Archive
A collection of press releases, articles, letters etc. from the group's various activities. Under development. NB "PDF" files open in a new window.
Newspaper Coverage
- Article in the EADT: MP backs eco-farming campaign (JPG image) -- 26/10/10
- In the Essex Chronicle: Group spreads misinformation and creates hysteria -- 29/7/10 (jpeg file)
- A short piece in the Colchester Gazette: Windfarm plan is refused -- 14/7/10 (jpeg file)
- By Jamie Forsyth in the Maldon & Burnham Standard: New windfarm to go ahead? -- 7/7/10 (jpeg file)
- Article in Gazette: Green Group Urges Speedy Ban on Cars -- 25/6/10 (large .JPG image)
- Article in The Times: France imports UK electricity as plants shut -- 3/7/09
- Article in Gazette: Fears that new nuclear power station will destroy oyster fishery. -- 7/5/09
- From the ENDS bulletin: Slash renewables target to protect nuclear, says EDF -- 12/3/09
- Article in Gazette: 'Power bosses due in court' -- 30/12/08
- Nuclear power article on front page of Essex Chronicle -- 29/11/07 (.PDF)
- Letsrecycle.com on Essex Stanway Hall Quarry site approval by Essex County Council -- 18/10/07 (.DOC)
- Essex County Standard Article ''Plastic plea to shoppers'' -- 19/06/06 (.PDF)
Articles and Documents
- Our letter of objection to Crouch Street Cycle Route (.DOC)
- Our response to the Middlewick windfarm proposal (.DOC)
- Natural England's letter about Middlewick (.DOC)
- Colchester FoE Response to Waste Options Consultation (.DOC)
- CFoE statement of support for Hockley Farm, Bradwell, windfarm (presented to the second public inquiry) -- 18/11/09 (.DOC)
- Response to Rivenhall waste proposal (submission to the Planning Inspectorate against the proposed Waste Management Facility at Rivenhall Airfield) -- 18/10/09 (.DOC)
- Objection to 1st proposal for new access road to Philip Morant School (.DOC)
- Objection to 2nd proposal for new access road to Philip Morant School (.DOC)
- Rivenhall incinerator demo -- 20/04/09 (.DOC)
- War on Waste Option 7 -- 27/06/07 (.DOC)
- 'Crymlyn Burrows' - Essay from Teresa Brzoza, PAIN (Parents Against Incinerator) -- 27/06/07 (.DOC)
- Real Recycling Briefing -- 27/06/07 (.DOC)
- Objections to the Stanway MBT/AD waste disposal plants -- 02/02/07 (.PDF)
- Deeping St. Nicholas Wind Farm Visit -- 06/01/07 (.PDF)
- Zero Waste Charter -- 15/11/06 (.PDF)
Flyers
- Green Cllr James Abbott's announcement of meetings about Rivenhall incinerator campaign
- Zero Waste Charter Solutions Conference -- 25/11/06 (.PDF)
Forms
- Colchester FoE Membership Form -- 09/04/07 (.PDF)
- Zero Waste Chartists Membership Form (.DOC)
Letters
- Renewable energy is the answer, not nuclear power!, sent to Gazette, 6th July 2011 (similar letters to other papers)
- Last chance for Essex County Council to drop the costly waste disposal contracts, to Colchester Daily Gazette, 2nd May 2011
- Three local windfarms ARE supported by environmentalists and the public, Essex County Standard 29 April 2011
- Middlewick windfarm has a lot of local support, to the Maldon & Burnham Standard 4 April 2011
- Last chance for Essex County Council to drop the costly waste disposal contracts, to Essex Chronicle 3 April 2011
- CBC survey on wheelie bins a year ago actually showed only 29 people preferred them, Gazette letters page, published 28th March 2011
- Let's sort ourselves out at the kerbside!, to Essex County Standard 23 March 2011
- Tendring kerbside recycling not so dreadful, to EADT 21 March 2011
- Benign and powerful wind energy, Gazette 19 Aug. 2010
- Maldon councillors opposed the Middlewick windfarm (to the Standard, 10/08/10)
- The bus users are owed an apology -- 2/7/10, Essex County Standard (large .JPG image)
- Improve bus station to give Vaf a boost, Gazette 13 May 2010
- Don't accept waste bribe, letter to the papers, printed 30/4/10 in the Gazette
- Park and ride will not reduce pollution, Gazette 1 Apr. 2010 (also in Standard and EADT)
- No need for nuclear power, 16/2/10, printed in East Anglian Daily Times under the headline "Have your say on future of nuclear power station"
- Waste Options consultation, sent to Standard 5 Jan. 2010
- Four Rubbish Options, sent to Gazette 8 Dec. 2009 - printed on 10th under headline 'Vote for our alternative option on rubbish issue'.
- Exciting news of first Essex windfarm approved at Earls Hall farm, 30 Nov. 2009, printed in the Gazette and the Standard
- Vital to support bus use, Standard 9 Oct. 2009
- Let's get the terminology right as well as the right solution to the High Street, sent to the Standard 30 June 2009
- Buses as important as bikes?, Gazette 15 June 2009
- A nuclear powered vacuum cleaner?, from Ian Clarke 5 June 2009
- Opposition groups are against incineration, sent to Gazette 1 June 2009
- Will the ECC opposition groups pledge to pull out of the PFI bid?, Gazette 28 May 2009
- To the Planning Inspectorate, in support of proposal for windfarm at Bradwell (.DOC)
- Letter to Essex County Standard on separated kerbside collections, sent on 7/4/09
- Get real over carbon footprint, Gazette 12 Dec. 2008
- Lots of wind power, Clacton Gazette 2 Dec. 2008
- Costly waste plans, Essex County Standard 28 Nov. 2008
- We can reject nuclear, Gazette 13 Nov. 2008
- To EADT on CBC rescinding MoU, Oct. 2008
- Letter to the press on waste collections 4/9/08
- To:- Gazette urging CBC to pull out of PFI bid -- 1/8/08 (.DOC)
- To:- Essex County Standard regarding waste -- 11/12/07 (.DOC)
- To:- Clacton Gazette regarding Earls Hall Windfarm, 'Eco-warrior bites back' -- 12/11/07 (.DOC)
- To:- Essex County Standard regarding plastic recycling -- 28/09/07 (.DOC)
- To:- Gazette urging Borough to quit PFI bid -- 29/06/07 (.DOC)
- To:- Braintree & Witham Times re Dirty energy from burning waste -- 27/06/07 (.DOC)
- Important information on LATS -- 27/06/07 (.PDF -- .DOC)
- Template letter to support the Earls Hall Farm Wind Farm Proposal -- 20/06/07 (.DOC)
Press releases
- Eleventh hour call to ECC to dump PFI waste contracts -- 11/10/11
- Drop the costly waste disposal contracts now before it is too late -- 13/07/11
- Inspector approves Middlewick Windfarm on the Dengie Peninsula -- 23/05/11
- Dump dirty waste plant contracts -- 12/10/10
- Organic farming for a healthy planet -- 30/9/10
- Our press release from before the second Middlewick planning meeting: Time to halt climate change with local renewable energy -- 29/7/10
- We must dump the County's waste plans -- 23/11/09
- Exciting news of first Essex windfarm -- 22/11/09
- ECC springs new PFI bid on Councillors and Essex people -- 27/7/09
- Districts sign legally-binding 'Inter Authority Agreements' -- 24/5/09
- Colchester's new Cabinet withdraws support from PFI bid -- 6/10/08
- PFI bid to be agreed for two massive MBT plants at Basildon and Rivenhall -- 13/07/08 (.DOC)
- 'Government's go-ahead ... is economic and environmental madness' -- 10/01/08 (.DOC)
- 'Government to give nuclear decision' (National FoE) -- 07/01/08 (.DOC)
- 'Stanway Cory application' -- 27/09/07 (.DOC)
- 'Lord Hanningfield has broken his 'No Incineration' pledge to Essex people' -- 05/06/07 (.DOC)
- 'National FoE counters waste misinformation in Essex' -- 01/05/07 (.PDF)
- 'Stanway Tollgate Hall Meeting' Press Release' -- 23/04/07 (.PDF -- .DOC)
- 'FoE calls on south area district councils to pull out now' -- 06/03/07 (.PDF)
- 'St. George battles with the MBT dragon' -- 20/02/07 (.PDF)
Page updated 25/10/11
