Hillingdon Green party distributed a leaflet in May 2023 on the ongoing tunnel issues with HS2 at Ruislip and other items. To download the leaflet please click here. […]
Ongoing tunnel trouble
Open Letter to Boris Johnson
The following open letter from Sarah Green of Hillingdon Green party election candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip to Boris Johnson the sitting mp can be read here. […]
Sarah Green reports HS2 to the United Nations
The United Nations – Water Conference was held 22 to 24 March 2023. Sarah Green Hillingdon Green Party coordinator was honoured to give oral evidence to a side event Global Women and the Facets of Water. A global vision of water protection and sustainable water management is ratified by UK Government under the UN 2030 […]
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Pause HS2 immediately
This motion calls for all HS2 operations around the Chiltern Aquifer to be paused. It came to light on 18th February 2023, tunnel operations in Ruislip were using chemicals which they themselves disallowed in tunnelling operations in the same aquifer just to the north, “because we would pollute the aquifer” (paragraph 10) Chemical foam erupted […]
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 […]
Climate Change: Two new studies show Climate change continues to reach new extremes
Two new studies have continued to show much Climate change is continue to accelerate. Firstly the European Union Copernicus Climate Service revealed another year of climate extremes with many high temperature records and rising atmospheric gas concentations. Europe saw its hottest summer ever recorded and several prolonged and intense heatwaves affected parts of western and […]
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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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