Just got the following message from the Facebook group Keep Kuwait Green:
Friends, please come to the green rally on Saturday, December 5th from 10am to 11:30am. Wear green and support the peaceful cause to keep reasonable hedges and stop cutting down Kuwait’s trees. The Green Rally will be held in West Mishref, across from the Australian college facing the Mishref Fair Grounds. Bring the kids
Picture by Ramez
21 replies on “Green Rally”
Will be there!
couldn’t they find a location that could gain more publicity? I mean, after all, this rally is for promotional/awareness purposes. I don’t think I’ve even been around the third corner after the water cooler in front of the Australian college.
Rally for corruption and greed? Rally for ppl to extend their un-owned land?? Rally for the rich ppl to put fences and swimming pool on lands they claim their own and THEN get upset when the government removes them?!
WAKE UP PEOPLE! They are hiding behind the “Go Green” flag, they don’t care about the environment! They only want to expand their territory!
If they really did care about keeping kuwait green, they should be planting trees (not botanical fences) everywhere in their area.. NOT TO MARK THEIR BORDERS!
Noofa if you check the post is say the rally is for “keeping reasonable hedges and stop cutting down Kuwait’s trees”. It’s not in support of swimming pools or any other kind of illegal structure.
I think Noofa is a good example of how people in Kuwait are confusing two different things which are illegal structures and greenery. One is greed or whatever you want to call it (illegally built swimming pools, diwaniya’s, shacks, walls etc..) but the other is beautification (trees, plants, bushes, flowers etc..).
The two are very different things but both of which take place on government owned property. We all agree Illegal structures should be demolished but greenery should have different rules.
For example, someone mentioned a neighbor planted hedges around a corner which resulted in him getting into an accident when he didn’t see a car coming due to the hedges being to tal. Well a rule could come into place which says hedges should not be more then half a meter tall for example. Maybe some plants that consume a lot of water be made illegal to plant. That way people can help beautify Kuwait but they have rules they need to follow.
If you are going to protest against some institution shouldn’t you do it in front of there HQ ?
I guess some people don’t know where the Baladiya HQ is….
Inshallah will be there 🙂
With you Noofa…
Anything on Government grounds should be dealt with by the government and not left to the general public to perform their artistic efforts or express their “Yalla, lets go Green” intentions.
Green Rally is dedicated to “هيئة الزراعة و الثروة السمكية” to try to keep up with our expectations of a greener kuwait
and Good Job Baladiya,
So the baldiya HQ is in mishref?
I just don’t get why people don’t understand and respect the importance of trees and the environment in general. This doesn’t have anything to do with swimming pools, diwaniyas, or greed for that matter. If people are caring and smart enough to plant and take care of plant life that is a necessary part of the environment, why should anyone begrudge them? Actually, the government should be encouraging people to plant all of the trees possible. Does no one see the connection between the lack of greens and desertification and pollution? Trees and plants filter air and produce oxygen people. It has less to do with ‘artistry’ and more to do with ‘life’. It is time to wake up!
Thanks for using my pic 🙂
this issue started to be sucks
Now they r removing all the trees in Jabriya
sorry forgot to credit you! just updated the post.
mark they are not removing all the trees, our house is on a corner, they removed a couple of trees near the entrance because ” it was blocking view of the corner” but the rest was left alone and yes it’s a full fence, we just replanted them half a meter from the curb and they said it’s fine now. those who got the whole garden removed is those who made a huge back yard of it and added fountains and what not.
@ Noofa & KuwaitQ
logically kuwait is owned by us kuwaitis and the “un-owned land” is owned by every kuwaiti, and government grounds does not exist, they are manged by the government not owned. so planting a tree is not against the law, but building pools and diwaniyas is, yet if my neighbors are fine with me putting a diwaniya why should it be a problem if the land is not being used ?
who cares any more, our way of life is being controlled, no more gardening, no more diwaniya, no more shisha after 12, no more , no more till one day people will have enough of it and ……
hmm .. wear green .. what if some of my Egyptian friends would like to participate ?
Damn.I thought it was a march to legalize marijuana.Sigh
gargoyle,
you haven’t said anything new…
but i do have empathy on the Shisha law… thats a bummer even though I don’t smoke myself!
Dear All,
The picture posted regarding this issue says it all. The home owner has built an illegal shed on government land and has concealed it with trees. The home owner didn’t plant the tress for the love of trees, but to use the shed and make it seem like its private property. That is very illegal and very uncivil and that is why the government is taking action. NOT because it has an issue with trees!
Furthermore, there are Municipality (Baladiya) laws regarding planting trees and shrubs outside private property which requires prior approval by home owners specifically for each land.
Unfortunately, people are confusing issues by not understanding the core principle.
Finally gargoyle, non private land is NOT owned by Kuwaitis (although I wish it was), but is owned and managed by the government. I wonder what your source of information is!
@Mark
I’m not confusing the issue here. The people behind The Green Rally in West Mishref have swimming pools in their “un-owned” land! Ironically it was shown on TV on “taw il lail” when their reps were interviewied.. I’m all for going green.. not going “greed”.
@buziad
THANK YOU! My point exactly!
@gargoyle
I know for a fact that unowned lands are OWNED by some party or another, whether it be MEW or MOC or KOC or whatever. I’ve dealt through my work at some level with those legalities, because it MIGHT seem that the land is not used, but in fact it IS used: major fuel lines, telecommunication cables, telemetry cables (my specialty), and various sewage/brackish/fresh water pipes and valves, even flowmeteres and so on !
I’ve seen on one or more occasions where a guy is building his dewaneyya or his private amusement park near his home and cutting the damned cables (grrr) or hitting a pipeline or what not.
And legally speaking, on some sides of major roads, like road 40 /Ahmadi or road 95/Sabiya, you MUST have a permit to excavate in the vicinity, because some fuel lines are there underground and FO cables which belong to KOC and other authorities.
So please, don’t propagandize a baseless information.
I support Green, but I support a more civilized way of living even more. In my belief, the Baladiya should MAKE whoever is in “sin”, to compensate whatever they remove by making him plant some trees in a more “proper” area. Long live the trees 🙂
how did the rally go?