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Welcome to Colchester and North East Essex Friends of the Earth

Welcome to the web site of Colchester and North East Essex Friends of the Earth.

Our current campaigns (local and national) are shown in the navigation bar to the left. The latest developments appear on the News page.

You can read about the group's history on the About Us and Past Events pages.

Addresses for any questions can be found on the Contact Us page. We hope you find this site useful.

Announcements

Job opportunity for Home Energy Auditors

Sustrans are recruiting; more details on our news page.

Urgent responses needed to the nuclear consultations before 22nd February

Please see the newsletter from BANNG (.doc) which was sent out a couple of weeks ago. It includes a lot of information, but particularly Andy Blowers' highly critical response from BANNG to the House of Commons Inquiry into Energy National Policy Statements. Please try to read it if you can.

There is a lot to read but see also a short message from BANNG (.doc) to encourage everyone to make their own personal response to the nuclear consultation which ends in two weeks' time on 22nd February. Please do make your own reponse using any of the points you wish in as long or short a version as you can manage. Every personal response is very important to build up the numbers of individual objectors.

This message from Jim Duffy of Stop Hinkley might give you some simpler ideas for responding to the nuclear consultations. It is good to hear that FoE is considering challenging the nps. According to BANNG's Andy and Varrie Blowers FoE spoke very well at the recent parliamentary sessions.

Waste Options consultation - REVISED DEADLINE 29 Jan. 2010

The latest 'consultation', in which we risk having wheelie bins imposed, has been extended. The official deadline for responses is now 29th January. Apparently the decision won't be taken until after the local elections. Our letter to the press includes how you can have your say. Here is our group's response in a Word document: We need a fifth Recycling Option - Option E

Waste demo, 26th November

Last Thursday the county put out tenders for the massive long-term contracts in their waste strategy. We will be demonstrating at County Hall steps on Thursday 26th November, 1pm to 1.30pm. More details on the news page

Earls Hall Windfarm approved

The windfarm of five turbines at Earls Hall Farm, Clacton, has been approved. It is the first windfarm to be approved in Essex. Press release: Exciting news of first Essex windfarm.

Rivenhall inquiry

The public inquiry into the proposed Waste Management Facility at Rivenhall Airfield took place from 29th September to 14th October. More details on the news page

Summer vigil

BANNG have organised a peaceful protest on Sunday 9th August. More details on the news page

Public inquiry

The public inquiry into the Earls Hall windfarm application has opened. More details on the news page

Site redesigned to improve accessibility

We have a new, more fluid page layout, which should fit a wider variety of browsers and screen sizes. Various accessibility features have been introduced. More details on the news page

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