A SENATORIAL candidate has announced that he is standing to address the issue of ‘runaway climate change’.
Mark Forskitt (47), from St Ouen, will stand as part of the political group Jersey 2020 in a bid to address environmental issues. The software developer, who also runs the family painting and decorating business, said that open spaces and the agricultural landscape of the Island had to be protected at all costs.
He added: ‘The Island that gave the world the Royal potato, the Jersey cow and the world-beating Durrell has a lot of credibility in talking, growing and conserving. Developed properly, we could organise the information, the skills and the training to offer the world the chance to learn what we have done and how they can do it too in a local, sustainable way.’
Mr Forskitt joins Daniel Wimberley and Nick Palmer to form the informal group Jersey 2020, which is not a party and has no officers or funds. The three will be standing on the same environmental ticket at the Senatorial election on 15 October. They believe that runaway climate change is the most serious issue facing Islanders today.
