Other issues – Page 15 – Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

Clean Air comes top

Published on May 17, 2022May 29, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

My Clean Air Act is top of the Lords’ ballot for private members bills which means that it stands a good chance of getting through all three stages in the Lords, before moving into the Commons. The bill aims to protect the public against air pollution which is one of the biggest public health hazards of our time and responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths in the UK. I’ve been working on this issue for over twenty years, but this is my best chance to get the government to take decisive action.

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A draconian government tries again

Published on May 10, 2022May 11, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

The Lords deleted nearly 18 pages of the most draconian restrictions on the right to peaceful protest from the Policing Bill, but the government are now trying to bring them back. This must be opposed.

The government want to stop any protest that might get noticed and be effective. They have already got the right to ban noisy protests, now they want to clamp down on all the other forms of peaceful, non violent protest that people use to get attention. And that’s the crucial point – protestors are just people. People who work, pay taxes, study, or collect the pensions they have earned. People who see something wrong and want it to stop. People like you and me.

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Blue Wall going green

Published on May 9, 2022May 11, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

The Conservatives are starting to lose their grip on rural England and Wales. Family farmers feel betrayed, country dwellers can’t let their dogs swim in the local badly polluted river and whole regions feel a post Brexit neglect.

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A bad week for democracy and freedom

Published on April 29, 2022May 11, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

This was a bad week for democracy and our freedoms in the UK. We lost the right to protest noisily, and effectively, to vote without ID, and to have an independent electoral commission. Parliament also allowed the government to break international law by deporting refugees to Rwanda, along with giving the Home Secretary the power to arbitrarily deport several million people born in this country (dual nationals) with no right of appeal prior to them losing their citizenship.

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Why are we paying £2m a day for Drax to pollute the planet?

Published on April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

Drax uses wood from forests in Louisiana, North Carolina, British Columbia, Estonia
and Latvia. These forests will take centuries to recover, centuries which we simply
do not have when tackling the climate emergency. The government claim that Drax is sustainable simply ignores all the extra emissions from felling, making the pellets and transporting it all. It ignores the extra carbon that is oaked up by more mature trees.

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ASDA fails environment – where are the peat free alternatives?

Published on April 22, 2022April 25, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

This government is investing a lot of taxpayer money to restore peatlands in this country, while allowing supermarkets and garden centres to make a big profit out of the destruction of peatlands. People within government clearly want to do the right thing, but not if it gets in the way of corporate greed.

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Green rethink needed on incinerator

Published on April 21, 2022April 25, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

Burning waste in the new Edmonton Incinerator will be twice as bad for climate emissions as putting the waste in landfill, according to a new analysis of the report commissioned by local councillors to support the project. It is vitally important that we elect Green Party councillors in the May 8^th elections who will reopen the debate on this environmentally damaging incinerator and force councils to look again at the basis on which they have supported burning waste, rather than recycling it.

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Elections Bill Report Stage

Published on April 11, 2022April 13, 2022 by jonesjb

The real interference in our democracy comes from the top. We all know that the problem is billionaire donors and lobbyists bankrolling the Tory party. That is where a failure of democracy is happening. We have to stop the Government’s interference with democracy. Continue reading “Elections Bill Report Stage” →

MPs debate Nationality Bill amendments

Published on March 22, 2022November 2, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

Today, the House of Commons is being given a choice to make about its treatment of refugees. Does it back the 19 amendments from the House of Lords to the Nationality and Borders Bill that create a more welcoming and humanitarian approach to refugees, or do MPs nail the doors shut on people fleeing conflict and terror?

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Minister for the Seas

Published on March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 by greenlordsmedia

My oral question today is: “to ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the creation of a Minister for the Oceans?”

We’re a maritime nation. Fish and chips on a Friday night and national icons like Nelson and Sir Walter Raleigh. Our history is connected to the seas and our coastal waters are becoming one vast energy source with wind farms and the prospect of tidal power.

So it seems odd that both France and Portugal both have Ministries for the Oceans, but not us. We have a Space Strategy but not an Ocean Strategy, despite huge under-explored expanse that makes up two thirds of our planet.

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