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Monday, November 25, 2024
Dorset Climate Action Network (Dorset CAN) has sent a strong message on behalf of hundreds of Dorset citizens to the world leaders assembled in Glasgow for the Global Climate Conference COP26 The message calls upon the world leaders to provide “bold, collective leadership at this critical juncture in the history...

XR Response to Recent Flooding

Recent widespread flooding across Dorset has caused havoc, clearly demonstrating that Dorset Council is woefully underprepared for Climate Change now, let alone in the future. The UK has been on average 6% wetter over the last 30 years* and that is set to rise drastically. It’s not just average rainfall...
The aftermath of the government voting down an amendment to the Environment Bill saw a number of claims from the media and opponents, and counter-claims from MPs defending their decisions. Some of these could do with clarification or correction. Claim #1:“Tory MPs vote to allow water companies to dump raw...

Insulate Britain: Why?

The conundrum of climate change is a longstanding one, most of us are all aware of the effects it has on our lives and consequent damage to the planet in terms of global heating and rising sea levels. Recently in the UK a political group has emerged called Insulate...
All across the land Churches will be ringing their Bell or Bells at 6:00PM on Saturday 30th of October to sound the Alarm of the Climate and Ecological Emergency. This will coincide with the beginning of COP26 possibly the most critical global climate conference in History.  Revd Br Alasdair Kay...
Two Olympians use pink boat to blockade main entrance to Fawley Oil refinery as other activists swarm into site and scale two 50 foot oil silos Protestors demand Government listens to the people and bans all fossil fuels investments NOW Eco-campaigners have broken into ExxonMobil’s Fawley Oil terminal in Hampshire today (28...
East Dorset Friends of the Earth (EDFOE), is joining the COP 26 Global Day of Action1  in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on November 6th 2021. In conjunction with Bournemouth University and UCU they are holding a Climate Change Question Time at Bournemouth University, Lees Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus on Saturday...
As the UK prepares to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, BCP Council reflects on 26 examples of positive steps it has made during 2021 to tackle climate change locally. BCP Council declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency in July 2019, and continues to take steps towards meeting its pledge...
All of these South West MP's voted AGAINST an ammendment that would have prevented the dumping of raw sewage. Steve Double – St Austell George Eustice – Camborne and Redruth Liam Fox – North Somerset Marcus Fysh – Yeovil James Heappey – Wells Simon Jupp – East Devon Chris Loder – West Dorset Cherilyn Mackrory – Truro...
Something is going badly wrong in the countryside. For years, despite abundant video evidence, bloodsports enthusiasts have intimidated and attacked people who criticise and seek to monitor them, with apparent impunity. There is film footage of a man beating the windows of a car with a dead fox, of a huntsman...