ADD YOUR NAME TO PROTECT THIRSK GREEN SPACE & TOWN-CENTRE JOBS

CEOs M&S, Costa Coffee/Coca-Cola and McDonald's

The proposed BP service station in ‘countryside' at the edge of our lovely market town in North Yorkshire will swallow up a big chunk of important green space. It will suck trade out of the town centre, threaten a ‘highly vulnerable’ aquifer, concrete over a potentially valuable heritage site, tear out nearly 400 metres of mature hedgerow – all within 180 metres of a conservation area and an ecologically rich green corridor. That’s before we even talk about climate change!

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BP's partners - M&S, Costa/Coca-Cola and McDonald’s - all say they are very concerned about the environment and the climate. Now’s their chance to prove it by withdrawing from this tie-up with the world’s sixth-biggest fossil fuel polluter (and from any other projects they may be planning with BP elsewhere in the UK) and take up vacant premises in the town centre instead.                                                                                                          

We need to protect the people and places of our lovely market town.

BP’s partners need to protect their reputations.

Sign today to help put a stop to this environmentally damaging proposal.

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For further details visit www.thirskfoe.org/bpproposal. Thank you for your support.

                                                                               

To: CEOs M&S, Costa Coffee/Coca-Cola and McDonald's
From: [Your Name]

Dear CEOs
First off, we’d like to acknowledge that your companies have made some important steps towards operating more sustainably and protecting the climate. So we’re amazed to see you teaming up with the world’s sixth-biggest fossil fuel polluter BP to build a new service station on the edge of Thirsk in North Yorkshire. In case you didn’t know:
-the proposed site is a designated green space on a highly vulnerable aquifer with a risk of contaminants from the petrol station polluting the groundwater
-it’s just 180 metres from our beautiful river and a conservation area
-it risks sucking business away from our town centre at a time when local independent traders are already struggling from the pandemic
-the development would rip out nearly 400 metres of mature hedgerows
-BP expects to sell 7.5 million litres of fuel per year at the proposed filling station (generating 17-20 thousand metric tonnes of climate-damaging CO2).
This is NOT the way forward for reputable companies such as yours. Please withdraw immediately from this project (and from any other tie-ups with BP that you might be considering elsewhere in the UK). Come and take up vacant premises in the town centre instead.
Kind regards
Thirsk Friends of the Earth