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- zappo1776, on 10/10/2007, -13/+99Destroying wetlands should be banned worldwide. I thought the UK was above this sort of thing. How naive I am.
- geodescent, on 10/10/2007, -5/+59Devil's advocate: How is it illegal if they are given permission?
- Alegoo92, on 10/10/2007, -6/+57ya know, diggers, try to realize how little power you have. Especially in the face of corporations; stop glorifying yourself by syaing "DIGG THIS STORY UP STOP THE MADNESS'.. rarely anything happens because of Digg's support.
- Jholder112233, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31 npower is not friendly. They knock on your door what seems like every week and go : "Hello Sir, We can save you money on your energy bills. Just switch from British Gas to npower". What they really mean is: "Please come and switch to our shoddy service with terrible customer support".
Bah/ - davidrools, on 10/10/2007, -12/+36is it a friendly giant?
- PoppaSpanky, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27Buried as inaccurate. Exagerations and bad science don't help you build a case. 15 species of birds will not be wiped out as they don't soley exist at that location. And the house sparrow? Come on.
Maybe this isn't the highest and best use of the property. Maybe preservation is. But the whole picture isn't presented here and this is just a last minute panic attempt to raise some voices against what seems to have been taken through appropriate channels of permitting. - adgreene, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Your comment is under-rated. Thats pretty damn funny.
- Feyr, on 10/10/2007, -7/+21illegally?
there's nothing illegal about it, they obtained the permits from the proper licensing authority. now you may disagree with that authority, and you should take it up with them, but there's nothing illegal about what the company is doing with the lake
as presented, it's just more ecoterrorist babbling. greenpeace would be proud - Scarfy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12How do you chain yourself to a lake?
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13It's illegal if you're opposed to it, just like Chimpy McBu$hitler's "illegal" war in Iraq, which is completely legal.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I actually live here and it's got nothing to do with floods. This has been going on for months, way before major flooding over here. It's to do with teh fact that Didcot A produces too much ash and Npower needs a place to dump it.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Similarly nothing magical is going to happen when diggers unite and click that "digg this" button.
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10It's not, but lots of idiots claim it is. They never cite sources, though. You're not familiar with this phenomenon? It's rather common on Digg.
- GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Legality never stopped government or corporation from doing anything.
- CedanticPunt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11"This will wipe out 15 species of birds"
So, these 15 species of birds have no other habitat and will become extinct? No, thought not.
What they're doing may be wrong, or may not be. But I'm burying this for being inaccurate and sensationalist... - Manuelmty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7can't be an evil giant , i killed 'em all in shadow of the colossus
- toxicityj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9bloody hell
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Meh. God will just make a new one. Probably way better too, now that He's had some practice.
- Octantis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8How is the war in Iraq illegal?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Wetlands = swamp
- dandiemer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6if the birds weren't such pacifists in the first place there wouldn't be a problem.
- projectstartrek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6That's like saying the US supported Bush...
- mwrl, on 10/10/2007, -16/+21This is being done in a effort to combat rising floods. Those darn humans and their want to not be flooded out of their homes again! Think of the water and the ..... uh fish!!! yeah the fish!!! and um .... birds yeah!!!
Seriously, there will not be any damage to the environment in the UK because of this. It is a safety move, nothing more. - nick111, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5A million people protested against the Iraq war in London.
- them3nace, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I agree very funny, some do not seem to get it
I will repeat the headline:
Diggers help us prevent an energy giant destroying a lake
Now do you get it? - Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5We've been hearing about this for months in the local papers. Npower owns this lake, however protesters have been so persistant that it's going to court.
Didcot power station (Didcot A) produces a ton of ash, however it's quite rare that something like this happens.
Man, that place has been vandalised and protested against so many times. - GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12High and mighty douchebaggary is afoot.
What is so wrong with attempting to preserve the environment? - TannerC, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I saved a lake today by clicking a button. Is there anything the internet can't do?
- scykon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Meh. Stop standing in the way of progress. I'm sick and tired of people who are happy to use power but unwilling to sacrfice anything for it. If they use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere you moan. If they put up windmills and solar panels you moan it ruins the landscape.
if you've really got a problem with this sort of thing stop being a hypocrite and go 100% self-sufficient. - metkillerjoe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6They are destroying a lake? Bad. Creating a topic on Digg about it: Pointless. There are some things can be thought out with common sense, for everything else there is denial.
- nailPuppy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+11Because some hippie wants to get a sympathy vote by overlooking that little bit?
- pleetonboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4He's right noob. Do none of you realize the tiny, tiny fraction of the population that is digg? I'm guessing most of the world doesn't care what a bunch of geeks and nerds think about anything anyway.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No, because it's irrelevant if or how many people digg the story. The most that will happen is it's frontpaged, which has usually already happened by the time I see a story.
I'm just fascinated by this belief that using digg actually changes anything in the world, and especially by requests to digg a story to help bring about some change purely by clicking "digg this". - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Want those lights to come on when you flick the switch? Better vote yes on the hydropower. Otherwise you can do as you like and hopefully the UK will go ahead and fall further down the ladder of a country. Then I can gloat as Jeremy Clarkson is forced to move to the USA to get a decent living.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I believe in this cause but let's be honest...when have digg users ever made an impact on a story whose title asks for digg user help? Digg is a tiny majority of people that nobody off the internet recognizes and I am convinced most users are under the age of 15.
- synwolf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You speak with the voice of every American who does not vote.
- shunpike, on 10/10/2007, -7/+10i live near this area and the whole area will be ruined if this happens - but digging it won't help - we need to chain ourselves to the lake and protest!
- bogatash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Diggers could be like Fight Club, except we run all the worlds computer systems.
- tehxen3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I don't care about birds, power is more important. I hope they build it.
- trofeo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Since when has something being legal or otherwise made it right or wrong?
- spawnfree, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3but Digg.....is made of people
- GrieVe, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8The last thing we need is another cause for Digg to "bring awareness to," or to save. A majority of the people who digg this story will probably just click "digg" and be done with it. Clicking on a button on the internet and making a number go up by one doesn't save any lakes.
- tek1024, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3First rule man, come on--!
- edd17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I may be wrong but the preservation of wetlands is known to reduce the threat of flooding. I couldn't find any mention of this being part of any flood defence plan.
- alciadanet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4If you want to preserve the lake then buy it.
- BillyBIanks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So, ***** the environment because the country where it's located is in opposition to your ideologies?
Self-absorbed cry-baby prick. - Goose31, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Possibly like this?
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9743/blockingalakekk7.jpg - bromac, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6What. The. *****?
It may be done for safety (unlikely, as Ramble has said) but it WILL damage the environment. Just because it's a safety move doesn't mean it's "nothing more". Most environmental damage has humans in mind. It's the fact that it's going to eventually come back and bite HUMANS in the ass that we care.
I call *****. Are you from nPower? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Amazing how delusional you ar if you think that Digg will EVER make anyone change their mind.
This website has ZERO power over the real world. And it is getting less and less each day. - Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Public awareness is always a good thing. No, a single click on digg won't help save the lake, but I can refer this problem to some of my environmental activist friends who don't frequent online social networks, or Britans could tell their friends about this problem. Spreading awareness is good, even if the majority of the people who dugg this story don't spread the awareness past their computer chair, some will and that increases the chances of something getting done.
And what is the downside to people having the dillusion that they can help an issue by supporting it? I'd say it is a dillusion worth harbouring until an issue strikes that person right and actually causes them to do more than just click to support that issue they care about. It is better than speading the FUD that individuals are not capable of making a difference in the world, kind of defeatist isn't it? -
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