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PM and MP? Is there a Balance?

Posted by Lizabeth on Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:25:56

Posted earlier by Lizabeth on Wednesday, 29 November 2006

Now a question for David

"Is it easy or even possible to balance numerous global commitments as PM with a duty to your constituents as their MP? Would you ensure that during your unavoidable absences from your constituency there is always someone to listen to the concerns of the people who voted for you?"

Think Global, act Local, has been the cry to combat climate change. Currently the PM appears to be acting Global and not thinking local. His constituents in Sedgefield are being disproportionably disadvantaged for the rest of us. Piloted in Sedgefield and Wear Valley Councils on 29 /06/04, Local Authority members and officers were informed on how to respond to renewable energy developments by a ‘Local Authority Awareness Raising CD' This was prepared by the North East Renewable Energy Group NEREG

The result has been to place councillors and planners in an undemocratic situation as they respond to wind generating station applications. Ignoring the valid objections from those who elected them they are thus giving consent to a technology which is not, in the North East, performing as expected..

More details are on http://www.wind-farm.co.uk/

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Posted by ricardo on Sunday, 24 December 2006 21:38:39

I agree this is an important issue. There is a lot of evidence to say wind farms are not an effective way to combat climate change but this is being ignored by decision makers in their desire to comply with the Kyoto agreement. The experience of other countries supports this view. I think we are wasting an awful lot of tax payers money on a proposal that is likely to bring little overall benefit but have significant and detrimental effects on the landscape and those who live nearby as well as potentially causing stability problems for the Grid. See the E.ON Wind Report of 2005.

Posted by Lynne on Thursday, 04 January 2007 09:06:43

As a resident of Butterwick, living less than one mile form the proprosed site of yet another wind farm in County Durham, I am extremely concerned about my immediate environment and also of the devaluation of my property that myself and my husband have worked for all our lives. We have never accepted benefits or any other government hand out and our property was going to be our pension, not now!
Instead of waiting to see if wind power really is the answer, we seem to be bombarded with applications for wind farms along with the bribe to the community of a fund that really will not equate to any amount of money to the area.
Do the general public realise that huge government subsidies are building these white elephants? and also how rich the land owner will be when he recieves the annual rent for doing nothing but owning lots of land?
The information insinuates that these wind turbines will be providing enough power for all the homes in the area twice over.
I look forward to my free electricity! only joking!

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