I initiated a debate to ask HMG how much of the Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Fund they have awarded in contracts to companies involved in the oil and gas industry and if they would promise not to award it to those companies and their Minister said I was living in a ‘fantasy green world’
Our Westminster representatives won two of the six Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards: Jenny won the 2023 Pollution, Waste & Air award and Caroline Lucas MP won the Lifetime Achievement award at the inaugural Political Purpose Awards held at the House of Lords on 20th September.
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Jenny yesterday introduced Natalie’s aviation amendment to the Levelling Up Bill: the amendment proposed a review to examine the costs and benefits of planned expansion of the UK air transport sector and was based on a report from the New Economics Foundation entitled Losing Altitude: The Economics of Air Transport in Great Britain Continue reading “Aviation”
The Government this week attempted to throw out our inherited EU rules on sewage and house building. It took Jenny a week to convince Labour to take the opportunity to kill these late Government amendments to the Levelling Up Bill – amendments tabled by the Government at Report Stage in the Lords can be dismissed entirely because they haven’t been scrutinised at Committee Stage – and Labour did eventually join her in voting the amendments down Continue reading “Nutrient neutrality”
The Government are so awful on the issue of climate change, on both mitigation and adaptation; they are absolutely incompetent, if the Government do only one thing, they really have to just stop oil Continue reading “Just Stop Oil”
The unelected House of Lords is an outdated institution and recent decisions by Labour Party Lords are pushing its constitutional role to breaking point. Continue reading “Parliamentary convention”
This Government are eco-stupid. Part of their problem is an inability to see the global impact of climate change and our role in it. Part of it is the straightforward corruption of donations to the Conservative Party buying influence, North Sea oil licences and the demolition of our net-zero target. Their resistance to all things green is often disguised as innate conservatism, but it is pure hypocrisy, they love open-cast coal mines and giant fracking wells but find large windmills an ugly addition to our traditional landscape. Continue reading “Geothermal Heat and Power Debate”
The solutions to the problem within our society involve addressing the imbalances of power – including economic and social power – that can leave individuals vulnerable to domestic abuse Continue reading “Violence Against Women and Girls”
This government has launched an assault on our democracy. It is trying to discourage opposition voters reaching the ballot box with Voter ID; it is giving the police the power to ban protests that create “more than minor” disruption; and it is trying to by-pass parliamentary democracy by handing more power to Ministers. Continue reading “Assault on democracy”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 