Aberdeen Climate Chaos
Rivers freeze over, the mercury plunges to minus 16ºC – but pavements still not gritted
HOSPITALS and emergency services have had to deal with a spate of injuries caused by falls due to councils failing to tackle ice-bound pavements, it has been claimed.
Some residents in Aberdeen have threatened to refuse to pay council tax in protest at a lack of gritting on the city's paths.
A council spokesman said crews were tackling priority areas around shops and sheltered housing. He said: "We have 19 pavement gritters out, which is the full complement. We are doing everything we can to clear the pavements.
Aberdeen has been busy preparing for years: Aberdeen was the first City in Scotland to produce a Climate Change Action Plan 2002. Just read all the self congratulatory documents they produce:
Aberdeen City Council’s Climate Change
Declaration Report 2009
They have 19 pavement gritters out and there are 19 partners in their Climate Change plan, coincidence? The suggestion that the fat-arsed climate change planners should leave their comfy offices and pick up a shovel to help deal with the snow and ice is of course unhelpful when they have a world to save.