UWA Environmental Strategy Snowed Under

Over the last four months, an Environmental Strategy working group has been plodding away with developing an environmental strategy for the university. This group comprises one of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors (Dr. John Harries), the Head of House Services (Alan Stephens), Head of Estates Management (Mike Tipping), the Procurement Manager (Mike Smith) and the Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor (Dr. Andrew Walker) and the draft strategy was due to be presented to the university's Health, Safety and Environment committee meeting today.

Unfortunately, the snowfall two weeks ago meant that the group was unable to meet to finalize their draft, and thus the strategy will not be presented until the next HSE committee meeting on June 6, 2007. When we last wrote to the Vice-Chancellor (at the beginning of the month), we expressed our hope that current students (and staff) would be able to contribute to this strategy becoming policy, and so I really do hope that this will take place before the end of the academic year. More to be posted as I hear about concrete developments.