Two recent Survation public opinion polls for the Mail on Sunday have generated contradictory data about public support for “green taxes” and other government policies that add charges to people’s energy bills.
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Calderdale Council recently held a conference to promote its Calderdale Energy Future policy. This aims to radically reduce the area’s carbon emissions, in order to help reduce climate change caused by burning fossil fuels.
Surely a good place for the Council to start is to switch to a renewable energy supplier for heating and lighting its buildings? I tweeted the Council leader Tim Swift:
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Community groups are losing Feed In Tariff (FIT) payments for their renewable energy installations, such as solar PV and wind turbines, because they have received Big Lottery Fund (BLF) grants.
Earlier this year, Pennine Community Power were in this position with their wind turbine and had to repay £8,800 to BLF, out of a £30,000 grant, in order to have their FIT payments reinstated.
Look what’s happening to the privatised energy sector –
Sometimes boycotts can play a part in bringing about social, political and economic change – years of boycotting apartheid South African fruit bore witness to that.
So how about boycotting energy companies that are prepared to sell fracked gas?
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Around 60% of the EU population is against fracking, according to European Commission data.
Presumably Members of the European Parliament would have taken this into account when they were due to vote on a proposal to amend the existing EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive, to take account of fracking.
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The Town Hall Terrace Room was full for the Calderdale Green Party public meeting on fracking, addressed by Kirklees Cllr, Andrew Cooper.
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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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