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ACTION FOR COP26

This year, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is being hosted by the UK in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021. The Prime Minister’s recently announced 10-point plan only takes the UK just over half-way to meeting its interim climate targets, while government support for new roads, airport expansion and […]

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Halt Hs2 Parliamentary Debate – Monday 13th September 2021

The Commons Debate on HS2 is being held on Monday 13 September starting at 6 pm. A Minister has to reply. The wording of the Petition which received 155,000 signatures is: “We ask Parliament to repeal the High-Speed Rail Bills, 2016 and 2019, as MPs voted on misleading environmental, financial and timetable information provided by […]

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HS2 tunnelling comes with risks to water supply

We are linking a news article from www.building.co.uk here. In it it states there was “real nervousness” on the part of one local water supplier, Affinity Water, and the Environment Agency, about the project’s 2,000 tonne tunnelling machines “losing cubes of material into an area which frankly they are not used to encountering”. Also that […]

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