What a night for the Green Party! We now have four Green MPs to represent us at Westminster. This result is an incredible breakthrough for the Green Party and shows how much appetite there is for something different from the status quo. Many North East Green Party activists contributed to this success, both by travelling […]
River Browney sewage petition
Jonathan Elmer reports that “the Browney regularly floods into Holiday Park as this forms part of the natural flood catchment. On the 17th March this year, community volunteers litter picked the park after flood water had receded. We were horrified to discover condoms and sanitary towel applicators as well as raw sewage deposited by the […]
DCC’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy
By Velela – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7095705 Durham County Council (DCC) is developing a Local Nature Recovery Strategy; you can find out more HERE. A link to their public questionnaire is HERE. County Durham Green Party welcomes this important initiative. The strategy is a blueprint for the recovery of nature, showing where and […]
Net-zero and well paid jobs?
The net-zero economy is not just hot air when it comes to creating well paid jobs which protect our future An article in the Northern Echo HERE celebrates the achievements of Hartlepool which can boast the biggest net-zero economy in the North East, also placing it within the top ten districts in the country. The […]