Following the launch of her Biocide Bill Natalie Bennett continues her good work on Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR) by initiating a debate on this crucial environment and health issue Continue reading “Biocides and anti-microbial resistance”
Category: Ecology and animal protection
People need wild spaces and green spaces and other species need them too. Sharing our world with other species is part of the joy of being alive, when we cage and abuse them, or destroy their habitat, we demean ourselves in the process
Jenny works to increase green spaces and protect animals and wild space
Read on to see her latest posts on this these topics
Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] Second Reading
I will bring forward amendments to ensure that this Bill does not simply allow these failed zombie companies to continue extracting bill payers’ cash while loading huge amounts of debt on to the balance sheet. The Government need a serious look at the opportunity to bring these companies into public ownership, and this Bill should give Ministers the option to nationalise these companies where it makes sense. Continue reading “Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] Second Reading”
Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill Second Reading
Privatisation of rail has given us higher fares and generated a fat profit for all the state-owned German and French rail companies, which took advantage of UK taxpayers. I congratulate Labour on bringing this to an end. But why not end the disastrous mistake of water privatisation that will cost £12.5 billion in this Parliament alone, only to pay shareholders and creditors, but which will still result in waterways full of faeces, agricultural run-off, other chemicals, drugs, paint, bleach and plastic? If water companies collapsed, we could buy them for pennies and run them ourselves. Continue reading “Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill Second Reading”
Natalie Bennett’s new bill: Consumer Products (Control of Biocides)
Environment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030
This report is good and I thank the committee. The Green Party has been saying this sort of thing for 50 years.
Who watches the Watchdogs?
Who Watches the Watchdogs? is an extremely interesting report but we produce reports and they are then often ignored Continue reading “Who watches the Watchdogs?”
End the Cull
Jenny yesterday joined the The Badger Trust rally outside Parliament to call for an end to badger culling. Over 230,000 badgers have been killed since the current badger cull began in England in 2013. Badgers are killed in their thousands from Cornwall to Cumbria under misguided and fundamentally flawed attempts to control bovine Tuberculosis (bTB), an infectious respiratory disease which affects cattle. Continue reading “End the Cull”
Jenny wins River and Seas Award
Last night Jenny won the River and Seas Award at the Nature 2030 Political Purpose awards! The award was presented by James Wallace of River Action. The awards are designed to recognise the efforts of UK politicians who have supported and championed environmental causes over the last year, incentivizing more politicians to devote their time to protecting nature. Continue reading “Jenny wins River and Seas Award”
My debate on the import and sale of fur
My Question: To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they are taking steps to ban the import and sale of fur Continue reading “My debate on the import and sale of fur”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 