19 May 2022 / 18 April 2024 by colinjones
GREENER LITTLEHAM AND LANDCROSS – A talk by 361 Community Energy Reduce your energy bills Insulate your home Lower your carbon footprint Wednesday, 8 June 2022: 7 – 9pm at Littleham Village Hall, EX39 5HR
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8 May 2022 / 18 April 2024 by colinjones
At the last Community & Resources committee meeting of Torridge, councillors heard that the government has awarded us £1 million over the next 3 years to replace funding we used to get from the EU. Curious as to how the figures compared I asked the council officers. Unfortunately exact numbers weren’t immediately available but I […]
5 May 2022 / 18 April 2024 by colinjones
From Councillor Peter Christie’s weekly column: Councillor Claire Hodson recently presented the ‘Motion for the Ocean’ to Torridge which passed unanimously as it is aimed at producing a ‘clean, healthy and productive ocean’ around our coastline. This is obviously a ‘good thing’ of course but we are all aware that South West Water continues to […]
3 May 2022 / 3 May 2022 by colinjones
29 April 2022 / 18 April 2024 by colinjones
The news that the submarine cable manufacturer XLCC has signed a contract to use British steel to make the cables linking renewable energy production in Morocco to Alverdiscott would seem to show the scheme is viable. The first of four cables, each 2361 miles long, should be in place around 2026 – great news and […]
15 April 2022 / 18 April 2024 by colinjones
So the government is going for new nuclear power stations – a rather bizarre decision given they are the only major energy technology that has actually increased in price over the last decade and have become notorious for going vastly over budget. Whenever the spectre of nuclear power is raised again I always recall how, […]
