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Challenging
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All Change! Cambridge Friends of the Earth Has a New Email Address: camfoe@yahoo.co.uk | |
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NUCLEAR POWER | |
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A STUPID WAY TO BOIL WATER! Stop the Madness, Sign the PETITION. |
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AND THEN THERE'S THE WASTE....
An online petition opposing the geological "disposal" of high level
nuclear wastes in Cumbria can be signed HERE. |
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NO CUTS TO BUS SUBSIDIES IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE
The Campaign for Better Transport reported that of all councils in the country,
Cambridgeshire is making the
More information here:
Cambridge Evening News article
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Gasland The Movie
(Click on image above to see trailer)
"A brave and fearless film. EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT."
Michael Moore
****"The 21st century's answer to Erin brockovich, with a banjo"
Zara Miller, Little White Lies.
"Josh Fox's film GASLAND will save the American water, air and soil from being abused by corporate greed."
Yoko Ono
The film makers want to make the film available to screen for regional groups and individuals.
If you would like to host a screening in your local area, follow the link http://gaslandmovie.co.uk/Gasland UK Website. You can also find more information about the film and a full screenings list.
Alternatively, please contact the company who made the film:
Anna Sissons
sissons@dogwoof.com
02078317252
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The clock has started ticking! We have just 26 days to stop a US-style cow factory farm being built.
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New Million Climate Jobs pamphlet launched!
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SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK BILL KILLED - SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Well, The 'Sustainable Livestock' Bill was presented on 23rd March 2010 by Peter Ainsworth and backed by a group of cross-party MPs has been killed
off, not by intelligent debate on its merits or otherwise, but by being talked out by a small group of MPs (Tony Baldry MP and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, take a bow).Click here for details (admittedly with a Labour slant) on their
ludicrous, undemocratic behaviour.
This new law would have been a big step towards preventing UK meat and dairy production from destroying rainforests and leading to
massive climate-changing emissions and called for an ambitious new plan to reduce the damaging environmental and social impacts of meat
and dairy farming.
Here's a video outlining the sort of suffering and injustice that Tony Baldry MP and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP perhaps can't take seriously:
Yes, the government was going to vote against it, but there was probably sufficient support for the bill to get it through the Second Reading and into Committe before Tony and Jacob went into their double act and started talking and talking and talking.......
Click here for National Friends of the Earth's attempts to correct some of the misinformation spread around before the Second Reading of the Bill.
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TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT (NOT):
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Not Really Suprising....
Looks like the Department for Transport is planning to give train companies a financial incentive to cut train
services. This unsurprising development could obviously be really bad news.
The proposal is in The Future of Rail Franchising document which
isn't even a formal consultation, because it's said to be only of 'technical
interest' to the industry. The Government appears to be trying to sneak through
this change without giving passengers - or anyone - a chance to comment.
Click HERE for the Campaign For Better Transport's press release.
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The A14, it's dangerous and it doesn't work, so what's the solution....? Make it bigger!
We don't think so
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Well, it probably didn't achieve much, but Cambridge FoE was there! Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009
Video a Murray Lawson Production
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Don't believe the (anti) hype. Not that Cambridge Residents Believe it Anyway: Results of an Online Poll Conducted by the Cambridge Evening News Last November
The UK has virtually no wind turbine manufacturing capacity and what we do have
is possibly shutting down. 600 jobs are going in Newport, Isle of Wight, at Vestas,
the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world.
"Closure of turbine factory takes the wind out of Britain's low-carbon sails"
"Vestas to cut 600 jobs in Britain as wind turbine market is becalmed in
Northern Europe"
Click here to see the Government's response to the petition submitted in favour of keeping the factory open.
Get Knitted!!
Click here for the real Mill Road Tesco stitch up....
"This is a battle over diversity and local character, but it's also a struggle for local and national democracy".
Quote adapted from George Monbiot's article in the Guardian: WWF's Energy Bill Campaign |
