Community R4C

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Please see updated website and stay in touch! Let us know if you are interested in being involved over the coming months as we look to build a better waste reduction model in Gloucestershire - the opportunity and need are stronger than ever. https://t.co/LdOa9xKFts

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Important Panorama: Virgin Biomass is not a renewable or green energy source - biomass from waste can be. Incineration wastefully destroys rather than harnesses. MUST pre-sort residual waste. Big business greenwash such as Drax distracts. We can do better.

[BBC Panorama @BBCPanorama]

Drax is chopping down trees and taking logs from some of the world’s most precious forests to burn at its Yorkshire power station, which provides 12% of the UK’s renewable energy

The Green Energy Scandal Exposed is on @BBCOne at 8pm and on @BBCiPlayer

https://t.co/HLU6BawieA

[Tom @tomajar]

Lots of great female energy, innovation and care in community action towards a sustainable economy - a sustainable world. eg @CommunityR4C - anyone keen to take them to the next level? #allwelcome #stroud

[Tom @tomajar]

@MarkMooseOwen @PunchlineGlos yuk. The dishonesty of greenwash. Zero to landfill is not a thing. Incinerators are not designed to produce 'energy for homes' - 80% of the energy simply goes up in smoke, most comes from burning plastic (a fossil fuel) very inefficiently, huge carbon footprint. Please be honest!

[Tom @tomajar]

Great thread on the waste / landfill problem in SE Asia (note very different to UK if well managed landfill) - this point is crucial

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Unbelievable. @GrantThorntonUK take almost five years to conclude ... no conclusion! Sham and shame. We (GCC) paid them £500k in the meantime!: Javelin Park: Uncertainty over legality of incinerator contract https://t.co/KAFHh8EFVm

[Luke Walsh @LukeAWalsh]

NGO @CommunityR4C says a financial report into @GlosCC's #EfW deal has been a "whitewash". Council is due to debate the report tomorrow. https://t.co/AJuIwREEkS

[Anthony Burgess-Webb @tbw1]

Legality of £613 million contract for waste incinerator in Gloucestershire which emits nearly 200k tonnes of CO2 per year still in doubt 5 years after signature, according to councillors. https://t.co/RmL75ZtGPK

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Some good points here, but no reference to CR4C? To address plastic we need to tackle the incinerator contract, and that means tackling issues in GCCouncil @Siobhan_Baillie - will you help? re Stroud tackling plastic waste https://t.co/Y3NdZwHoFE

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Somewhere for your plastic film: LETTER OF THE DAY: Are you aware of Tesco's new recycling efforts? https://t.co/pflVvj4tju

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Great to see Gloslive covering this - draft Dec20 report says the issues are very serious - why are the public not being told! whttps://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/councils-accounts-years-ago-cant-5735893?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Go XR! Glos incinerator is biggest public spend, biggest environmental catastrophe - Auditors report to open the lid, we need change https://t.co/Bp1t83sXZD via @YouTube

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

@gloscc has declared a climate emergency - it doesn't mean it. £10k's to shut us up, rather than address the emergency, so determined to cover up the disgusting truth of the incinerator. Greta speaks so wisely, such a local resonance

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

"Let’s be clear — what you are doing is not about climate action or responding to an emergency. It never was. This is communication tactics disguised as politics."

Yesterday I adressed the #AustrianWorldSummit along with Angela Merkel, António Guterres, Alok Sharma and others.

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Fellow warrior Jojo driving the Ecocide debate ...

[Jojo Mehta @Jojo_Mehta]

Excited!! Speaking at noon today with shadow justice minister David Lammy & international lawyer Richard Rogers on defining a law of ecocide - part of London Climate Action Week. Join us here: https://t.co/qK1CdGv2e2

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Here is why we are going to the High Court again this week - this time to defend against a vindictive, vexatious action by Gloucestershire County Council costing taxpayers £10k’s for no reason but revenge. https://t.co/Wnt7Quo0j6

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Want to be in the High Court Wednesday to hear why GCC argue CEO Pete Bunguard should not have to give evidence as to why he wants to shut down a community group? Let us know so we can add you to the list.

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

@GlosCC CEO Pete Bunguard has something to hide - refusing to turn up at the High Court on Friday to explain why he is spending public money to close us down. Thanks for the cross party support - @DavidEDrew is turning up, and many others have written

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

Remember this? @DavidEDrew asking leader of House of Commons for urgent debate on financial impropriety re incinerator contract. Its still going on ... https://t.co/7LrWhPqdpU

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

We're back in the High Court on Wednesday - this one is quite odd - GCC's CEO doesn't want to turn up to give evidence because (in part they claim) its his day off ... More £k's of public money wasted trying to hide the facts.

[Community R4C @CommunityR4C]

https://t.co/rHGLjWhOQ2 Please share this newsletter with your peers ahead of the elections this week. Scandalous mismanagement of a major contract process and many years delay in publishing a value for money audit. Tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers money at stake.