Over the weekend, Calder Valley again suffered horrendous flooding – the fourth in eight years. When Ban the Burn heard that Theresa Villiers, the Defra Sec of State, would be doing a walkabout in central Mytholmroyd on Wednesday between 9am … Continue reading
Ban the Burn was one of 17 groups across Yorkshire that took part in Yorkshire Water Day of Action on 25th May, organised by StopThe Shoot. People queued up at the Ban the Burn stall in St George’s Square to … Continue reading
Hebden Bridge people will gather in St Georges Square at 9am on 12th and 13th August to protest the not-so-glorious 12th August, traditionally the start of the grouse shooting season. It is widely accepted that mismanagement of the Walshaw Moor … Continue reading
Following the EU Referendum vote, Linda McAvan MEP has said it’s unclear what effect the vote for the UK to leave the EU is going to have on the EU Commission’s pursuit of the Ban the Burn complaint about the … Continue reading
Here is a reason to remain in the EU – the European Commission has started a legal process against the UK government for:
Joking that he felt like an old-time hell-fire preacher speaking from the pulpit of Hope Baptist Church, George Monbiot instead brought a vision of hope to the packed audience yesterday at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. Launching a national rewilding group … Continue reading
Ban the Burn protesters, bearing mops and buckets, visited the Head Office of Natural England this morning to deliver a clear message- DON’T FUND FLOODING – only to find that Natural England had advised staff to stay away from the … Continue reading
Welcome to the Environment & food homepage. This Environment & Food bit of Plain Speaker includes: Upper Calder Valley environmental groups & businesses directory Environment news & features Incredible Edible Mytholm Ban the Burn If you have environment and food … Continue reading
George Monbiot’s Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding is worth dipping into – unless you are one of those bourgeois escapists whom Steven Poole’s recent Guardian Review article identified as the likely readership for this genre of nature … Continue reading
The most popular stories on Changing More Than Lightbulbs over the last 28 days have been: Hebden Bridge Matters…To Hibu/Yell Ltd. This is a real surprise – it’s consistently been in the top ten stories for the last three months, … Continue reading