Anthony Rae for FOE 9th February 2015 The biggest issue for Calderdale Friends of the Earth in 2015 is to make progress tackling the increasingly serious issue of climate change, not only here in the UK, but internationally as well.
24th December 2014 Anthony Rae for FOE The conclusion of COP20 with the agreement in Peru on 14th December of the Lima Call for Climate Action – which, said the press release ‘puts the world on track’ for COP21 in
12th November 2014 Get Calderdale Buzzing! was launched in June as our local contribution to a much wider national campaign to promote the health of bees and other pollinators – seeing that they do so much for us – and
12 October 2014 Anthony Rae for FOE: On Tuesday I attended Calderdale’s Planning Committee to speak in favour of the four turbine Gorpley windfarm near Todmorden. The project developer is Kelda (the parent of Yorkshire Water) and you can access
27th August 2014 Anthony Rae writes for FOE: The Halifax Courier of 22nd August reports: ‘The new Conservative Calderdale Council leadership have assured Labour members that they will implement the 20mph policy they were set to introduce.’ Well, actually ,
24th July 2014 Anthony Rae writes for FOE The news that, in a bizarre incident, a man running amok with a JCB has trashed one of the Council’s five recycling sites at Eastwood, should not allow us to forget the
Summer 2014 One of the responses to reduce the risk of flooding following the devastating events in the Upper Calder Valley in 2012 is a ‘river stewardship’ programme to remove vegetation and debris from the riverbanks. This is part of
7th July 2014 Anthony Rae writes It was a great day, thousands of people (here in Hebden Bridge, and everywhere else en route), well organised, beautiful weather … and after a long wait as the publicity caravan claxoned passed jettisoning
Anthony Rae, who manages Green Calderdale for Calderdale Sustainability Forum (CSF) and Calderdale Friends of the Earth, explains the thinking behind the new site: “The FOE local group campaigns on quite a number of issues (read about them <a href="http://greencalderdale.org
Here’s what the BBC’s Matt McGrath is reporting: “Neonicotinoid pesticides are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial species and are a key factor in the decline of bees, say scientists. Researchers, who have carried out a four-year