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
20mph limits assurance: It was FOE wot won it!
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 ,
Recycling: Who’s the wrecker on the JCB?
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
River Stewardship in Action: Volunteer teams reduce flood risk in Mytholmroyd
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
The Tour giveth and the Tour taketh away
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
The new ‘Green Calderdale’ website
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
Widespread impacts of neonicotinoids on bees ‘impossible to deny’
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