Al who? and why? We need explanations David not 'green taxation'.
Posted by Lizabeth on Sunday, 11 February 2007 21:41:50
Webcameron has printed many issues shirked by the press and yet which should be in the public domain
We are grateful for their contribution in alerting the public to a variety of issues .
It is also evident that climate change is not seen by all as a greater threat than terrorism. Education,Health,,Jobs.Housing,Taxation and the Democratic deficit we are experiencing certainly are.
Yet has not the North East has been sold down the Tyne, Tees and Wear as the PM acts globally and does not act locally./ MPs , local councillors and have been 'greened' to believe wind turbines will combat climate change. Sedgefield area is under threat and with no effective MP to help since they are the PM's constituency. the democratic deficit is increasing
The following abstract from the Scotsman sums up my concerns regarding the use of Al Gore's film. showing who introduced it to the UK and who is paying for it to be shown in schools. It also shows details of Scottish Power's request to OFGEM
ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT ([email protected]) Dec 4th
Every schoolchild in Scotland is to be offered the chance to see former US vice-president Al Gore's film about the dangers of global warming under a scheme by energy company Scottish Power.
The firm, a major wind farm developer which also runs the coal-fired Longannet power station, is prepared to commit "tens of thousands of pounds" to the project and is currently in negotiations with the Scottish Executive to secure its backing.
Scottish Power, which has also given copies of Mr Gore's book of the same name, An Inconvenient Truth, to hundreds of its staff, plans to pay for cinema screenings for older children in primary schools and all secondary pupils. The firm is currently discussing with the Executive how pupils could be bussed to cinemas, and to cinema owners about times for screenings.
The idea came about after Stephen Dunn, the company's director of human resources and communications, bought the book in the US while visiting a company owned by Scottish Power.
"On the way home, I picked up the book in a bookstore in Oregon. We flew right back to the UK and I basically read the entire book during the night on the flight," he said.
"We are working with the Scottish Executive to see if we can put together a funding package to get this film viewed by schoolchildren across Scotland.
"We are putting up the cost of the cinemas and the cost of getting the film and we're just looking for a bit of support from the Executive."
Scottish Power in wind-farm land row RICS 6 /01/06
Scottish Power has applied to the UK's gas and energy watchdog to be granted compulsory purchase powers to acquire land for wind-farm schemes in Scotland. The energy giant made the controversial application in the name of its subsidiary CRE Power under the 1989 Electricity Act.
CRE Energy has insisted that its application to Ofgem would be used only to acquire small areas of land for developments associated with wind-farms, rather than for the farms themselves.
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