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Yet another E-petition I'm afraid, they are being legistlated against for the work they do with mercury based instruments.
Link here
Please sign.
Link here
Please sign.
Russel Scientific said:
Directive 2007/51/EC, Council Directive 76/769/EEC restrictions on
marketing of certain devices containing mercury.
I am sending this email to everyone in our mail address book and
apologise for not addressing you personally.
I ask a favour of you all to help our cause. One of my staff who is
passionate about her and her colleagues jobs and keeping a
traditional craft alive, has set up a petition to get the UK
government to try and save our specialist company. We have
manufactured and repaired instruments containing mercury for the last
150years but due to ill-informed EU bureaucrats, laws are being passed
to stop us. Our skills are used worldwide and our glassblower is
possibly the last one with stocks of glass and the expertise to blow
an accurate replacement, working thermometer to an existing scale.
Who will be left with expertise to handle and repair mercury based
instruments if we are stopped? All we ask you to do is click onto this
hyperlink, register with the UK government at No 10 and put your
name to out petition. If we can get 900 names by the end of next week,
the government might listen to us and fight our case against the
bureaucrats of Brussels. Surely the government is fighting to save
jobs and not increasing the unemployment figures!
Our products are needed worldwide whether they are in temperature
measurement to 0.01ºC, barometric pressure to 0.1millibar or engine
saving capsize switches for the RNLI.
The mercury we use is all from recycled sources and we also offer a
service to take in mercury to prevent it from being dumped in
landfill. Now however, the powers that be, want to stop us but on the
other hand they are asking all of us to change from ordinary light
bulbs to new "low energy" version which contain mercury vapour! Do
they warn you of this on the packaging and that you should dispose of
them at your nearest recycling centre when they stop working or get
broken!? NO!
All they say in their publicity is that electricity costs are lower.
Who is the biggest user of mercury in the EU? The chlor-alkali
production (industrial users and power stations)! To give you an
example, we use 200kg per year, the C-A and light bulb sources 200
tonnes per year.
The last thing we all want to be doing is stacking shelves in
supermarkets with low energy light bulbs.
Kind Regards
Edward Allen
Managing Director
marketing of certain devices containing mercury.
I am sending this email to everyone in our mail address book and
apologise for not addressing you personally.
I ask a favour of you all to help our cause. One of my staff who is
passionate about her and her colleagues jobs and keeping a
traditional craft alive, has set up a petition to get the UK
government to try and save our specialist company. We have
manufactured and repaired instruments containing mercury for the last
150years but due to ill-informed EU bureaucrats, laws are being passed
to stop us. Our skills are used worldwide and our glassblower is
possibly the last one with stocks of glass and the expertise to blow
an accurate replacement, working thermometer to an existing scale.
Who will be left with expertise to handle and repair mercury based
instruments if we are stopped? All we ask you to do is click onto this
hyperlink, register with the UK government at No 10 and put your
name to out petition. If we can get 900 names by the end of next week,
the government might listen to us and fight our case against the
bureaucrats of Brussels. Surely the government is fighting to save
jobs and not increasing the unemployment figures!
Our products are needed worldwide whether they are in temperature
measurement to 0.01ºC, barometric pressure to 0.1millibar or engine
saving capsize switches for the RNLI.
The mercury we use is all from recycled sources and we also offer a
service to take in mercury to prevent it from being dumped in
landfill. Now however, the powers that be, want to stop us but on the
other hand they are asking all of us to change from ordinary light
bulbs to new "low energy" version which contain mercury vapour! Do
they warn you of this on the packaging and that you should dispose of
them at your nearest recycling centre when they stop working or get
broken!? NO!
All they say in their publicity is that electricity costs are lower.
Who is the biggest user of mercury in the EU? The chlor-alkali
production (industrial users and power stations)! To give you an
example, we use 200kg per year, the C-A and light bulb sources 200
tonnes per year.
The last thing we all want to be doing is stacking shelves in
supermarkets with low energy light bulbs.
Kind Regards
Edward Allen
Managing Director
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