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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Animal rights campaigners are urging Michael Gove to stop the construction of the UK’s first fully on-land salmon farm, claiming the decision to give it planning permission was flawed.
Animal Equality says an environmental impact assessment (EIA) should have been carried out before North East Lincolnshire council (NELC) gave the green light to the salmon farm in Cleethorpes, which it says would be the world’s biggest at land or sea.
While government guidance says each case should be judged on its merits, it states that the indicative threshold for an EIA to be appropriate is where a farm is designed to produce more than 100 tonnes of fish a year.
The Aquacultured Seafood Ltd development aims to produce 5,000 tonnes of fish a year, but was deemed “unlikely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of factors such as its nature, size or location”.
A legal letter, sent to Gove and NELC by Advocates for Animals on behalf of the charity, says: “Due to the scale of the project, the uniqueness of it, the location and risks to the local wildlife, the impact of any malfunction, or indeed any unforeseen circumstances, has the potential to be huge and complex.
The charity’s executive director, Abigail Penny, said: “Given the abundant uncertainties and obvious risks, it is scandalous that the committee has allowed the application to get this far, let alone to have given it the green light.
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