Most of it came from those roads I mentioned - and at the extremities of the village to boot. In other words those responsible were car drivers and passengers passing through the village, not the residents themselves. Shame on the lot of you!
Thursday 26 April 2012
Litter, Litter Everywhere
Wonersh is a relatively small community with a population of about 1800. It is bisected by the B2128 which connects Guildford to Cranleigh and there is a branch off in the centre of the village to the next settlement - Bramley (and the A281). Twice a year we run a community litter pick to tidy the place up. Just look at what 15 of us collected over 1.5 hours last weekend:
Most of it came from those roads I mentioned - and at the extremities of the village to boot. In other words those responsible were car drivers and passengers passing through the village, not the residents themselves. Shame on the lot of you!
Most of it came from those roads I mentioned - and at the extremities of the village to boot. In other words those responsible were car drivers and passengers passing through the village, not the residents themselves. Shame on the lot of you!
Monday 9 April 2012
Greenest Government Ever?
I've banged on about this several times. Now Greenpeace has tried to test opinion as to whether voters belive that we do, indeed, have the greenest government ever. Sadly, only 2% of those questioned appear to have answered in the affirmative. Well, well, well.
What Price Nuclear?
Wow! It's over a month since I last posted anything. Sorry about that to my loyal band of followers. It's been a hectic time. So many organisations have an April year end and silly budgetting arrangements that I've been snowed under with work. So much for semi-retirement! (Well, it could be argued to be semi as I did little over the summer!).
Anyway, 29th February saw the closure of Oldbury PS - something of a blast from the past for yours truly - and then a month later Horizon owners RWE and E.On (who own land at Oldbury) announced that they are not proceeding with their joint venture. I can see that there may well be political reasons for these two companies to pull the plug, and quite possibly the economics also don't appear to stack up, but I think it is a bad news day for UK electricity production. I am convinced that the country needs nuclear and for two large companies with nuclear generating experience to pull out now has rather put the CO2 cat among the emissions reduction pigeons. Wind is just not going to do the job for us which leaves CCS which will be no picnic.
Anyway, 29th February saw the closure of Oldbury PS - something of a blast from the past for yours truly - and then a month later Horizon owners RWE and E.On (who own land at Oldbury) announced that they are not proceeding with their joint venture. I can see that there may well be political reasons for these two companies to pull the plug, and quite possibly the economics also don't appear to stack up, but I think it is a bad news day for UK electricity production. I am convinced that the country needs nuclear and for two large companies with nuclear generating experience to pull out now has rather put the CO2 cat among the emissions reduction pigeons. Wind is just not going to do the job for us which leaves CCS which will be no picnic.
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