Zero Carbon York City Council
Measuring what you want to manage
Measuring what you want to manage
No Barrier to the Barrage At last a proposal for a Severn Barrage that ticks all the boxes! The Severn estuary has the second highest rise and fall of tide in the world. For nearly 100 years, since 1925 in fact, people have been proposing that this huge flow of water could be used to generate electricity.
As a Liberal Democrat member and representative over the last 35 years, the environment has always been an issue at the forefront of my campaigning.
I've been a council candidate many times and a London Assembly candidate too, mainly with success so it was a totally different experience last December to stand as a parliamentary candidate in a seat I wasn't expected to win but still wanted to do my best for the party and talk about the things that matters most to me, Green issues in particular.
With climate change now firmly on the agenda of most governments, bold activists like Gretta Thunberg increasingly shaming world leaders for their inaction on environmental matters and, over 4m people dying each year due to air quality issues around the world (World Health Organisation statistics), the driver for a greener, cleaner world and a transition from combustion engine to electric vehicles is pretty clear.
Hollywood actress, Dame Emma Thompson was forced to deny a charge that she was a climate change hypocrite' after flying more than 5000 miles from Los Angeles to join the Extinction Rebellion protests in London.