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![SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
“[I]t would be difficult to imagine a more environmentally
damaging alternative location for the proposed toll road and
one which would be more clearly inconsistent with the
environmentally sensitive habitat resource protection
requirements contained within Coastal Act Section 30240.”
“No measures exist that would enable the proposed
alignment to be found consistent with the Coastal Act.”
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International Coastal Symposium 2013 SAS & Surfrider
The document discusses the threats to surfing waves globally and emphasizes the need for legal protections to safeguard these environments. It highlights specific case studies, including a successful campaign against a toll road proposal in California, and advocates for raising awareness about the value of surfing waves. Additionally, it stresses the necessity for both amending existing legislation and creating new laws to ensure sustainable access and protection against pollution and development threats.
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- 3. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen • How Surfing Has Evolved • Threats To Surfing Waves • Reactive Case Study: North American Wave Under Threat, Surfrider Foundation • Proactive Case Study: Adapting Current Legislation To Better Protect Surfing Waves Or Creating New Law Protection Legislation
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- 7. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen A Reactive Campaign To Protect Trestles, California. By Chad Nelsen
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- 14. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen “[I]t would be difficult to imagine a more environmentally damaging alternative location for the proposed toll road and one which would be more clearly inconsistent with the environmentally sensitive habitat resource protection requirements contained within Coastal Act Section 30240.” “No measures exist that would enable the proposed alignment to be found consistent with the Coastal Act.” California Coastal Act
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- 16. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Major impacts to a sensitive & highly used natural area Not consistent with the California Coastal Act. Inconsistent with other state and federal laws? Massive public response was the difference Toll road project rejected by the CA Coastal Commission & US Department of Commerce The threat isn’t over Conclusions
- 17. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Waves Under Threat Globally Australia UK Chile Ireland Colombia America Mexico South Africa New Zealand The Azores
- 18. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Waves Damaged Globally Chile Madeira Ecuador Spain New Zealand
- 19. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Waves Destroyed Around The World America Brazil Portugal Mexico Maldives UK
- 20. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Under Threat From Development
- 21. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Under Threat From Restricted Access
- 22. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Under Threat From Pollution
- 23. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Under Threat From Radioactive Waste
- 24. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Proactive Case Study: Adapting Current Legislation To Better Protect Surfing Waves Or Creating New Law Protection Legislation. By Andy Cummins
- 25. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen
- 26. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Protect Our Waves Petition. Inappropriate coastal development. Restriction on raw sewage discharges via CSOs Management systems in place to tackle marine litter Secure water users rights to sustainably access the coast
- 27. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Raise awareness across the surfing community about the array of threats facing our coastline. Raise awareness amongst developers & polluters about the value of waves and the surfing community Raise awareness amongst legislators about the economic, social, cultural and environmental value of waves
- 28. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen The petition calls on Parliament to debate the economic and intrinsic value of UK surfing waves and beaches, and produce specific legislation to protect these unique, finite assets for this and future generations.
- 29. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009 Revised Bathing Water Directive and/or the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Clean Neighbourhood & Environment Act 2005 Amend Current Legislation
- 30. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Legislation could be created to specifically protect surfing waves and the dynamics needed to protect surfing waves from inappropriate development, surfers sustainable access to the coast and the ensure the waters around recreational water sports zones are impacted by pollution. Create New Legislation
- 31. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Summary • Threats are numerous, varied and usually backed by well resourced institutions. • Currently the onus is on NGOs to recognise threats and effectively defend the wave/represent the surfing community. • Amending current legislation or creating new legislation would protect waves around the entire UK. Boscombe’ s artificial surfing reef £3 million. Is Broad Bench worth over £10 million, £100 million?
- 32. SAS Campaign Director,Andy Cummins & Surfrider Environmental Director Chad Nelsen Thanks for listening. Any questions?
Editor's Notes
- #3 For the next 15 minutes when Chad and I refer to waves we are talking about surfing waves and dynamics needed to produce surfing waves - such as wave height and period; swell direction and distance travelled; peel angle; wind speed and direction and bathymetry/geographical features. These are all found within the swell corridor and the coast where the waves break.
- #5 Although surfing was historically the sport of kings, it’s had a rebrand
- #6 Around once a decade Hollywood has defaced the sport of surfing. Surfers are often cast as on the fringes of society, often criminals.
- #7 In the 21st centaury surfers cover a diverse range of society. Doctors, lawyers and media professionals mix with teachers, builders and students without the social restrains that might normally keep these groups apart. Surfing is a valuable market globally worth
- #15 At page 3 of the Executive Summary & at p. 10
- #17 During what the media called the “Woodstock of the surf movement,” you could feel, “the energy in the air-a booming resonance of civic duty,” said Stefanie Sekich, Surfrieder’s Save Trestles Campaign Coordinator. “Seeing thousands of people come together in an orderly, positive fashion made me feel hopeful for the future.”
- #18 Surfrider’s Save Trestles campaign is a great example of a how much effort is needed to currently protect a high value wave. At the last Global Wave Conference one of Chad’s colleagues made the point that a wave is never saved, it’s always being saved. This leaves an unfair burden on groups like Surfers Against Sewage and the Surfrider Foundation. Globally, these countries have a number of waves are under threat to varying degrees of impacts.
- #19 Global these countries are home to waves that have already been damaged but not yet destroyed.
- #20 Unfortunately,waves have been destroyed and communities around these valuable assets have suffered because they were not protected from inappropriate developments or pollution.
- #21 In the UK, developers already have to go through an expensive and time-consuming process to get planning permission, and this includes conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). If there were effective laws stating that surfing waves cannot be interfered with or destroyed, it would be in the developers' own interest to avoid putting their concrete in the wrong place. RAMPION 22% reduction Impacts identified as high. Mitigation “consultation with stakeholder groups”. Divers were granted protection on good diving days by limiting installation activities. The artificial reef is in the shadow of this development. Limited understanding of what makes a good surfing wave, the benefits of surfing (both socially and economically) and the size of the surfing community.Harbor development, Freshwater Bay, Oyster Devices at Marwick, offshore wind at Brighton and Bournemouth and the IoW. With a greater recognition of the surfing waves developers would start their projects looking to have minimum impact (Rampion, Rochdale envelope approach, it won’t look like this so it would be irresponsible to object Vs if it won’t look like this why have it within the Rochdale envelope (turbine size, distance from shore and space between the turbines. Dredging in Cornwall will produce 100 new jobs. Vs 1,600 full time year round jobs surfing provides Cornwall as well as £64 million pounds annually. Not to mention the other impacts to tourism. However, there are concerns about putting a value on a wave, what happens when a more valuable project comes along?
- #22 The bench is closed to surfers for 228 days a year. The majority of the time it’s open coincides with seasons that do not produce waves in the area. The dredging proposal for Cornwall could have significant restrictions across some of the most popular North Cornish surfing and tourist beaches. Surfing and other water sports are valuable exercise pat times making sure the population is as fit, health and happy as possible.
- #23 These waves are all failing the 1976 bathing water directive’s water quality standards. At the minimum pass rate the chance of contracting gastro enteritis could be as high as 1 in 7, FOR A BATHER. Surfers are 3 times more likely to contract an illness than a windsurfer, and many times more likely than a bather. This is because new wetsuit technologies allow surfers to access the water all year round for prolonged periods and ingestion and immersion is an obvious risk with the sport and route of infection.
- #24 Guardian 2011:Tens of thousands of radioactive fuel fragments escaped from the Dounreay plant between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches, the coastline and the seabed. Fishing has been banned within a two-kilometre radius of the plant since 1997.The most radioactive of the particles are regarded by experts as potentially lethal if ingested. Similar in size to grains of sand, they can incorporate traces of plutonium-239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years BBC NEWS: Experts believe they may have found the most radioactive particle to be recovered so far from a beach near the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness.The particle, which was found on 14 February, was the 208th to be recovered from the beach by contractors.
- #25 The threats are diverse and are often executed by powerful and extremely well resources institutions. The Protect Our Waves petition is a proactively strategic campaign aimed at a national level rather than reactively campaigning at a regional level, defending waves time and again.
- #26 The onus is on the NGO to defend natural resources and prove the ‘value’ of the wave rather than the developer to ensure their activities will not adversely impact on the surfing resource. Once a development impacts a wave it’s hard to undo.