Action on climate emergency
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 …
Drax will raise carbon emissions as thousands marched in London yesterday demanding action on polluted water. The Guardian reported earlier today that Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire, will keep raising the levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere until the 2050s despite using carbon capture technology, according to scientific research. An earlier study …
Crunch time for climate says UN as a massive global mobilisation of renewable energy, forest protection and other measures is needed to prevent the world reaching a catastrophic temperature rise of 3.1C, a report from the UN environment programme (Unep) has found. It says that current carbon-cutting promises by countries for 2030 are not being …
Burning household rubbish a “disaster for the climate” the BBC reports having just released a major investigation into incineration. It found that nearly half of the rubbish produced in UK homes, including increasing amounts of plastic, is now being incinerated. Scientists warn it is a “disaster for the climate” – and some are calling for a …