YOU might want background - at

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/contract.txt 

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/decree.html#charges "censorship & secrecy"

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/trial1.html "funds - swindle?"

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/oswestry.html#no - "no safety"

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/authority8.txt - "hiding faults & crimes

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/review.html#his - "hiding clues"  

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/mediauk.html#Later - "hiding murderers?"

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/oswestry2.html#see - "bad edu"

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                     EARTH-QUAKE

   Some years ago we got to hear about a deal that sold
 North Shropshire's ground-water so a private company 
 could make big profits. Probably "inducements" swung
 the (hush-hush) decision since the people of Shropshire
 were _not_ told what damage the pumping (by Severn-Trent)
 would do to their environment.

   Wells and springs running dry, hilltop woods and copses
 dying, and calamitous effects on wild-life: these results
 could be expected - and only global-warming and ten wet 
 winters have saved us (and made all that pumping a 
 wasteful irrelevance).

   Some of you'll know we've experience forecasting some
 tectonic events using Earth / Sun / Moon data

( http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/fertility.html#Later )

 rather than local geological phenomena.

   Even so, using basic math & simple physics it was
 easy to see that a danger was slowly and surely being
 created. 

   What was it? Well, north Shropshire is built on a block 
 of solid sandstone - hence the ancient underground water.
 That block was under pressure from surrounding coal-beds.
 In the south a vitually solid line of coal runs through
 Shrewsbury to Telford - ie. from West to East.
 
   Pumping millions of tons of water _out_ of the 
 sandstone aquifer made the northern sandstone lighter
 and less able to resist the push of the southern coal
 strata. Ie. - ruining the age-old equilibrium between
 coal and sandstone and making severe local earthquakes
 a future inevitability.

   Did we tell the authority? Yes - we naively wrote a
 letter to Shropshire County Council. Naive: because we
 didn't think that corruption was involved - just 
 ignorance or stupidity.

   What happened? The County Council pretended that we
 hadn't written (but strangely, a Severn-Trent `scientist'
 made special efforts, in writing to us, to "deny" that
 any such results would occur!)

   However, the earthquake _did_ cut through the center of 
 Shrewsbury, slicing foundations and utilities along the 
 line of the sandstone/coal interface.

   So, did the bureaucrats and councillors apologize to
 "Perceptions"? Did the Severn-Trent `scientists' also 
 apologize?

   No - since then they have done their best to bury the
 whole sordid - and very expensive affair. But the costs
 will have to be paid by the people of Shropshire - in 
 higher local taxes and (unknown to most) higher insurance
 premiums. Because that earthquake will not be the last.
 Once equilibrium is destroyed a process called "hunting"
 takes over, with large or small shocks continually 
 reflecting the most recent imbalances. That `seesawing'
 could last for decades, centuries or longer.

 see
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/earthquakestorms.shtml

   Short-term greed has long-term consequences.

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   Evidence file for

   http://www.perceptions.couk.com/struggle.html
   http://www.perceptions.couk.com/trial.html
   http://www.perceptions.couk.com/authority8.txt
   http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html#pedophiles

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