Quite a few people have been speculating on how and why we select certain sites for wind parks. As luck would have it, the Ecotricity Wind Development Team has been working on a number of slides that not only show the selection process, but also examine progress (or more accurately, the lack of progress) towards the regional South West Renewable Energy targets for 2020. Let’s have a look at the targets and progress first…
Archive for October, 2009
Why wind? And why Berkeley Vale?
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Thanks for all the comments – one thing though…
Monday, October 19th, 2009Some of the comments being submitted recently to this blog contravene our blog guidelines. We do not believe in censorship – we want an open, honest and frank discussion. After much internal discussion we have published these comments – with no real content removed, just the offensive parts.
The tone of much of the conversation has sunk well below what we’d deem acceptable. Apart from using unfounded and unsubstantiated ‘facts’, many have decided to resort to personal attacks. This is not conducive to grown up discussion, which is, after all, the reason we have any commenting system at all.
This website is about climate change, it’s about local solutions, it’s about the future and finding out what the people of Stroud REALLY want.
In future all comments not adhering to the comment guidelines will not be published. What we need is an informed debate, one backed up with reason. Not plain old tit-for-tat mud-slinging.
We have decided to ‘flip’ the order of this blog over. So that new content doesn’t get lost and we can bring other voices and arguments into the debate that need to be heard. We have some exciting posts coming up from leading voices in the region which we’ll post in the next few days.
In the meantime we’re looking into the issue of the missing postal coupons. We have used a company we had good faith in. We’re going through the votes we’ve had in to see where the gaps are in responses – anyone out there who didn’t receive a postal vote, can you just email team@stroud5050.org with your post code so we can look into it in more detail?
The bottom line is this IS about the planet where we all have to live. This is our planet and everywhere is our back yard.
Blog Action Day 2009 – The Road to Copenhagen
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
The countdown to what’s been hailed as the most important meeting in history has well and truly begun. All eyes will turn to Copenhagen come mid-December with a hope our world leaders can get together and actually agree for a change! A young lady from Stroud will be heading to the summit as part of the UK Youth Delegation. Her enthusiasm is infectious… So we thought we’d invite her to share her thoughts here on Stroud 5050… especially as today is Blog Action Day with a theme of ‘Climate Change’ – so this is our contribution to that also.
Stroud goes to Copenhagen
5050 is a unique opportunity for Stroud District. The UK is increasingly dependent on Russian gas and oil from the Middle East; hardly ideal for energy security. On top of that we are now at a crucial point in the fight against climate change. After nearly 20 years of endless conferences, discussions, and empty promises to cut emissions we have finally run out of time. This December when the world meets in Copenhagen it will be our last chance to agree an effective global deal. It has to be now because we won’t get another shot. (more…)
