17th October 2011
Dear Editor
I wonder if people are aware that in September, Gloucestershire County Council’s Development Control Committee granted planning permission to Grundons (a private waste management company who already run an incinerator at Colnbrook near Heathrow) to, amongst other things, landfill 120,000 tonnes of hazardous waste at Bishops Cleeve every year for the next two decades?
5th June 2011
It is no wonder there have been letters to the SNJ concerning the Coalition's plans for the NHS. We are told a funding crisis threatens the NHS if Andrew Lansley's 'reforms' don't go through. The truth is that there is a massive funding crisis facing the NHS whatever. This has been created by the impact of the government's cuts, money wasted on the ongoing privatisation of the NHS (including the PFI schemes) and a failure to 'green' the NHS with more emphasis on prevention and less on mega-hospitals.
19th May 2011
I write taking issue with Neil Carmichael's claims to be the 'greenest ever government' (18.05.11). Hardly an ambitious task. Jonathon Porritt, former head of the Sustainable Development Commission, has just carried out a Friends of the Earth-funded review of 77 key policies (i). He found there has been little or no progress in 55 policies with "the birds singing" for just six. He concludes we are "all in all, as close to a nightmare as one can imagine" with the government's chance of being the "greenest ever" being "vanishingly remote".
Angry, disappointed and disillusioned are the sum of my feelings regarding the decision by the County to go for an incinerator - this blog has covered all the twists and turns since 2006 and even argued against those who said the County want an incinerator. I didn't want to believe them - but the evidence has grown despite the fact that the arguments are so strong against an incinerator.
Photo: Green councillors with FoE in 2009 at Javelin Park helping to launch a petition
17th February 2011
Letter to Stroud Life
I have noted the "Question and Answer" session you have had with our MP over the last three weeks in "Stroud Life".
I think a question I would like to pose, through your paper, is what is the ultimate goal, which Neil and the Coalition have for our Country, after the deficit issue has been sorted out. Great play has been made about the Big Society, which we are told will solve our problems. However I would maintain that, certainly in this area, we already have a Big Society with the aid of our valuable public sector.
28th January 2011
There’s plenty in the local and national press, not least from our MP Neil Carmichael, about rising fuel prices but we can’t expect f
uel prices to remain low forever. Prices are bound to increase as demand from countries such as China and India accelerates and new oilfields are not replacing the ones in decline.
4th February 2011
It’s particularly galling that, whilst taxpayers in Gloucestershire and the rest of the UK face millions being cut from libraries, youth services and public transport, bankers are paying themselves the same bonuses as they received in 2010 – a figure of around £7bn.
27th January 2011
The UK’s economy contracted by 0.5% between October and December 2010 ending a year of growth. Public services are being severely cut but the private sector is not picking up the slack as the Coalition Government promised. And how could it? Too much money has been taken out of the economy too quickly.
17th January 2011
Nigel Cooper's leaflet in support of his candidacy for the Rodborough by-election says, "Nigel has lived in the District for 14 years.." Let's be clear, he lives in Cranham, not Rodborough. So if you think local is important, he is your fourth choice.
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