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On Sunday August 12th, flood-hit residents of Hebden Bridge and campaigners from across the country will set out from St George’s Square in the town centre on a BAN THE BURN protest walk to the Walshaw Moor grouse-shooting estate. Following the walk, at 6pm the BAN THE BURN national campaign launch will take place at Hebden Bridge Trades Club.
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Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd (WME) is to receive a publicly-funded subsidy payment of £2,504,668.08, over the 10 year period of its Environmental Stewardship Agreement with Natural England. Starting from June 2012, the Agreement -Number AG00410821 – covers 3,486.1 hectares and commits WME to carrying out a range of environmental management measures.
From Natural England website
Why is Natural England allowing WME to burn blanket bog, when the Burning Code strongly advocates a ban on burning this habitat?
The Information Commissioner recently published guidelines on the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004 that make it clear that the “default” position for public authorities and private companies is that they are legally obliged to provide environmental information that journalists ask for.
EIR is the equivalent to the Freedom of Information Act, and it applies, as the name suggests, to requests for information about environmental issues.
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Jefferson Sheard Architects graphic_Sustainable Environmental Technologies Centre
Calderdale College commissioned Jefferson Sheard Architects to design a Sustainable Environmental Technologies Centre. Building work started in 2012 and the Centre is due to open in September 2013.
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As thanks to Keith, who developed the free WordPress Stop Spammers Registration plug-in that I’ve just installed, here’s a link to his Beekeeping Blog.
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People were keenly interested in the launch of two new electric vehicle hire schemes in St George’s Square today. Ride+electric assist bikes for hire Electric bike hire is now available in the Calder Valley, from Hebden Bridge Alternative Technology Centre. … Continue reading
This glossary explains Green Deal and Green Deal finance terms used in the post, Green Deal: a public private partnership too far
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The blanket bog on Walshaw Moor is very degraded and species-poor. So here are photos of healthy blanket bog and some of its key plant species. This is how Walshaw Moor should be. It badly needs restoration. (If you’d like … Continue reading
The Energy Bill Revolution team has emailed to say:
“153 MPs have shown their support for our campaign for warm homes and lower bills – making it the second most successful parliamentary motion that MPs have signed up to during this session of parliament. This is fantastic progress. Thank you for helping to make this happen!
Went for a walk to Heather Hill on Widdop Moor/Walshaw Moor to find out what blanket bog looks like, since I’ve been hearing quite a lot about it recently.
We couldn’t find very much, because most of it was very degraded. And what there we did find was very species poor. But the photo below shows a small patch we came across.