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29 October 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones calls the suggestion that London’s residents will not notice the noise and disruption of fracking trucks due to existing high levels of traffic and noise “truly insulting” and calls for the Mayor to prioritise switching to renewables. A new energy firm, London Local Power’s (LLP), have bid to frack three […]
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28 October 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson welcomes the Mayor’s support of the Agent of Change principle, citing it as “an important step towards protecting live music venues in our capital”. The Mayor of London has responded positively to a call from Darren Johnson, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, to protect London’s live music venues. […]
Green MEP Jean Lambert condemns the Foreign Office’s stance, calling it “a crying shame that the apparent compassion of British support ends at the seashore outside the EU” and expresses her concern at those fleeing from Syria and Eritrea across “treacherous sea routes”. Responding to the Foreign Office’s refusal to take part in future searchand […]
27 October 2014 by sianberry
London remains the region with the least solar panels and is falling even further behind, as it increased less than 2 percent in the last quarter with only 1 in 231 London households having solar panels. New Feed-in-Tariff statistics published by the Department of Energy & Climate Change have shown that: London remains the region […]
Camden and Islington Green Parties demand the Ultra Low Emission Zone be extended and brought forward as Green Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones describes the 4,300 people in London a year who die prematurely due to air pollution “one of the biggest scandals of our age” Smog in Canary Wharf. Photograph courtesy of Matthew Buck. […]
22 October 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson criticises the Mayor of London for failing to spend half of his budget for Superhighways with only the first four to be completed by the end of his term. CS7 on Clapham Road, photograph courtesy of Stephen Craven. An update provided by Transport to London to the London Assembly budget […]
21 October 2014 by sianberry
Scott Ainslie, Lambeth Green Party Councillor, and Green MP Caroline Lucas call for Lambeth Council to follow the recent trend of divesting from fossil fuels and investing in more profitable renewable energy. Caroline Lucas protesting against fracking in 2013. Photograph courtesy of the BBC. Lambeth Green Party Councillor Scott Ainslie has called on Lambeth Council […]
“Welfare reforms are hitting the poorest and the most vulnerable in our communities” says Hackney Green Spokesperson, as the rise in total evictions in Hackney over the last year are a direct result of the rise in those due to arrears. Frampton Park Estate, Hackney, photograph courtesy of Dr Neil Clifton. 98 people were evicted […]
“Parliament needs to listen and people should have the right to get their voices heard” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones, who is also a former member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, citing the police’s “duty to facilitate peaceful protest in this country”. Jenny Jones was arrested this morning at Parliament Square when visiting the protestors there. […]
20 October 2014 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson urges Boris Johnson to complete cycling superhighways and extensions swiftly, with two fatalities in the last year on a route due to be improved. Ludgate Circus has been the site of the death of two cyclists in the last year and eight deaths or serious injuries since Boris Johnson was […]