NEWS IN BRIEF
(EP=Nottingham Evening Post; FOE=national FOE)
12,000 people around East Midlands Airport could be suffering from noise by 2030 (CPRE, 11 Jun)
National Trust opposes expansion of East Midlands Airport (EP, 6 Jun)
Also see National Trust website for Blue Skies report on how airport expansion will damage British tourism as well as the environment
Network Rail destroys trees and wildlife near Leicester and elsewhere (Guardian, 7 May)
FOE and CPRE lobby rail passengers in Nottingham to oppose more pollution at East Midlands Airport (EP, 1 May)
Demonstration at Government Office against GATS (World Trade Organisation plan to privatise services (People & Planet, 13 Mar)
Protesters fail to stop development at Penniment Farm, Mansfield (EP, 22 Jan) (see 18 Nov, below).
Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill protest against radioactive emissions from Eastcroft (EP, 20 Jan)
Hundreds demonstrate against Airport expansion (EP, 25 Nov)
Joan Ruddock MP to introduce Doorstep Recycling Bill (FOE, 26 Nov)
A bill to provide doorstep recycling collections will be introduced to Parliament early next year. It has been promoted by FOE and other groups. FOE estimates it could create 364 jobs in Nottingham City by 2010, plus 336 jobs in Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe.
Mansfield District Council taken to court over greenfield development (EP, 18 Nov)
Residents Against Penniment Industrial Development (RAPID) claim in the High Court that planning permission for a massive greenfield development was illegal because of no proper environmental assessment.
Nottingham FOE backs incinerator campaign (EP, 16 Nov)
Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill launched (EP, 11 Nov)
City Council to back 4th Trent crossing? (EP, 15 Nov)
Graham Chapman, Vice Chair of Development Agency, wants to trash the green belt between Radcliffe-on-Trent and Holme Pierrepont to open up Colwick for development. But where will the extra traffic go at each end?
County may back 2nd runway at Airport (EP, 15 Nov)
The County Council will discuss expansion of East Midlands Airport on 20 Nov.
Greenbelt station go-ahead
The Government has ignored its own guidance in allowing a park-and-ride station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
www.nottsagenda21.org.uk
Notts has launched a Local Agenda 21 website. It includes topics from their strategy "A plan for a better quality of life".
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Global campaign to defend Biosafety Protocol against GM threat (FoE, 11 Sep)
UK gardeners are destroying Irish peat bogs (Independent on Sunday, 27 Jul)
Blair's Strategy Unit says no benefit in growing GM foods (Guardian, 12 Jul)
UN Biosafety Protocol to become law on 11 September - it could protect biodiversity from GM organisms (FoE, 13 Jun)
Government will back Joan Ruddock's Recycling Bill - kerbside collections for all (FOE, 10 Jun)
UK votes to keep using toxic aldicarb on vegetables (FOE, 19 Mar)
Supermarket Code of Practice hasn't protected farmers (FOE, 17 Mar)
New labour think tank says aviation must be taxed (FOE, 3 Mar)
Pesticide levels in some food exceed limits (FOE, 26 Feb)
Britain failing to make progress on key quality of life measures (FOE, 24 Feb)
Treasury waters down commitment on renewable energy and carbon dioxide reduction (FOE, 24 Feb)
Landfill sites reduce house prices (DEFRA, 21 Feb)
Green groups back London congestion charging (FOE, 14 Feb)
Traffic levels rise again (FOE, 6 Feb)
More old people will die from cold homes: Government may cut fuel poverty programme (FOE, 30 Jan)
FOE releases Deutsche Bank report at World Economic Forum showing which oil companies would benefit from war or peace in Iraq (FOE, 26 Jan)
Evidence of GM cross contamination released by Government on Christmas Eve (FOE, 2 Jan)
US firms fined after food crops contaminated with GM pig vaccine (Guardian, 24 Dec 02)
Supermarkets fail to back British apples (FOE, 25 Nov)
Cancer genes are being used to engineer new crop plants by speeding up evolution (FOE, 24 Nov)
FOE exposes global corporate interests behind the Prestige oil tanker disaster off Galicia (Observer, 24 Nov)
FOE tells CBI to stop lobbying against the planet (FOE, 25, Nov)
Newborn babies get 85 times dioxin limit in breast milk (Independent on Sunday, 17 Nov)
(The government is consulting on dioxins - to respond see DEFRA website.)
US destroys soya contaminated with GM maize grown to produce pharmaceuticals (FOE, 15 Nov)
Communities Speak Out on Waste (FOE report, Jun 02)
More from Less
A report from FOE considers how we can use less resources while reducing inequalities and improving our quality of life. £4.99 plus £1.50p&p from national FOE website.
Protest is a right - violence is wrong!
In July 2001, FOE Europe launched a campaign to defend the right to peaceful protest.
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