No-one could have missed the recent increase in media coverage of Climate Change and Global Warming. The Green Party is the only political party that has been thinking of solutions for these problems for any real length of time. For decades we have been warning of the consequences of the consumerist free-trade society that we have today.
Could anyone over the age of 40 believe, if they had been told when they were children, just how many different things, from so many different, and far off countries, can be bought today.
There is another problem that you may not have heard about that is equally, if not more, damaging to the way we live. That is Peak Oil. Peak oil is the point where oil supply can no longer meet demand, and never will again. Some believe we have reached it already, others think it is less than 7 years away. If you think it ridiculous then bear this in mind: The USA passed peak oil, internally, in 1974 and has been a net importer, growing every year, ever since.
So, things need to change. The Green Party wants to bring about changes that produce a sustainable quality of life for us all.
One way to achieve that locally is for Medway Council to opt in to the Sustainable Communities Act
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12th Mar 2010 Kingsnorth Progresses in the Competition for So Called Clean-Coal This evening, Kent News reported that E.ON's plans for a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth are progressing following the announcement that they have reached the next stage of a government competition. |
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7th Mar 2010 Blog Site Launched by Green Parliamentary Candidate Trish Marchant, the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Gillingham and Rainham, has recently launched her blog site. |
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5th Mar 2010 Medway Green Party Stands Parliamentary Candidates in all Three Constituencies For the first time, the Medway Green Party has parliamentary candidates standing in Medway's three constituencies: Rochester and Strood, Gillingham and Rainham plus Chatham and Aylesford. |
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1st Mar 2010 Protest at the Paddock Medway Green Party members Paul Cumming-Benson and William Knott joined other Medway residents to protest against the chopping down of trees at the Paddock. |
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27th Feb 2010 The Paddock's Trees are Chopped It will come as no surprise to those who have been following the Paddock and the issues with the bus station that work on chopping down the trees had already started. |
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24th Feb 2010 Response to UKIP's 'Ban the Burka' Trish Marchant, the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Gillingham and Rainham, wrote to the Medway Messenger in response to Bob Oakley's letter suggesting the UK follow the French government's decision to ban the burka. |
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30th Jan 2010 A Student Guide to Animal Experimentation The Green Party is opposed, on scientific and ethical grounds, to the harmful use of animals in research and for medical purposes and would ban all research and medical practice which harms animals, including harmful procedures used to obtain animal derived materials. The Medway Green Party therefore welcomes a student guide to animal experimentation - 'What is wrong with animal experiments? A guide for students' - launched recently by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). |
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26th Jan 2010 Save the Trees at the Paddock At least 18 trees are under threat in Chatham because of the new dynamic bus station. If you care about these trees please act quickly. Send a letter of objection to Amanda Hutchinson, Planning Dept., Medway council, Gun wharf, Dock rd, Chatham, ME4 4TR. Quoting planning reference No.MC/09/2545 There is a planning meeting on Wednesday 27th January at 7pm. |
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8th Nov 2009 E.oN Gone E.oN have announced that they will not be going forward with their plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth for two to three years. They claim that the economic downturn and reduced demand makes it uneconomic to go ahead. |
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6th Oct 2009 Medway Greens Meet Ridge Meadow Campaigners Medway Green Party met for an autumn fund-raising barbecue at the weekend and to meet representatives of the Save Ridge Meadow school campaign. Although the weather was a bit rough for a BBQ it was a perfect setting for the way the Ridge Meadow reps felt. They have battled against the councils intentions of closing their school and have not given up yet. |
