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All the time we are locked down, what Arundhati Roy calls the ‘doomsday machine that we have built’ goes roaring on. Global warming, with its cascades of disastrous consequences, is accelerating and hopes for a liveable planet becomes harder to hold on to. Unable to talk to people face to face, unable to organise any kind of gathering, what can we do? Well, the one thing we can do – unless we are working and/or have children at home – is to raise our voices via emails and letters. There are any number of earth destroying government and corporate projects going on that need us to raise an outcry. Here are a few of them:-
The Local Energy Bill
Action needed urgently. 20.05.2021
20 backbench MPs have been drawn in the Private Members’ Ballot to introduce a Bill of their choice. This type of Bill is known as a ‘Ballot Bill’ and it has a very real chance of becoming law. We need your help to persuade one of the MPs to adopt the Local Electricity Bill.
The Bill would lead to energy market reforms that would create local economic resilience in communities across the country. By empowering communities to sell local renewable energy directly to local households and businesses, it would make new community renewable energy businesses viable and, by bypassing large utilities, they would keep significant additional value within local economies. More of the money we all pay our electricity bills with would circulate in the local economy: more skilled local jobs, more viable local businesses, stronger local economies.
Please make time( not much) to send 7 pre-prepared emails to the 7 preselected MPs to ask them to support the local energy bill.
Provide your full name and address.
Email the MPs
Action needed urgently. 20.05.2021
20 backbench MPs have been drawn in the Private Members’ Ballot to introduce a Bill of their choice. This type of Bill is known as a ‘Ballot Bill’ and it has a very real chance of becoming law. We need your help to persuade one of the MPs to adopt the Local Electricity Bill.
The Bill would lead to energy market reforms that would create local economic resilience in communities across the country. By empowering communities to sell local renewable energy directly to local households and businesses, it would make new community renewable energy businesses viable and, by bypassing large utilities, they would keep significant additional value within local economies. More of the money we all pay our electricity bills with would circulate in the local economy: more skilled local jobs, more viable local businesses, stronger local economies.
Please make time( not much) to send 7 pre-prepared emails to the 7 preselected MPs to ask them to support the local energy bill.
Provide your full name and address.
Email the MPs
The West Cumbria Coal Mine.
(See News 11th March 2021)
Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, has decided to intervene in plans for the mine following “increased controversy”
This doesn't mean the mine is cancelled, however it is a huge breakthrough!
The government said it plans to hold a planning inquiry to help decide the future of the coal mine.
Ultimately, the final decision will rest with the government.
We need to make sure the government makes the only sensible decision: to stop plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria and commit to end the era of coal in the UK.
We need to keep up the pressure.
To find out current information
Write to Robert Jenrick
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government – Robert Jenrick
To contact Robert Jenrick as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
please use the contact form on the MHCLG website.
https://forms.communities.gov.uk/
or send a letter to:
Fry Building
2, Marsham Street
London SW1P 4OF
(See News 11th March 2021)
Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, has decided to intervene in plans for the mine following “increased controversy”
This doesn't mean the mine is cancelled, however it is a huge breakthrough!
The government said it plans to hold a planning inquiry to help decide the future of the coal mine.
Ultimately, the final decision will rest with the government.
We need to make sure the government makes the only sensible decision: to stop plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria and commit to end the era of coal in the UK.
We need to keep up the pressure.
To find out current information
Write to Robert Jenrick
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government – Robert Jenrick
To contact Robert Jenrick as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
please use the contact form on the MHCLG website.
https://forms.communities.gov.uk/
or send a letter to:
Fry Building
2, Marsham Street
London SW1P 4OF
Lake District Green Lanes Alliance
Campaigners lose legal bid to ban 4x4s from Lake District green lanes 24.08.2020
The High Court has dismissed a challenge against the Lake District National Park Authority’s decision not to ban recreational vehicles from using two unpaved roads despite concerns over noise, environmental damage and conflict with walkers and cyclists.
Sign the petition
Campaigners lose legal bid to ban 4x4s from Lake District green lanes 24.08.2020
The High Court has dismissed a challenge against the Lake District National Park Authority’s decision not to ban recreational vehicles from using two unpaved roads despite concerns over noise, environmental damage and conflict with walkers and cyclists.
Sign the petition
Government reverses ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids
The Government has caved in to pressure from farmers (sugar beet growers) and is to allow the use of neonicotinoids, the pesticides that are decimating our bee and insect populations .
Please write to George Eustace at Defra.
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – George Eustace
secretary.state@defra.gsi.gov.uk
The Government has caved in to pressure from farmers (sugar beet growers) and is to allow the use of neonicotinoids, the pesticides that are decimating our bee and insect populations .
Please write to George Eustace at Defra.
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – George Eustace
secretary.state@defra.gsi.gov.uk
HS2
HS2 is billions of £s over budget, is wrecking nature reserves, destroying old growth trees and contributing hugely to the decimation of wildlife – in spite of all the government’s lip service to restoring wildlife and biodiversity. Passionate activists are risking their safety – and even their lives to oppose it.
While we are locked down the effective thing we can do is to write – to Boris Johnson, George Eustace, The Chancellor and The Minister for Transport. Contact details
HS2 is billions of £s over budget, is wrecking nature reserves, destroying old growth trees and contributing hugely to the decimation of wildlife – in spite of all the government’s lip service to restoring wildlife and biodiversity. Passionate activists are risking their safety – and even their lives to oppose it.
While we are locked down the effective thing we can do is to write – to Boris Johnson, George Eustace, The Chancellor and The Minister for Transport. Contact details
Barclays Bank & HSBC are the two biggest funders of fossil fuels in the UK.
CEOs and addresses:-
Barclays:
Jes Staley CEO
Barclays Bank, I, Churchill Place, London E14 5HP
HSBC:
Ian Suart CEO
8, Canada Square, London E14 5HQ
CEOs and addresses:-
Barclays:
Jes Staley CEO
Barclays Bank, I, Churchill Place, London E14 5HP
HSBC:
Ian Suart CEO
8, Canada Square, London E14 5HQ