I’m thinking of how to respond to the Defra call for evidence – click here – on gamebird shooting (as readers of my monthly newsblast will know). I’ve already penned something on the overall death toll of the tens of millions of released birds – click here. Here are some words on distribution, numbers and…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Data centres from the general to the particular
There’s a lot of discussion about the need for, and the environmental impact of, data centres, often linked to AI if we are to profit from the benefits of new technology. I’m not very close to any of this but I am concerned about the apparent energy and water needs of these centres. Other people…
This is evidence (1) – the scale of deaths of released Pheasants and Red-legged Partidges
I’m thinking of how to respond to the Defra call for evidence on gamebird shooting (as readers of my monthly newsblast will know). Although BASC has told its members to ignore all that stuff about evidence and just send their thoughts to Defra (what a horrific image that brings up) we can do better than…
How to respond to consultation on shooting seasons
This is my advice on responding to the consultation on changes to shooting seasons for a variety of bird species across England, Wales and Scotland. The consultation can be found – click here. The closing date is Sunday 17 May so you have nearly four full weeks and all of four weekends to get…
Peatland Alliance press release – Calderdale Energy Park defies council guidance
Calderdale Energy Park defies council guidance with rushed public consultation on Walshaw Moor wind farm Community consultation on new version of contentious wind farm timed for local election purdah period. Calderdale Energy Park developers have defied Calderdale and Bradford Council advice to delay their statutory consultation on the proposed “Critical National Priority” wind farm on…
Government to consult on changes to shooting seasons
Governments in Britain are to consult on shooting seasons for Woodcock, Snipe, Golden Plover, White-fronted Geese, Goldeneye, Pintail and Pochard (with different packages of proposals for each of Scotland, Wales and England) but it is proposed that Pochard should be removed from Schedule 2.1 across Britain. Consultation – click here. These proposals emanate from correspondence…
BBC makes another mistake over More or Less nonsense
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I wrote a blog about a gross factual error (of many orders of magnitude) which was perpetuated by the BBCR4 programme, More or Less, which embarrassingly is a programme about people and organisations using numbers correctly – click here. I complained to the BBC – as I said I would in the blog. On Friday,…
More or Less nonsense
The BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less is, more or less, right up my street because it is about numbers and statistics and their use and misuse and quite often about logic and public argument and the absence of the former from the latter. If I’m in the car and it’s on the radio…
Press release – Calder Valley MP has lost his way on how to protect Walshaw Moor, say gutted constituents
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Calder Valley MP has lost his way on how to protect Walshaw Moor, say gutted constituents Calder Valley environmental groups are asking their MP Josh Fenton-Glynn to explain his vote against two crucial House of Lords’ nature protection amendments to the contentious Planning and Infrastructure Bill on Thursday.Bede Mullen, a founder and former Chair of…
Debate on grouse shooting 4 – the petition system
If anyone ever tells you that it is easy to get 100,000 signatures for a petition then ask them how many times they have done it. Very few people have. I have – five times and I have given considerable help and advice to others too. I’m a fan of the idea that any citizen…