Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-09-Speech-1-096"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Quality of bathing water2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050509.15.1-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-09-Speech-1-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, Scotland has found it very difficult to meet even the 1976 Bathing Water Directive. The main problem for us is agriculture and the run-off because of high rainfall, especially on the west coast. Rainfall in these parts, which face the Atlantic and the prevailing weather, can be anything from 80 to over 100 inches – i.e. 250 cm – a year. The land use on the west coast is predominantly livestock: sheep and cattle and wild deer. So, every time there is a heavy rainfall, some faecal material will be washed down from the moors and onto the beaches. This is not unnatural, it has happened for centuries, and the next tide will quickly clean things up. Even so, the Scottish Executive, the local authorities and Scottish Water have spent huge sums of money trying to minimise these occurrences, keeping livestock out of the water courses and installing simple treatment systems that are designed to stem the natural flow. However, it is impossible to stop it completely. Scotland has miles and miles of splendid beaches. Scotland has much of Europe’s finest and wildest landscapes. Scotland has several of the world’s best-known breeds of cattle and sheep. Scotland sometimes even has beautiful weather, when tourists and local people flock to our beaches. It would be perverse and severely damaging if Parliament, led by the Green brigade who, sadly, know so little of the real world were to remove the ‘sufficient’ classification in this new directive and condemn Scotland’s beaches to the loss of their coveted and deserved status among the best and most beautiful in Europe."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Purvis (PPE-DE )."1

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