Over Half Of Guernsey's Election Candidates Want Sewage Treatment Improvements!

55% of Guernsey's election candidates believe the current system of dumping the island's raw sewage at sea each day to be unsatisfactory and support raising the level of sewage treatment applied. 44% of the island's election candidates go further by supporting a full (tertiary level) sewage treatment policy.

These are amongst the findings from a Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) survey sent out to all 2008 election candidates. The full survey results can be viewed below.

SAS are urging the public to make the issue of sewage treatment a key election issue and are providing information to the electorate in the run up to polling day that highlights where candidates stand on an issue that has already come close to success in recent months.

SAS believes the island of Guernsey should be adopting a full sewage treatment policy to bring them into line with the way many seaside resorts treat sewage in order to protect the health of recreational water users using the sea. SAS are disgusted by Guernsey's raw sewage dumping policy and believe money should be invested to better protect the health of all recreational water users, improve water quality standards to meet a demanding new EU Bathing Water Directive and add value to the local economy through increased tourism visits based on year round clean seas.

SAS also learnt, that of those deputies seeking re-election only 42% support improved sewage treatment and more worryingly only 28% would categorically support full sewage treatment. SAS therefore believe that if the electorate wants to see improved sewage treatment they'll have to put their faith in a majority of new deputies rather than rely on the old guard. (SAS would refer the electorate to check the complete survey findings to see which current deputies will continue to support sewage treatment improvements).

Candidates in Vale district were found to be the most supportive of improved sewage treatment (66%), whilst candidates in the South East district were found to be the least supportive of seeing sewage treatment improvements (45%).

Richard Hardy, SAS Campaigns Director says: "This election provides a golden opportunity for the electorate to vote in candidates committed to ending the dumping of raw sewage into the sea off Guernsey. It's been over 10 years since the States recommended updating the sewerage infrastructure and move away from a woefully inadequate system that you would normally only find in the poorest countries of the world. Yet they've consistently failed to do this despite updated reports and numerous voting occasions. As more and more people head to the coast to enjoy bathing and recreational watersport, SAS predict many could turn their back on what Guernsey has to offer unless it makes radical changes. If that were to be the case SAS would be the first to shout about the improvements made to the sewerage infrastructure"!

Abbreviations

Supports a full sewage treatment clean up!
Shows some support in improving the situation
Does not support an improvement in sewage treatment! (includes those failing to respond to questionnaire)

District and Candidate	Q1 Do you believe the current system of dumping all Guernsey's sewage at sea each day to be UNSATISFACTORY?	Q2 Do you support raising the level of sewage treatment in Guernsey to create cleaner, safer recreational water?	Q3 Will you support a year round, full (tertiary level) sewage treatment policy as used in popular seaside resorts such as Jersey?	SAS RATING
St Peter Port South
Allister Langlois	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Keith Wilen	Yes	Yes	Don't Know
Barry Brehaut	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stephen Brooks	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jan Kuttelwascher	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter Burtenshaw	?	?	?
Jennifer Tasker	?	?	?
Carla McNulty Bauer	?	?	?
Anthony Webber	Yes	Yes	Yes
Richard Whitford	?	?	?
Susan Cotterill	?	?	?
Roger Domaille	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Matthew Waterman	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
St Peter Port North
Robert Matthews	Yes	Yes	Don't Know
Michael Collins	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Jack Honeybill	?	?	?
Roy Bisson	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stephen Le Prevost	?	?	?
Carol Steere	Yes	Yes	Yes
Roy Gallienne	?	?	?
John Gollop	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anthony Walkington	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lester Queripel	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wendy Morgan	Yes	Yes	Yes
Martin Storey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rosemarie Henderson	?	?	?
Peter Wilson	Yes	Yes	Yes
St Sampson
David Cranch	Yes	Yes	Yes
Brian Harris	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tania Stephens	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Robert Broome	?	?	?
Glen Smith	?	?	?
Andrew Barham	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter Gillson	?	?	?
Lyndon Trott	?	?	?
Ivan Rihoy	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scott Ogier	?	?	?
Samantha Maindonald	?	?	?
Andrew Bichard	Yes	Yes	Yes
John Duquemin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vale
Mary Lowe	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lee Van Katwyk	Yes	Yes	Yes
Brian De Jersey	?	?	?
Andrew Le Lievre	?	?	?
Matthew Fallaize	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anthony Spruce	?	?	?
Geoffrey Mahy	Yes	Yes	Yes
David Jones	?	?	?
Graham Guile	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Laurie Queripel	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter Du Port	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter Leigh	Yes	Yes	Yes
Castel
Bernard Flouquet	?	?	?
Barry Paint	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mark Dorey	?	?	?
Thomas Le Pelley	Yes	Yes	No
Sean McManus	?	?	?
Alexander Adam	No	Yes	Yes
Gillian Tidd	?	?	?
Jean Knight	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gordon Young	?	?	?
Jo-Anne Spinks	Yes	Yes	Don't Know
Michael Garrett	Yes	Yes	Yes
Keith Tostevin	No	No	No
West
David De Lisle	Yes	Yes	Yes
Paul Domaille	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alvord Brouard	Comments received	Comments received	Comments received
Gloria Dudley-Owen	?	?	?
Joanna Byrom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter Sirett	?	?	?
Marc Laine	?	?	?
Shane Langlois	Yes	Yes	Yes
David Gorval	?	?	?
Leonard Le Noury	Yes	Yes	Yes
Arrun Wilkie	?	?	?
Robert Plumley	?	?	?
The South East
Lorraine Marson	Yes	Yes	Yes
Janine Le Sauvage	Yes	Yes	Yes
Michael Hadley	?	?	?
Michael O'Hara	?	?	?
Charles Parkinson	Yes	Yes	Yes
Robert Sillars	Yes	Yes	Yes
Francis Quinn	?	?	?
Ivan Roberts	?	?	?
Raymond Corbin	?	?	?
Vanessa Crispini-Adams	?	?	?
Robert Gregson	Yes	Yes	Yes

Notes for Editors:

The full details of the survey can be found at www.sas.org.uk

The following candidates support an improvement in sewage treatment and/or full tertiary level sewage treatment:

Allister Langlois, Keith Wilen, Steve Brooks, Jan Kuttelwascher, Tony Webber, Roger Domaille, Matthew Waterman, Robert Matthews, Mike Collins, Roy Bisson, Carol Steere, Anthony Walkington, Lester Queripel, Wendy Morgan, Martin Storey, Peter Wilson, David Cranch, Brian Harris, Tania (Jane) Stephens, Andrew Barham, Ivan Rihoy, Andy Bichard, John Duquemin, Mary Lowe, Lee Van Katwyk, Matthew Fallaize, Geoffrey Mahy, Graham Guile, Laurie Queripel, Peter Duport, Peter Leigh, Barry Paint, Tom Le Pelley, Alexander Adam, Jean Knight, Jo Spinks, Micheal Garrett, David De Lisle, Paul Domaille, Al Brouard, Mimi Byrom, Shane Langlois, Nara Le Noury, Lorraine Marson, Janine Le Sauvage, Charles Parkinson, Robert Sillars, Robert Gregson.

Not all candidates responded to the survey and those that failed to respond where counted as not supporting sewage treatment improvements. In total 49 out of the 87 (56%) candidates responded to the survey.

Proportion of Election Candidates supporting sewage treatment improvements by District are:

St Peter Port South: 54%
St Peter Port North: 64%
St Sampson: 54%
Vale: 66%
Castel: 50%
West: 50%
The South East: 45%

Polling Day is Wednesday 23rd April.

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