Action on climate emergency
A deep peat burning ban is coming into force attendees of Saturday’s ACE Green Café meeting in Settle learnt. The meeting heard that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will ban the burning on England’s deep peat so as to restore habitats for rare wildlife and reduce air pollution and flooding. England’s …
Cumbria mine developers seek compensation when we all thought the Woodhouse coalmine near Whitehaven had been confined to the dustbin of history. Well not quite, as on 11 August The Guardian reported that the government is being sued in a secretive “corporate court” despite the proposed new coalmine in Cumbria being quashed by the high …
Boost for onshore wind as the government has launched major onshore wind plan to reverse near decade of sector stagnation in England. It aims to boost its aim to become a clean energy superpower and protect households from global gas price spikes. It also introduces measures to revitalise industry by unlocking up to 45,000 jobs …
No more licence to spill as action against water companies has stepped up with Yorkshire Water being fined £350,000 after a watercourse was polluted with sewage. The spillage happened at Foss Dike, near York, in March 2018 close to a faulty pumping station the company knew was broken, the Environment Agency has said. It was …
HS2 bat tunnel is more to the fore of environmental protections then you might think. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) now before parliament which has been framed as the solution to an inefficient planning system supposedly held back by excessive environmental regulations, the HS2 bat tunnel included. But is the real story different? Exactly …
EV charging rollout, is predicated on the Government overcoming delays. A recent report published by the public accounts committee (PAC) reveals that the rollout of electric vehicle (EV) chargers across Britain is “patchy”, behind deadline and ignores the needs of disabled drivers. The parliamentary committee warned that the charging points needed to give drivers’ confidence …
Housing over the environment? Is a question posed by the publication last week by the government of an 82-page National Planning Policy Framework report outlining what it hopes to do – and how. It is subject to publicconsultation, but there are serious concerns that housing will take priority over nature and the environment, The Guardian reports. Changes …
Children’s woodland to be destroyed as Harrogate Spring Water, owned by the multinational Danone, is planning to cut down a wood planted by schoolchildren in order to expand its bottling factory in Harrogate. Almost 20 years ago two primary schools, along with other local volunteers, helped to plant 450 trees in a project aimed at …
Money for the right trees and place is the key message in a report that urges that public money should be spent on native forests with greater biodiversity benefits. Just how much money is spent in support for woodlands and is the money well spent? After all public money has been supporting woodlands for over …
Plastic Free at Christmas is one of the campaigns of local action group Plastic Free Settle. This comes in the same week as a UN conference on a proposed treaty to tackle plastic pollution failed to reach agreement despite representatives of 200 nations meeting in Busan, South Korea. Settle’s Plastic Free Group is working on …