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Environmental Protection

Which candidates have signed up to the Let's Talk Rubbish manifesto?

04 May 2022

Just under half of candidates standing for election to councils in north London have signed up to the commitments listed in a manifesto issued by a community group that campaigns for zero-waste policies across the seven boroughs that are represented on the North London Waste Authority.

New analysis further undermines case for incinerator rebuild

27 April 2022

New analysis by environmental and waste consultant Dr Dominic Hogg further undermines the environmental case that the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has been setting out in support of this expensive and 'environmentally disastrous' project.

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Would-be councillors asked to commit to measures to reduce waste

19 April 2022

Candidates standing for election to seven north London councils next month have been signing up to a manifesto published by a community group concerned about poor recycling and reuse rates across the area.

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Environmental forum challenges local politicians to commit to taking climate action

18 April 2022

A manifesto sent by Enfield Climate Action Forum to all candidates standing in the council elections asks them to acknowledge the profound risks created by climate change, the need to both mitigate and adapt to its effects and to protect the most vulnerable people and ensure that measures taken do not cause suffering for the most disadvantaged members of the community. It sets out a list of actions needed to cut waste; reduce car use; cut pollution; ensure that the planning system works to reduce rather than exacerbate climate risk; and mitigate flood risk.

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Clean air coalition calls on would-be councillors to commit to reducing driving in London

05 April 2022

With both diesel and petrol cars responsible for an increasing proportion of harmful air pollution in London, the Clean Cities coalition of campaign groups is calling on all candidates in the council elections to commit to taking steps to reduce driving in the capital.

A crucial moment for clean air

24 March 2022

Campaigners from Mums for Lungs say that the targets the government is setting in its consultation on air quality will not protect our children's health but will ensure another generation of kids with stunted lungs; it will not require government to take any short- or even medium-term action on reducing air pollution effectively. To find out more, join their webinar on Tuesday 29th March.

Green Lanes gets greener this Friday

16 March 2022

Palmers Green Action Team have some exciting news for everyone interested in making our home town live up to the Green in its name. This week the project to create a green link between two parks - Broomfield and Hazelwood Rec - will take a big step forward with the installation of four new trees along Green Lanes, each housed in a large and stylish pot.

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Potential legal costs force change of tack by incinerator campaigners

22 February 2022

Environmental campaigners have abandoned their plan to apply for a judicial review of the decision to build a new and bigger waste incinerator in Edmonton because of doubts about whether they qualilfly for a cap on legal costs. The Stop the Edmonton Incinerator Now coalition will instead try other strategies to derail the North London Waste Authority's incinerator project, including calling on levelling up secretary Michael Gove to send in Government commissioners to investigate the NLWA and take over its powers until it can be put on a sound footing.

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Celebrating human endurance, but concerned about what we are doing to the planet

15 February 2022

The theme of local poet Myra Schneider's 16th collection, Siege and Symphony is celebration and endurance. The first section is devoted to poems about the planet and its present state. The second and third sections include poems about contemporary issues such as homelessness, also poems about women and personal poems. The last and longest poem, which gives the book its title, is a celebration of human resilience, as exemplified by the performance during the siege of Leningrad of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony by a conductor and orchestra enfeebled by months of starvation. In this interview Myra talks about how her poetry has developed over time, explains how her poems come about - many are inspired by paintings or other works of art - and describes her concerns about homelessness and women's inequality.

London's pathway to zero carbon by 2030

01 February 2022

The Mayor of London has selected a preferred pathway to net zero - the Accelerated Green pathway. Amongst other things, achieving this will require a nearly 40 per cent reduction in the total heat demand of our buildings, 2.2 million heat pumps, 460,000 buildings connected to district heating, a 27 per cent reduction in car vehicle km travelled by 2030.

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Lawyers take first steps towards legal action against incinerator contract signing

31 January 2022

Opponents of the planned new Edmonton Incinerator have taken the first step in seeking a judicial review of the North London Waste Authority's decision to sign a contract for its construction. A crowdfunder has been set up to raise money to cover legal costs. A consultation leaflet issued by the NLWA in 2014 makes no reference to incineration, greenhouse gas emissions or the fact that the incinerator would be burning recyclable materials.

Mayor of Enfield under fire as incinerator opponents prepare to march again

14 January 2022

With only four days to go before the contract to build the new Edmonton Incinerator is due to be signed, councillors from the Green Party and Liberal Democrats have criticised the Mayor of Enfield, accusing him of unnecessarily delaying the date of a council meeting to discuss the contract, meaning that it will take place too late to stop contract signature. Meanwhile, the broadbased coalition which unites members of more than 50 campaign groups and opposes the new incinerator is making preparations for what is likely to be the biggest protest yet, a family-friendly march on Sunday afternoon from Edmonton Green to the misleadingly named 'Eco Park' along the North Circular Road.

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Council officers warned of severe financial risks if incinerator contract signing goes ahead

10 January 2022

A Green Party councillor has written to the council's most senior officers warning that proceeding with the planned signature on 18th January of a contract to build the new Edmonton Incinerator would expose the local authority to severe financial risks. He urges them to take steps to withdraw the London Borough of Enfield's support from the scheduled signing of the contract between the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) and the Spanish contractor Acciona.

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Residents asked to urgently back new move to delay incinerator contract signature

05 January 2022

Campaigners concerned about the environmental, health and financial consequences of building a new Edmonton Incinerator are appealing to residents to write urgently to the Mayor of Enfield asking him to convene an extraordinary council meeting in time to block a contract for construction of the new facility.

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Incinerator opponents plead in vain

22 December 2021

To nobody's great surprise, but to many people's great disappointment, at their meeting on 16th December the North London Waste Authority gave the go-ahead for the award of a contract to build a new and larger incinerator at the Edmonton 'Eco-Park'. True to form, the eloquent and well argued calls for a 'pause and review' of the project were brushed aside or simply ignored and north London's very poor recycling figures were blamed on its residents rather than on the failures of the waste authority and the seven borough councils.

On the eve of Edmonton decision, MPs call for immediate moratorium on new incinerator capacity

16 December 2021

Against the background of growing opposition to the Edmonton Incinerator project, MPs have called for a halt to incinerator construction and singled out major issues with the Edmonton proposals

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Incinerator rebuild: Turning up the heat on north London councils

08 December 2021

Environmental campaigners opposed to the construction of a new waste incinerator in Edmonton have this week been pulling out all stops in the final days before the board members of the North London Waste Authority - all of them councillors from north London boroughs, including Enfield - convene to debate the main agenda item - signature of a contract with the Spanish firm Acciona to build the new facility.

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'We've got to a point where it really is terrifying and catastrophic'

17 November 2021

Last week the newsletter featured a pupil at Bowes school pleading for decisive climate action. This week a scientist explains why it's time for her and her colleagues to drop their gentle and unemotional approach and start to put across the urgency of action forcefully.

An open letter to the prime minister from the Climate Coalition

13 October 2021

Read the open letter sent to the prime minister by the Climate Coalition.

The Nightingale Fashion Week - look good while caring for patients and planet

12 October 2021

As its twentieth anniversary approaches, the Nightingale Cancer Support Centre is this year expanding its annual Fashion Show and running the first Nightingale Fashion Week, from 11th to 15th Octobe

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