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…
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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
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
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…
Debate on grouse shooting 3 – the political parties
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Having discussed the most important aspect of the debate on driven grouse shooting, the government response – click here, I will now turn to other aspects of the debate. There are 650 MPs in the Westminster parliament, and 634 come from 13 political parties with an additional 15 independents and the Speaker. Grouse moors occur…
Debate on grouse shooting 2 – the government response
If you are running a campaign then your aim is to achieve change in the world, change on the ground, change in reality. One of the most direct, though not particularly easy, routes to achieving widespread change is through influencing the action of governments as they control laws, regulations, enforcement, taxation and government spending. Petitions…
Debate on grouse shooting 1
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The future of driven grouse shooting was debated on Monday afternoon and there is plenty to say about that debate but I’ll give myself some time to think about it and let the dust settle. I’ll return to the subject, in some detail, on Monday and later next week. Meanwhile, if you didn’t watch the…
What will the Labour government do on Monday?
Today’s RSPB report, Hen Harriers in the firing line, is a timely reminder ahead of Monday’s debate in the Westminster parliament on the future of driven grouse shooting that birds of prey, in this report Hen Harriers, are systematically and illegally killed on grouse moors so that the those enjoying the hobby of shooting Red…