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Monday, November 25, 2024
The government claims that its new energy strategy will provide cleaner and moreaffordable energy this decade. But we’ve been here before. Their 2011 White Paper,Planning our Electric Future: A White Paper for secure, affordable and low carbonelectricity said ‘we need huge investment in renewables; a new generation of nuclearstations;...
The corporate deception... and the sociopathic... politicians will wipe out the only known inhabited planet, to humans, in the universe. Our ignorance, inaction and greed helps them. https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1512093888487514123?s=20&t=6JL_vBSTm4quwYK-cVltaw That's All Folks! Jason Cridland
It is "moral and economic madness" to fund new fossil fuel projects, the United Nations (UN) chief said today, as a pioneering report warned simply cutting emissions was no longer enough to curb the climate crisis. The need to scale up the measures to remove carbon dioxide from the air are...

Gardening tips for April

As we’ve already seen, April can be a tricky month. On warm, bright days it’s tempting to be out in the garden planting and sowing, with a feeling that summer is only just around the corner. But then we get a few cold days and nights, with frost and...
Campaigners against a new oil well near Puddletown in Dorset are celebrating after the applicant withdrew their application. The site just north of Athelhampton had been proposed by South Western Energy Ltd for 20 years of oil production, which would have released millions of tonnes of carbon emissions. Objectors raised various issues...
From wildflower planting to pebble painting, these are just some of the free activities at Weymouth Town Council’s community event in Westham during the Easter school holidays.  The nature-themed event takes place on Thursday 21st April from 11am to 2pm at the Children’s Community Woodland on Links Road. It’s the...
Councillors, officers, and keen gardeners are celebrating as Dorset Council can finally hand over a new set of seven allotments to a local community in Weymouth. When the builder of Southdown Farm went bust, Dorset Council received money from the liquidator which was used to set up the site and...
XR UK has announced that there will soon be actions at oil refineries in the run up to the April Rebellion. We wrote this statement for use during these actions. XRTU are rank and file trade unionists who are also active in Extinction Rebellion (XR). This is our message...
Bombs are raining down on Ukraine, and our government is using it as an an opportunity to take us back to the dark ages.The pressure to wean ourselves off Russian oil and gas could supercharge the transition to renewables. Instead, Boris Johnson is pushing for more UK oil production...
Work to build new sustainable transport infrastructure on Wimborne Road West and Leigh Road has now completed and the 2.3km stretch of new walking and cycle paths and crossings are open and ready for use. It is the first project to be completed as part of Dorset and BCP councils’ Transforming...