Tag: Climate Change
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Energy Sovereignty
Why aren’t Reform UK pursuing the energy sovereignty that electrification, heat pumps and renewable generation can offer the UK? Why fuck all that up to pursue the dwindling fossil fuels left in the North Sea if you aren’t going to nationalise the little of what’s left there and prioritise using it for the national transition?…
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Rural Futuring
‘I want to believe in it. I want to go on believing in it. ButI cannot quite yet. Because we haven’t yet arrived. We are still undeniably at the bridge. The liminal chaos clings to our garments and clouds our vision. We must move. We must create this future. We must create it before we…
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Way to Go
[This article develops a recent Facebook post with more maps and discussion of cycle route potentials] I received communication this week that ‘the King Charles III England Coast Path (KC3ECP), and its associated accessible coastal margin is now open around the full Dengie peninsula.’ There were some caveats in the communication, which I copy below…
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Hostile Environment
It’s a Quintuple! The Gods have spoken. Communities Secretary Steve Reed came down from Mount Westminster this weekend and proclaimed that 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five local authorities. I was surprised that UK Gov had not gone with the three unitary authority model proposed by Essex County Council, which…
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The Lost Words
By national government edict the 15 councils in ‘Greater Essex’ must reorganise to form new unitary authorities through a process of Local Government Reorganisation. This will change the current two-level council system into one in which there are new, bigger councils called unitary councils. I’ve been reviewing the four competing proposals submitted by existing councils…
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Dengie Marshes Wind Farm
The proposed Dengie Marshes Wind Farm is moving forward into a phase of public survey and persuasion. (A company called Dengie Marshes Wind Farm Limited was incorporated on 18 October 2024 and shares directors with Blenheim Renewables, the company which initiated the project.) The project has a website and is holding a series of consultation…
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Planetary
The post discusses the evolving relationship between global ecological crises and local actions, emphasizing bioregionalism’s focus on sustainable living within local environments. It critiques contemporary political responses to climate change, highlighting tensions between capitalist interests and emerging leftist alternatives. The text questions the effectiveness of local actions detached from broader, non-capitalist movements focused on global…
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Off Target
On the 12th of November, I attended the Essex County Council Autumn Climate Summit ‘Enabling Net Zero New Homes in Essex’. I was excited that the Summit showed a level of ambition aligned with the gravity of the national net zero task and our international commitments. (You can watch a recording of the Summit here).…
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Year One
Last week, we celebrated the first year of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership (DCAP) with a social at the Victoria Inn. More folk turned up for the social in the pub than regularly do for the monthly meet-ups in Burnham Council Chamber. An unsurprising but salutary reminder that an open formal meeting is not for…
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Zeroing In
I am grateful to Tony Fittock (District Councillor for Althorne ) for letting me know that the process of creating a new Local Development Plan for Maldon District has begun. So my previous post on the matter revealed my own ignorance of the Maldon District Local Development Plan (LDP) Review: Issues and Options Consultation, which…
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