As far as I can tell from Twitter #GaggingBill, the House of Commons is still debating the so-called “Transparency of Lobbying Bill” that will gag all kinds of groups and Trade Unions.
I’ve just tweeted Craig Whittaker MP to vote against it.
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Can anyone tell me what this tree is called (not as in, Ella or Alfred, but its tree name).
In July I wandered round the Mytholm Works site and took several photos of it, so that I could identify its name from my tree book. But I didn’t manage to identify it. It has many trunks, if that’s any help.
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Myra James, a member of Incredible Edible Mytholm’s management committee, reviews Simon Cunich’s film Growing Change: a journey inside Venezuela’s food revolution. Venezuela is one of only a handful of countries that have made food sovereignty a national policy.
The screening in the Unitarian Church, Todmorden on Sunday 1st September 2013 was jointly hosted by Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET) and the recently re-launched Calderdale branch of the World Development Movement (WDM).
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This World Development Movement (WDM) video explains how food price speculation is increasing and has thrown millions into poverty, and that government regulation is essential to stop this. They are proposing “position limits” – limits that cap the proportion of commodity markets that speculators can hold.
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At the end of July Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker asked the question, What next for privatised walk-in GP centres in Tod and Halifax?
On behalf of NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), West and South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit has now replied to my Freedom of Information request about the saga with Care UK over the contract to run the two privatised GP walk-in centres.
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16 year olds who’ve just had their GCSE results and are wondering what to do next might be interested in following up the idea that the UK could see the creation of up to 40K new jobs in forestry and in primary wood processing (work in timber haulage, sawmills, pulp mills and wood based panel mills).
This prediction is made in the recently-published report, Zero Carbon Britain – Rethinking the Future (ZCB RTF), from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
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Who knew fracking would suck Texas aquifers dry? As the town well in a Texas town dries out in a time of drought, the townspeople – no enemies to the oil companies that power the Texas economy – are bitter about the corporate greed that’s sucked the water from local aquifers, and they are hurting.
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A Calderdale Green Party survey of Calderdale Councillors’ and MPs’ views on fracking has found that some Labour and Liberal Democrat Calderdale Councillors are prepared to oppose fracking at both the national and local levels.
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Calderdale Green Party is hosting a Public Meeting in Hebden Bridge Town Hall on Tuesday 10th September, 7.30pm, to explain its policy that fracking isn’t necessary or desirable.
The speaker is Kirklees Green Party Councillor Andrew Cooper.
Andrew is also the Green Party lead candidate for the Yorkshire and Humber region in the European Elections 2014 and the national party’s Energy spokesperson.
(Header photo credit: Green Party)