgotten,’ he said.
‘No politician has really taken it on board.’
With the latest figures showing that Jersey is home to 92,500 people, another former chairman of Concern, Peter Surcouf, said that it was causing more and more environmental problems.
‘It seems to me crazy that Jersey has the opportunity to not increase population other than by natural causes,’ he said.
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Concern stalwarts Cyd Le Bail, Peter Surcouf and Chris Perkins Picture: JON GUEGAN (01012714)
