Say No to HS2
The Greens support rail travel in principle because it should improve Britain’s transport system, reduce road and air traffic and help cut carbon emissions.
HS2, however, does too much damage to local communities and to the environment and it is too pricey. To achieve high speeds the trains are expected to use up to 50% more fuel than Eurostar so carbon emissions will not be reduced.
The enormous sums involved (estimated 100 billion and rising) could be better spent improving transport for everybody, not just the wealthy business people who will be able to afford to use HS2.
HS2 is not a green solution. That money needs to be spent instead on increasing rail capacity by adding more track to existing routes and by upgrading freight-only routes for passenger use too.
At the same time, we need wider-ranging policies designed to reduce the need for long-distance travel, while integrating local public transport systems (for example, as has actually happened to good effect in London over the last 15 years) and continuing to make streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
HS2 News
Multiple HS2 pollution events occur in Hillingdon
The recent HS2 pollution event at Ruislip rugby club highlighted by the Guardian yesterday is just one of the latest of many pollution incidents we know of in February 2023. Below a mini geyser at the Ruislip rugby club grounds after HS2 applied anti foam chemicals. The vast cement works across the Colne valley are […]
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Harefield’s Chalk Slagheap
After the Chromium-6 is taken out of the water at the South Portal the Reject water is fed into the sewer system at Maple Cross. We do not know if this is safe? Link to Jenny Jones Questions and Department of Transport Answer Contaminated rainwater run-off needs to be prevented from percolating into the ground […]
Protect London drinking water – from chromium-6
Chromium-6 is the cancer causing chemical, made famous by the Erin Brockovich court case and film. ‘Unexpectedly’ high levels of Chromium-6 have been found at HS2 work sites across the Colne Valley, thought to derive from vast cement works. Levels of 77 ug/l (parts per billion) have been recorded in run off at the HS2 […]
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Hillingdon Water quality gathering
Hillingdon Green party organised a gathering on the 16th November at Moorhall Road Grand Union Canal for people to learn about what was happening to Hillingdon drinking water supplies. At three sites, (the canal bridge, Blackford pumping station and the water pipe over the Grand Union canal to take away the contaminated water) the Sarah […]
HS2 water pollution – September 2022 Up-date
In June 2022 HS2 contractors Align Ltd, building the Colne Valley Viaduct, submitted plans to dewater cofferdams along the line of the Viaduct as they have found polluted water in the jetty piers for the haul road. […]
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HS2 Land Take
On 20th September 2022 HS2 Ltd and the Department For Transport gained widespread injunctions making it illegal to step on land claimed as theirs […]
HS2 puts London’s water supply in danger
See here for a link to Green peer Jenny Jones blog on her recent visit to HS2 campaigners in Hillingdon. Green Party peer, Jenny Jones, met campaigners on the outskirts of London last week to see for herself how the building of HS2 is threatening a large proportion of London’s water supply and impacting on […]
Stop HS2 Protestors at the Green Party protest for the right to protest at Westminster
Sarah Green and Mark Keir took their Water is Life / Stop HS2 banner to the right to protest demo at Westminster on 12th January. See here for the video they posted on Facebook. […]
HS2 confirms they are carrying out illegal works to our drinking water
HS2 effectively admits that works are taking place which require additional purification processes […]
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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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