Hi I have gathered information about fracking for the past few years and now I have ordered it into categories for the use of our anti-fracking groups and the lawyers I work with in Denmark and the UK. Please feel free to download and make use of this material...
We are delighted to announce that the Government’s Department for Transport has awarded £438,000 to Dorset Council as part of the Active Travel Fund. This funding will be used for walking and cycling improvements across the county as we move towards a greener, cleaner Dorset.
The Government survey work has...
Dear Mr Lynch, Climate Change Management Thank you for your letter of 12 February to the Dorset Eye, about climate change and water management. Defra leads on these policy areas, and so I have been asked to reply. Defra published a National Adaptation Programme (NAP) report in July...
Banning popular weed killer glyphosate within five years and ignoring robust scientific evidence risks undermining the EU's entire regulatory approval process for herbicides, warned ECR environment coordinator Julie Girling today.
Having only last year recommended that glyphosate be renewed for a period of seven years, and despite presenting no new...
New limits which would see significant reductions in five key air pollutants cleared a significant hurdle in Brussels today. The European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee approved a draft directive, led by Conservative MEP Julie Girling, that is expected to halve the number premature deaths from...
I set off for work at 2:50 am to complete what, to anyone who knows me, has been a dream of mine since I can remember.
I arrived at work and went to pick up David Attenborough and his film crew.
Sir David Attenborough walked down the driveway and...
The licensing of pesticides will be reviewed by MEPs following the establishment today of a special European Parliament committee. Sitting for nine months, committee members will examine the scientific evaluation of pesticides, including glyphosate, the world's most commonly used weed killer which was relicensed for five years by...
The atoms that make everything in the universe, including this screen you’re looking at right now, are mostly empty space. Think of an atom as a nucleus surrounded by an electron. So the entire atom is the nucleus in the middle, with the electron somewhere around it. The nucleus is about a...
The Sun’s mass is approximately 1,988,550,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg. Which is equivalent to about 330,000 Earths. Most of the Sun’s mass is hydrogen (about 73%) and helium (roughly 25%). The rest is made up of heavier elements such as oxygen, carbon, neon and iron. Despite it taking up 99.86% of our...
Unbelievable that Rees-Mogg has brought Putin in to the narrative with absolutely no evidence to justify the lifting of the fracking ban, especially given who has come out against it.
Chris Cornelius, founder of Cuadrilla, told The Guardian yesterday, that he does not believe there is any chance of fracking...
