Written in 2012, updated in 2013 and now re-posted. Sorry comments have been lost in the process. Calderdale’s Energy Future (CEF) strategy expects householders to cut 25% of their carbon emissions by 2020, based on 2005 levels. To achieve this target, … Continue reading
The House of Commons Select Committee on Energy & Climate Change recently reported that the Green Deal has so far been a disappointing failure and its effects on reducing carbon emissions has been negligible. The Green Deal, which got off … Continue reading
On Sunday 21st September, Save Calderdale Hospital and Huddersfield Keep Our NHS Public campaigners went to lobby the Labour Party Conference to adopt a resolution to restore the NHS. But the Labour Conference Arrangements Committee ruled the resolution out of … Continue reading
Corporate-influenced climate change is an unforeseen consequence of the industrial revolution, which used carbon-based fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) to replace human, animal and renewable energy in order to mechanise farming, manufacturing, transport, housework, entertainment and just about any human … Continue reading
Organised by the Source, there is a public presentation on water and land management in the Upper Calder Valley on Tuesday 23rd September 2014, Waterside Room, Hebden Bridge Town Hall – 7pm – 9pm. The speakers are Robin Gray (Pennine … Continue reading
The Taylor Wimpey exhibition of plans for 149 new houses in Copley Valley was open to the public for one day last week. This was to allow the public to see the plans that will make up the detailed planning … Continue reading
Walk for the NHS set off from Calderdale Royal Hospital on Friday 22nd August, arrived at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary around midday and after a rally in George Square Huddersfield, carried on to Dewsbury District Hospital. We arrived in the early … Continue reading
Everyone is welcome to the NHS 66th birthday party at Mytholmroyd Gala on 5th July. The fun starts on the Burnley Road playing field at 1pm with the opening ceremony and speeches and crowing the new Gala Queen! Jane Rendle, … Continue reading
Jeremy Hunt, listen up! Halifax loves the NHS – the people united will never be defeated! (Especially by a bunch of clowns) A brilliant crowd, made up of hundreds of people from babies to grannies, ambled through Halifax today to … Continue reading
Here is Ed Davey MP in a government propaganda video about the opening of facilities to handle the biomass Drax now imports, as it’s converting three of the six units at the power station from burning coal to burning biomass. … Continue reading