There are two very important campaigns currently on the go which require your support in the form of online petitions to the British Pime Minister. It'd be splendid if you'd sign them (These are time limited so CHOP CHOP!!!):
First off is a petition to "Implement a Marine Litter Strategy and assign a suitable and credible body to tackle this worsening problem" This is a Surfers Against Sewage Campaign. Here's a brief movie explaining things.
To sign this petition go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/marine-litter/
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Next up is a petition to "Protect the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RLNI) from paying licence fees for using Maritime radio frequencies". RLNI is a charity which saves hundreds of lives each year and their income is partly through the profits from providing lifeguards on UK beaches (and not much profit) but primarily comes from charity donations.
RLNI has no government funding but is expected to pay tax?! Have you ever heard such a thing?
To sign this petition go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/RNLI-RF-licences/
To sign this petition go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/RNLI-RF-licences/
You have to be a UK citizen to sign these petitions.
Cheers
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2 comments:
For our US friends,the RNLI is basically doing everything your Coastguard does,but as a charity using volunteers.Mad,eh?
register yourselves as Brits just to support this!
Here's some feedback from number 10 regarding the RNLI Petition.
Those who voted may well have already seen this. For those who did, I hope this illustrates that voting can make a difference. Pretty sucessful outcome all in I'd say so well done everyone.
G
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www.number10.gov.uk
Friday 27 November 2009
RNLI-RF-licences - epetition response
We received a petition asking:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to protect the RNLI from paying licence fees for using Maritime radio frequencies.”
Details of Petition:
“As reported in the Sunday Telegraph on the 28th September 2008, Ofcom wants to bring “market forces” into the maritime and aviation communications. The RNLI will have to pay £250,000 a year, and “smaller search and rescue charities fear they may have to close”. This proposal must be rejected wholeheartedly.”
In August 2009 Ofcom published further proposals for spectrum pricing in the maritime sector. Those relevant to the RNLI and other safety-of-life charities were:
•Radio channels used by search and rescue organisations (including the RNLI) in the course of maritime emergencies are managed by HM Coastguard. These are shared channels and we will not be asking any individual rescue organisations to pay fees.
•In addition, we are proposing to make available, free of charge, a new channel (possibly two) to be shared by search and rescue organisations for routine, non emergency, communications. We have invited rescue organisations to say whether this would be helpful to them.
•Finally, where any charity, whose sole or main objective is the safety of human life in an emergency, requires a radio channel for its exclusive use, we are proposing that fees should continue to be discounted by 50%. Larger organisations which operate from multiple sites will also benefit from new “area defined licences” which permit an unlimited number of transmitters in the licensed area; these will often be much cheaper than today’s licences.
Full details of the consultation, which is set to close on 11 December 2009, are available on the Ofcom website (http://www.ofcom.org.uk). On completion of this consultation, Ofcom will publish a concluding statement.
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