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Reducing emissions and switching to non-carbon energy sources reduces emissions.

Does Sellafield have any information reassuring people that they won’t lose your marbles or does this concern not deserve a response?

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Which international institution has lasted over a thousand years? Catholic Church?

Huw lets see if you can answer a question for once – it will be a first for the Shrops Star threads!
Q: If I drive 20,000 miles with a car emission of 261g/mile CO2 emmission, how many trees do I need to carbon off-set this?

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But risking arrest and a criminal record is braver than blogging, so I stand by what I said.

Which international institution has lasted over a thousand years?

Does Sellafield have any information reassuring people that they won’t lose your marbles or does this concern not deserve a response?

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Was looking at my family geneology, looking at my grandfathers Demobilisation card. He volunteered in 1915 when he was 16 years old and was dicharged 1919. A quick cross reference to his Birth Cert shows the 2 year discrepancy.

No that is bravery Huw, not climbing on roof with a ladder.

As for nucleur waste, may I suggest you visit the Sellafield recycling plant’s visitor centre and you might learn something. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Huw also said “Which human institution do you know of which has lasted over a thousand years? ” The British Monarchy?

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What happens if you lose your marbles to some terrorist group?

Who looks after your marbles after you are gone?

And after that?

And after that?

We need institutions to keep these materials safe for thousands of years.

Which human institution do you know of which has lasted over a thousand years?

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To see what sort of people they are and hear why these ordinary individuals chose to protest in this way, have a look at the 2-minute video on the Greenpeace website.

There were over 50 people protesting from all walks of life, nationalities, and aged from early 20s to over 70.

They felt compelled to take action and risk arrest and a criminal record because they feel that time is running out and our politicians are not matching their green rhetoric with action.

Here is a local example of why direct action like this is now necessary:

In September 2009 Secretary of State, John Denham, writes in the Independent that central government can ‘lead on climate change’.

In October 2009 Secretary of State, John Denham, pushes through an unpopular open-cast mine of the dirtiest fossil fuel, which emits 1153 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour.

(Wind, by contrast, emits 24 grammes)

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Look at those nuclear submarines – they’ve been out for 40 years and haven’t needed refueling – I wish I coukd say the same for my car!

Have these Greenies visited Sellafield recently? No – they are too busy climbing on rooves making a nuisance of themselves.

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I had a similar experience camping in the car park by Loch Lomond (wild camping is permitted in Scotland). I was with two Glaswegian pals and we were ‘at one with nature’, but there were alot of other people there who were drunk, using foul language, playing loud music and generally uncouthed.

Therefore I would urge anyone thinking of living in a tented commune by the ‘Bonney Bonney Banks’ or elsewhere to think again.

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It is interesting that opponents of people, who promote ‘collective responsibility and a global response to global challenges’ (see Nobel Peace Prize), often resort to telling them to leave the country rather than dealing with their arguments.

I’m quite keen to stay, Keith, and contribute in my own way to my country, which I love just as much as you do.

I feel the Labour government’s decision over this mine is wrong, because it is myopic, unsustainable and totally undermines their rhetoric on climate change, and I am not willing to be silent and let it pass.

For your information I don’t live in a tented commune, I do want to keep the lights on and I DO support wind power projects, coupled with massive investment in energy conservation.

The Centre for Alternative Energy released a report in 2007 (just Google ‘Zero Carbon Britain’), which promotes the halving of energy consumption through energy conservation measures and massive investment in offshore wind.

I am totally against new coal.

But I am also totally for CAT’s sustainable approach, which needs to be discussed and debated as a matter of utmost urgency across the country.

The Foreword to this report was written by Sir John Houghton, Former Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Former Director General of the UK Meteorological Office.

Sir John Houghton is speaking to the Stretton Climate Care at Church Stretton School tomorrow evening (Tuesday 13th October) at 7.30pm.

At a time of mass joblessness the government should be stimulating the economy and putting it on a sustainable footing, creating construction jobs in home insulation, targeting the poorest and the most vulnerable like pensioners and families living in poverty, investing massively in sustainable industries, which the UK can manufacture and export to the world.

Hospitals, schools and households will be able to earn money from selling green energy to the grid from April 2010.

Is this not a positive development, Keith?

What is your vision for energy generation for the next 20-30 years?

Do you think people who express concerns about peak oil and peak gas should go and live in chad, too?

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Has no-one visited the beautiful Granville Country Park in Telford or the Quarry in Shrewsbury?

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Yet now Eade states this is a ‘crass decison’ and that the Council is considering a legal challenge. What a joke.

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i) The section for “minutes” is password protected. What is there to hide?
ii) Looking at the images on the front page, it seems that the term “sandal wearers” is still more than relevant when applied to those of a green persuasion.

;-)

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You think that 30 Months of coal for the power station is worth desecrating an acient woodland that’s been around centuries for and putting so many peoples health at risk?

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This way we will no longer have to dig up beauty spots to obtain coal.

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By poor decisions in my final sentence I mean the decision about this mine.

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What do you see as the best way to wean our economy off fossil fuel imports from other countries?

You say green energy is a ‘luxury’.

Greens disagree. We see it as an economic and ecological necessity.

We see massive government investment in a green industrial revolution as the best way of strengthening the UK’s manufacturing base and an important first step along the way to UK energy security.

Do you think it is a ‘luxury’ to imagine a possible future for our economy in 20-30 years’ time, where Britain is exporting high-tech green technologies to the rest of the world?

The Nobel Peace Prize committee 2009 said that Barack Obama’s desire ‘for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges’ was the reason why he won this year’s prize.

That decision is going to inspire people like me across the world.

The difference with 10 years ago, though, is that people like me are not going to stay silent in future when poor decisions like this are pushed through.

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