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Developments are necessary to provide homes, facilities and jobs for us and so are to be welcomed. The companies involved make sure that developments deliver what they should for owners, buyers and customers. The various different regulators make sure that our commons are protected. They can only do their job if they know what going on. So if you feel something is wrong with a development or spot something that isn't being done as it should be or an incident - environmental, nature, safety, pollution, then report it. If you spot a company or a public department going above and beyond to help the environment, then tell your local media, post on social media and tell your representatives that this is how it should be done.
Development and Environment
This site was developed to bring together information around the die-offs in the marine environment around the River Tees.
It turned out the River Tees is not necessarily unique, as many of the challenges to the environment that are experienced on the River Tees happen at other places around the UK and even around the world.
In order to understand what the challenges to the environment are and how they occur it has been necessary to understand how a port like the River Tees work, how the navigation channels are maintained, how material is disposed of at sea, what marine licenses are necessary.
However, the challenges come not just from the activities on the river, but also from the development alongside the river. So it is also necessary to understand the planning process and specifically all about ground contamination.
Topics
Autumn 2021 Crab Die-off
River Tees Die-off Chronology
Dredging
Teesworks
North East Marine Research Group
An analysis of the crab die off and the environmental risks of Teesworks
Reclaim our Sea Facebook Group
North East Fishing Collective Facebook Group
Mystery of the Teesside Crab Deaths: Algal bloom or preventable cover up? - Webinar November 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Details
The Developments
Teesworks - South Tees Site - Freeport
Teesworks - South Tees Planning Applications
Teesworks - Timeline of groundworks including prior to October 2021
Teesside Infrastructure Planning Inspectorate
N.B. many documents are large either due to the amount of information within or because they have been produced for publicity containing high resolution photography.
The Environment
Mass Marine Mortality Events - Summary
1999 - Tees Estuary Present & Future - Environment Agency Report
The North East File Collection
This website is designed to provide open access to information around major developments happening in the North of England, so that people are able to engage with what is happening in our neighbourhood, to our environment and often with our money.
The site is not designed to be pretty, but to make the information accessible in a form it is not currently, as such the site will soon provide Google search access, which is not possible on the original sites as the documents are held within a variety of document management systems. In order to aid accessibility in some cases hyperlinks between documents or to other content has been inserted - if you have any problems then please refer to original source to check issues.
Please respect the copyright of all documents on this site, this site can take no responsibility for any use outside that legally required of the copyright holder to allow public oversight of major developments. Please refer to the original site for definitive and potentially updated versions.
Please email simonrg@northeastfc.uk if you spot any areas where newer documents are now available.
The documents should only be used for your oversight of the developments which they document and for which they were originally made available.
Why Does This Matter To You
Find the facts so you can ask the right questions to be able to answer the questions that matter and campaign to enhance our world:
30th September 2022 Channel 4 - What's killing marine life in the North East of England?
27th July 2023 - Mass Marine Die-offs: Searching for the Cause of These Events in Northeast England - Dr Gary Caldwell