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Category Archives: Fracking
Tories pose real threat to Selsdon Vale with ‘attack on nature’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Prime Minister may have sacked her Chancellor and his replacement might have scrapped almost all of the Trussonomic financial policies announced just three weeks ago. But, says PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, there’s no sign that the Tories … Continue reading
Crime and livestock attacks on Farthing Downs cause concern
Croydon councillors will turn up in Coulsdon this afternoon on the hottest day of the year, maybe the hottest day ever recorded in these islands, to bask in the sun and in the reflected glory of the decades of hard … Continue reading
Posted in City Commons, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Fracking, Friends of Farthing Downs, South London Downs NNR, Wildlife
Tagged City Commons, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Farthing Downs, Happy Valley, London Borough of Croydon, Riddlesdown, Sanderstead
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Lambert and Lucas focus on the fracking threat in the capital
Caroline Lucas, the country’s first Green MP, and London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert will be in Croydon this afternoon to highlight the threat of fracking in the capital. Lambert and Lucas will visit a potential fracking site just a few … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fracking
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Croydon, Environment, Fracking, Green Party, Jean Lambert, shale gas, Tory
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Greens hold back from promising to scrap £1bn incinerator
The Green Party launched its local election manifesto for Croydon yesterday, confirming that it will field a full slate of 70 candidates across the whole of the borough. The Greens seem poised to benefit on voting day next month from … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fly tipping, Fracking, Gordon Ross, Knife crime, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, South Croydon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, incinerator, London Borough of Croydon, Shasha Khan, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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Jones critical of ‘crass stupidity’ of national flood planning
What can be done to avoid the worst impact of the floods that have blighted large areas of Kenley and Purley, and closed a major A-road in the area for the best part of a month? Jenny Jones, the 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Coulsdon, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fracking, Gardening, Jenny Jones, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Environment, flooding, floods, Green Party, Jenny Jones, Kenley, London, London Assembly, Purley, Tory
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“Cheap” Hoar is now taking a fracking liberty in Waddon
Senior Croydon Conservative councillor Simon “I’m Cheap But I’m Not Free” Hoar says he “doesn’t see anything wrong” with allowing oil and gas multi-nationals to drill under people’s homes with exploratory fracking. Prime Minister David Cameron fired the starting gun … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Coulsdon, Croydon Greens, Environment, Fracking, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Simon Hoar, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Fracking, Green Belt, Labour, London Assembly, London Borough of Croydon, Simon Hoar, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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