We are a pressure group concerned with all aspects of the environment, especially in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. On these pages you will find news and comment about planning, climate, gm crops, pollution, transport, food, re-cycling, chemicals and anything else which affects our environment. Use the box below to search our site
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Next Event, Our current programme has now finished, we'll have a new one out in February. Dates for your diary, Potato Day, Sat 4th Feb, 9am-3pm, Montford Parish Hall, for details see www.shropshireorganicgrowers.org.uk S.FoE Jan meting, Monday Feb 6th 7.30pm, MEA offices, The Pump House, Chester St. Discussing posible next steps re the incinerator.. All welcome. Transition Town tree planting Thurs Feb 16th 10am, see www.transitiontownshrewsbury.org.uk for details. Beyond the Pole, TTS film, Old Post Office milk st 7.30, again see TTS site for details. Green Shropshire Conference, Sat 3rd March, Church Stretton School, more details on events page Sat 24th/Sun 25th March (tbc) Eco Buildings Weekend, organised by Transition Shrewsbury with help from Shrewsbury Friends of the Earth. Please contact us if you have a building you'd like to open that weekend. News Unfortunately we lost the Battlefield incinerator appeal. We're very disappointed and surprised by this. We're looking into whether we can take any further action, we will update this site as soon as we have made a decision on this. The Community Christmas Carboard Collection scheme set up in Shrewsbury to replace the service withdrawn by Veolia was very successful, with 1,000 people participating, 7 tonnes collected and £400 donated to Hope House. Congratulations to all involved, particularly Katy Anderson and Alison Thomas. S.FoE has two new co-ordinators. Frank Oldaker and Barbara Philips have taken over as joint co-ordiantors of the group from Judith Rice. We think this will make us a stronger group and be less stressful for those involved. Judith will still be involved with the group, many thanks to her for all her hard work over the last two years. Transition Town Shrewsbury's application to Energyshare for £15,000 for further studies re a hydroscheme for the weir at Castlefields was successful, well done to all involved! The Incinerator inquiry is now finally over, the decision is due by Jan 10th. We feel the inquiry went well, Veolia's evidence was often patchy, sometimes plain wrong and often not convincing. The alliance of Shropshire Council, Battlefield 1403 and ourselves (backed up by Michael Ryan, Steve Boulding, Nick Hall, Barry Haines and others) put up a rigorous, intense, detailed and reasonable defence of the planning committee's rejection of the proposal last year. All we can do now is cross our fingers and wait. Many thanks to Keith Kondakor (especially), Tim Hill and Shlomo Dowen who all contributed hugely to our campaign with either little or no remuneration. Thanks also to all the S.FoE group members who helped out and all those who've donated to our fighting fund. We had good coverage on the Politics Show on Sun 9th see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kxx72 Our petition is now closed, we gained nearly 2,000 signatures, thanks to all who helped. It's not too late though to send us a donation to help us cover our costs, see the Incinerator page for details (and for more press clips), thank you.       Veolia's Nottinghamshire Incinerator Turned Down at Appeal! Fri May 27th for details see the Incinmerator page.. Visit to Tudor Griffiths, 8th April. this was a very interesting visit to an impressive new commercial recycling facility. For full details see http://shropshirecomposters.blogspot.com/2011/04/visit-to-tudor-griffiths-landfill.html  News Flashes March 20th 2011, the Bus Cuts meet on Mar 19th, was attended by over 100 people, various actions were agreed, for more details see www.transitiontownshrewsbury.org.uk. March 10th 2011, Shrewsbury FoE are now registered as one of the Rule 6 parties defending Shropshire Councils decision to refuse the incinerator planning application, and we're launching an appeal to cover the costs, more details on the incinerator page.
Feb 2011, notes from our monthly business meetings and our co-ordinator's monthly report can now be accessed on the new Meeting Notes page. Jan 19th 2011 Shropshire Council confirm NWRR to go back in the bottom drawer, see the NWRR page for details 14th Sept 2010 Judy Coleridge wins prestigious Earth Mover award for the Green Guide ***************************************** |
