http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/11/economy_threatens_londons_gree.html en-gb 30 Thu 17 Dec 2009 15:54:14 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/11/economy_threatens_londons_gree.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/11/economy_threatens_londons_gree.html?page=10#comment1 champon832, you suggest I am working with the ODA on this. I'm a BBC journalist so I don't take sides on any story. I would like to talk to you in detail about your views on this. Can I email you please? Tue 11 Nov 2008 17:36:45 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/11/economy_threatens_londons_gree.html?page=0#comment0 Interesting article, but you need to get your facts right. "After years of being neglected, these rivers are finally being upgraded" is a very inaccurate portrayal of the state of the River Lea system.British Waterways have been looking after this river network for many years now and it was already very possible and common to take boat trips around this stretch of river.In addition to this, in partnership with a charitable organisation called the Lea Rivers Trust, many waterway management, biodiversity and community involvement projects have been carried out on this stretch of the waterways proceeding the Olympic development. Projects included creating amenity greenspaces, provision of nesting sites for a variety of birds, invertebrate habitat creation, control of invasive species and the planting of many native trees.The Olympic development has destroyed all of these project sites and instead of naturalised channels is creating concrete culverts (as demonstrated very accurately in the image you chose to use in the article) which very much contradict the environmental and sustainable development image you and the ODA are trying to portray for the site. Tue 11 Nov 2008 15:08:50 GMT+1