This looks like an amazing community hydro scheme – harnessing the “compensation water” that flows continuously out of the Dovestone Reservoir into Chew Brook, to feed enough power into the National Grid to heat and light around 70 homes.
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Today in St George’s Square, people showed a lively interest in signing Incredible Edible Mytholm’s petition asking Calderdale Planning Committee to refuse the supermarket and hotel planning application for the Mytholm Works site on King Street, Hebden Bridge.
To date, just over 300 people have signed the petition.
If you haven’t signed yet, but would like to, the online petition will stay live until 5pm on Sunday 1st December. Here’s the link to the online petition: Click here
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Calderdale Council’s Green Economy Review Group invites businesses and community groups to a drop-in session to talk about their views on saving energy in Calderdale.
The drop in session is at Halifax Town Hall on Wednesday, December 4 between 10am and 1pm
Cllr Scott Benton, Chair of Calderdale Council’s Economy and Environment Scrutiny Panel said that businesses and community groups’ views on energy saving will feed in valuable information to help plan for the future.
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The public is badly misinformed about the monetary system, government deficits and national debt.
The truth about these issues is child’s play in the Colouring Book by Dr Stephanie Kelton, an economist at University of Kansas-Missouri. Continue reading
Heptonstall writer and journalism lecturer Amy Binns has just published Valley of a Hundred Chapels. This local history reveals how centuries of interwoven religious and political dissent sprang from people’s refusal to worship in the way the government told them to.
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The Energy Bill Revolution is a campaign to make energy bills affordable to all, through the UK government recycling carbon taxes into insulating people’s homes. This will make homes warmer so people have to use less energy to heat them. It would bring nine out of ten fuel-poor households out of fuel poverty, cut carbon emissions and create jobs.
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Calderdale Protest Against the Bedroom Tax campaigners were “gobsmacked” at some of the information they received, when they asked Calderdale Council what it was doing to oppose the Bedroom Tax and support people suffering under it.
This was what a full Council meeting had committed to on April 24th 2013.
Answering the campaigners’ questions at the full Council meeting on 27th November, Councillor Swift said that around 1200 households in Calderdale are liable for bedroom tax.
At a public meeting on 3rd December in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Shan Oakes – one of the Green Party’s Prospective European Parliamentary Candidates for Yorkshire & Humber – will speak on Fighting for Fairness: from Local to Global.
All are welcome at the 7.30pm meeting in the HB Town Hall Terrace Room. Calderdale Green Party is organising the meeting.
People who are attending the Planning Committee meeting at 6pm in Halifax Town Hall may be able to get back to Hebden Bridge in time for this meeting, if they’re so inclined.
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Since Incredible Edible Mytholm created its online Petition yesterday, people have been emailing questions and comments to the IEM Secretary.
Here is a kind of generic response to commonly raised questions and comments about petition.
Thanks for your questions and comments, hope this helps with the discussion.
Incredible Edible Mytholm AGM on 25th November discussed the Chair’s 2013 Annual report and noted the Statement of Accounts. (If you’d like to sign the Petition referred to in the Annual Report, you can do so online, or sign the copy that’s behind the bar in the Fox & Goose. Deadline for signing the Petition is 3pm, Sunday 1st Dec.)
The AGM also elected the Management Committee for the following year – or at least up to the point when IEM migrates to being a Community Benefit Society and Development Trust, scheduled to happen in March/April 2014 if things go according to plan.
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