#Calderdale Cabinet gives green light to Calderdale Community Energy
On Monday 27th January, Calderdale Council Cabinet voted to accept proposals for the Council to set up a community benefit society, Calderdale Community Energy, in partnership with local third sector...
View ArticleCalderdale Council to see if new government strategy could help make homes...
Richard Armitage, Housing Projects Manager at Calderdale Council, answers UCV Plain Speaker’s questions about whether the increase in Green Deal Communities funding, announced last week as part of the...
View ArticleStop police brutality at Barton Moss
This video was shot yesterday at the Barton Moss anti-fracking protest camp and uploaded to YouTube by Jason Smalley. It shows a horrendously violent arrest of a woman that ends with her having a...
View ArticleValley Organics, source of buckwheat and anti-fracking news
OK, I picked up a 55p bag of yellow split peas at the Coop today, but a wish for buckwheat led me to Valley Organics, where I found not only buckwheat but an irate shopper complaining that I Gas, the …...
View ArticleCouncils could have big role in renewable heat uptake as financial incentives...
At the Calderdale People’s Assembly meeting on energy efficiency and renewable energy last autumn, some people wanted to know about financial incentives from the government for installing renewable...
View ArticleHouseholds can now apply for Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive
The domestic Renewable Heat Incentive is now open and will pay households for renewable heat they generate in their homes. The payments, over seven years, are to offset the cost of installing low...
View ArticleCommunity energy projects held back by government’s “green crap” attitude
Community energy projects are being held back by inadequate Government support, says a research report from University of East Anglia (UEA). Why does this matter? After all, community energy projects...
View ArticleGreen Deal “a disappointing failure” says House of Commons Select Committee
The House of Commons Select Committee on Energy & Climate Change recently reported that the Green Deal has so far been a disappointing failure and its effects on reducing carbon emissions has been...
View ArticleSwitching to a renewable energy supplier
Switching from fossil fuel-generated energy to electricity, heat and gas that are generated from renewable sources will reduce the carbon emissions from the energy used to run your home or other...
View ArticleCalderdale’s Energy Future & the Green Deal
Written in 2012, updated in 2013 and now re-posted. Sorry comments have been lost in the process. Calderdale’s Energy Future (CEF) strategy expects householders to cut 25% of their carbon emissions by...
View ArticleCalderdale Community Energy sets up as Community Benefit Society
In January 2014 the Coalition government announced its Community Energy Strategy. At the same time Calderdale Council’s Cabinet voted to accept proposals for the Council to set up a community benefit...
View ArticleGet full copy of official fracking impacts report before you vote in House of...
Some Calder Valley constituents – who are worried about proposed new fracking legislation in the Infrastructure Bill which MPs are to vote on in the House of Commons this week – have asked Calder...
View ArticleMore the merrier – come along to Hebden Bridge “Bin the Infrastructure Bill”...
Updated 18 Jan Braving the snow, several members of the public turned out for the “Bin the Infrastructure Bill” demo this morning in St George’s Square, Hebden Bridge. The demo was organised by...
View ArticleExpulsions – dead land, dead water
Just reading Saskia Sassen’s “Expulsions – Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy”. Her point is that, using highly complex forms of knowledge and technology, predatory global capitalism now...
View ArticleAnti fracking motion from Trades Council Conference
This is the fracking motion that the 2016 Trades Council Conference passed unanimously on 4th June. Fracking motion The government’s drive to establish a fracking industry was stepped up when it handed...
View ArticleHebden Bridge cleaners aim to sweep fracking companies out of WY Pension Fund
Fossil Free West Yorkshire were out in St George’s Square Hebden Bridge on Saturday 17 September. Armed with dusters and mops to clean up the West Yorkshire Pension Fund, they were collecting...
View ArticleFirst UK Council votes to divest its Pension Fund from fossil fuels
The day after Hebden Bridge fossil fuel cleaners were out in St George’s Square collecting signatures for a petition to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund to divest from fossil fuels, the Waltham Forest...
View ArticleLocal democracy is dead – Tory government overturns Lancs County Council...
Preston New Road Action Group say they are devastated that Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities, has upheld the appeals in favour of Cuadrilla, and overruled local...
View ArticleBlackshaw Head community wind turbine success
Pennine Community Power’s wind turbine in Blackshaw Head has hit the 100,000kWh generation milestone. That’s enough electricity to power more than 25 homes for a year. The community benefit society,...
View ArticleFracking for Dummies
The anti-fracking support meeting this evening decided we need a basic intro to fracking. Here it is.In 2011, the Green Party called for a fracking moratorium, to give time to evaluate the impacts of...
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