My question to the government: To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the work of the Environment Agency in protecting public health and the environment Continue reading “My debate on the Environment Agency”
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
Transitional Biomass Subsidies protest
On 5th March Biofuelwatch and the Stop Burning Trees Coalition held an emergency demo outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in response to the Government’s proposal to offer billions more in new ‘transitional’ subsidies for unabated wood biomass burning. This goes back on previously government policy to stop all subsidies for unabated biomass burning in 2027. The only two power stations eligible for these subsidies are Drax (the UK’s biggest carbon emitter) and Lynemouth. These subsidies have no clear end date in sight, so if approved, could lock us into decades more of forest destruction, pollution of communities and carbon emissions. We called on DESNZ to scrap these plans to keep funding tree burning, and invest in genuine renewables and climate action.
Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies
No single stretch of river in England or Northern Ireland is in good overall health. 85% of river stretches in England have failed to reach good ecological health and toxic chemicals pollute every stretch of English rivers. What a legacy this Government have left us. Ofwat has failed and the Environment Agency has failed. Continue reading “Pollution in Rivers and Regulation of Private Water Companies”
My new Bill to win back public control of the water industry
Water Industry (Regulation and Renationalisation) Bill
A Bill to make provision about the structure, ownership and regulation of the water industry; to allow, and in specified circumstances require the Secretary of State to bring water assets into public ownership; to provide for the recovery of dividends; to provide for monitoring of water quality; to set a target for the reduction of sewage discharges; to provide for financial penalties in relation to sewage discharges and breaches of monitoring requirements; to require the Secretary of State to publish a strategy for the reduction of sewage discharges from storm overflows, including an economic impact assessment; and for connected purposes. Continue reading “My new Bill to win back public control of the water industry”
The start of a new Parliamentary session
After 13 years of Tory Britain, you can spend three years in prison for erecting a climate crisis banner while sexual predators are quietly fast-tracked for release to help with prison overcrowding.
We all know who is not facing jail time: the water company CEOs who fleeced customers for billions of pounds, filled our rivers with sewage and are now asking for our bills to go up so they can take even more of our money; the Conservative Party members who benefited from the billions handed out via the PPE fast-track scheme and numerous other scams; the Tory donors from the oil and gas industry who have had their payback through tax breaks, new licences and delays in the net-zero policy. Those are climate criminals who are costing us a fortune now and costing future taxpayers billions to clean up the mess and mitigate the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes. Continue reading “The start of a new Parliamentary session”
Emergency Motion: Nutrient Neutrality
Emergency Motion to conference
Jenny has put an emergency motion to conference in response to reports that the government will try again to scrap the anti-pollution rules for areas like the Norfolk Broads and Lake District. Please like it on the Green Party members emergency motion page, so it can be debated:
Green Party recognised at Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards
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.
Continue reading “Green Party recognised at Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards”
Just Stop Oil
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”
Shark Fin Fishing
The issue of shark-fins encapsulates the human problem that we have in our relationship to our planet. There is an attitude among a vast majority of people—particularly in this House—that the planet is there for us: it is there for us to rape and pillage, to use as and when we need. As a Green, I can see that simply is not true. The majority of people think that this whole world is at our disposal—animal, vegetable, mineral—and I argue that it is our lifeline. It is our home, and we ought to be looking after it better. Humans have been around, more or less in the form that we are at the moment, for about 100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, that is like being tiny little toddlers, and our behaviour is often like toddlers; we are greedy, we grab and we do not follow common sense. We certainly do not seem to understand that earth is our support system. Continue reading “Shark Fin Fishing”
Clean Air Bill letter to PM
On Friday Jenny went with Caroline Lucas MP and Ella’s mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah to 10 Downing Street to deliver a letter to the PM – urging him to take up #EllasLaw and to make clean air a human right for all. The longer it takes him & his Govt to clean up our dirty, toxic air, the more lives will be put at risk – they *must* support this Bill.
The 2nd reading of Ella’s Law (Clean Air Bill) in the Commons is scheduled for 24th March.
Caroline has an Early Day Motion (EDM) in support of the right to breathe clean air, has your MP signed in support of the EDM yet? Please email your MP and ask them to sign Caroline’s Clean Air EDM
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 