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
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.
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
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
@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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
@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
"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.
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
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
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.
@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
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
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.
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.