Tag archive for ‘environment’
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Climate change, dividing Conservatives
Tim Montgomerie, editor of ConHome, has an interesting article on that site today, writing up some of his thoughts for Radio Four’s The Week in Westminster.
“I make the case that the issue of climate change has the potential to divide the Conservative Party in the same way that Europe has divided us in the past,” he writes.
On the question of whether it is possible to do anything to stop climate change, Tim Montgomerie says he largely dissents.
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Stuck in the Olympic slow lane
Greens are more than unhappy today at the announcement of BMW as the official sponsor of the London 2012 Games. Darren Johnson AM is disappointed that the Games will not be used to showcase the latest clean vehicle technology. He says: “The Mayor wants London to be the electric vehicle capital of Europe, so why not ensure that all the cars and coaches are part of that future? It is disappointing that most of the Olympic vehicles will be no [...]
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PQT – 66 per cent against c-charge western extension removal
As Dave Hill reports, Conservative Assembly member Roger Evans has blogged about this week’s PQT in Brixton. Information flowed thick and fast from Brixton on the night via Twitter, including informative tweets by the Liberal Democrat head of office at City Hall Nick Carthew.
In answer to the question “Do you support the removal of the Western Extension?”, 66 per cent responded “no” and 34 per cent responded “yes”. Roger Evans concludes that “as the WEZ doesn’t cover Brixton, all this really [...] -
Boris Johnson’s BA Tube ads
The question of London government’s close relationship with British Airways has been covered in the past but a comment on this thread drew me back to it.
As is pointed out, you can now find official mayoral posters on the Tube system advertising British Airways. Here’s the ad [left].
In addition to being mayoral ads, one assumes that these are Transport for London/London Underground poster sites, rather than commercial poster sites. TfL sites are given over to main transport messages to passengers, [...] -
New York gives a lead on climate change
The recent Climate Week in New York, part of the build-up to Copenhagen, is an example of how London has fallen behind and lost the leadership on climate change – having set the pace for many years.
NYC’s climate week declared:
“Climate Week NY°C is a partnership between The Climate Group, the United Nations, the UN Foundation, the City of New York, the Government of Denmark, Tck Tck Tck Campaign and Carbon Disclosure Project. As secretariat, The Climate Group [...] -
Thames Estuary airport – Boris Johnson’s “big idea”
Adam Bienkov has posted these thoughts on the latest twists and turns of Boris Johnson’s fantasy airport island. Adam draws our attention to Boris Johnson’s remark today that “I do not have an aspiration to construct such an airport.”
This must be news to a number of people, not least his deputy, Kit Malthouse, who has been arguing that it could be built within ten years and promoting the policy at regular intervals to the media.
“We have had an incredible amount [...] -
Air quality row – how drivers are put first at the expense of London’s overall interests
The London Evening Standard today has the story that there has been a bust-up between the mayor and the government over Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend the next stage of the Low Emission Zone and abolish the western half of the congestion charge zone.
Greater London was made into Europe’s largest low emission zone under Ken Livingstone. The zone imposes stricter pollution standards on lorries.
During the mayoral election Johnson’s campaign team sought to hide his real view on the issue, but [...] -
Ann Widdecombe is wrong when she calls climate change a theology
There are few things in politics more tedious than those climate change-sceptics who complain that a green agenda to tackle the effects of carbon emissions is some sort of deception or something that no one now even dare question. Ann Widdecombe’s Total Politics interview with Iain Dale is a case in point.
She tells Iain Dale:
“…there is a deep unease that we’re rushing in virtually to a theology: those who asked questions are ‘deniers’. The language is theological. We’re rushing in [...]
