Category Archives: Extinction Rebellion

Climate Crisis Commission is a last chance to make a change

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Climate Crisis Commission met for the first time this morning. PETER UNDERWOOD, one of the commission members, explains what its work will involve In the face of the growing threat of climate change, this is our chance … Continue reading →

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It’s time to vote for someone who ‘gets’ the climate emergency

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Worried about flooding locally, and climate change globally? PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, a Green Party candidate, says that these issues should be a central in the London Assembly elections Families and businesses are yet again being left to … Continue reading →

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Town Hall protest as XR demand answers over incinerator

Posted on February 4, 2020 by

Extinction Rebellion will be staging a protest on the Town Hall steps tonight, ahead of the latest meeting of the South London Waste Partnership. The branches of Croydon and Sutton XR will want Stuart Collins, the deputy leader of Croydon … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Refuse collection, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Veolia, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Extinction Rebellion challenge Newman’s hypocrisy on climate

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports on the latest effort to reduce the council leader’s dangerously high level of bullshit emissions The hypocrisy and grandstanding of Croydon Council leader Tony Newman on environmental issues – declaring a climate emergency for … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Sarah Jones MP, Tony Newman, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Croydon’s links with Gatwick ‘incompatible’ with carbon target

Posted on September 14, 2019 by

Environmental activists have reacted with disbelief and barely disguised scorn at the announcement that Croydon Council has accepted a £75,000 sponsorship from Gatwick Airport for the borough’s newest youth centre. Extinction Rebellion protests around the capital earlier this year brought … Continue reading →

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Gatwick buys council’s silence over air pollution with £75,000

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

A matter of weeks after grandstanding in the Town Hall chamber over a vacuous declaration of a climate emergency in Croydon, Tony Newman has linked one of the council’s youth centres to a sponsorship deal with… Gatwick Airport. Newman’s latest … Continue reading →

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Dombey defeated as Sutton goes for zero carbon by 2030

Posted on July 23, 2019 by

Sutton Council last night voted for zero emissions in the borough by 2030 – at least 15 years before the £1bn contract with Viridor for the incinerator at Beddington is due to end. BELLE MONT crunches the numbers Extinction Rebellion … Continue reading →

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