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.
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15th Jun 2008 Climate Camp 2008 The Climate Camp is coming to Kingsnorth. Last year they did an excellent job of highlighting the case against the expansion of airports when they camped on the land for the third runway at Heathrow. Now they are coming to Medway because the new power station represents an even more massive danger. |
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23rd Apr 2008 E.oN ask for a delay E.on want John Hutton to delay his decision on the planning application for Kingsnorth power station. They want to run the first industrial scale test of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Britain and need time to evaluate the technology available. |
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18th Feb 2008 Kingsnorth plans now with DBERR The 'Medway Green Party' have sent a letter opposing the plans to build this, unnecessary, coal fired power station. We would urge you to send a letter too. |
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13th Feb 2008 Airports, Tunnels and roads. Boris wants a fog bound airport in the Thames estuary, near Cliffe in Medway, and an engineering team wants to build a tunnel under the river from Canvey to Cliffe. Then tens of thousands more houses could be built to accommodate the bulging population of the South East and more roads and more concrete and tarmac until it's all gone. |
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23rd Jan 2008 Coal may go up in Smoke It now seems that coal is already in decline, New Scientist (No.2639) 19 Jan 2008. 'Peak coal' may be a term that we have to come to terms with, alongside 'Peak oil'. |
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10th Jan 2008 What a Nuclear Disaster. The government has given the go-ahead for new nuclear power stations. |
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4th Jan 2008 Kingsnorth plans get through. Medway council have been unable to oppose E.ons plans for Kingsnorth power station. |
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21st Dec 2007 Fuel prices Protests and Peak Oil With the protests against fuel prices we are seeing a glimpse of the inevitable future. |
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21st Dec 2007 Bali both Good and Bad We of Medway Green Party feel both pleased and disappointed with the outcome of the Bali negotiations. |
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13th Dec 2007 The Economics of Climate Change The argument of sceptical environmentalists, economists who believe it cheaper to spend money fixing the problems caused by Climate Change (CC) than to spend money stopping CC happening in the first place, have been completely smashed by a better form of cost-benefit analysis. |
