Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Fracking right or wrong?

by Mark Willis on 13 January, 2013

So the Tories are allowing Gas/Oil Fracking to resume, the brilliant new idea from the Cons is to allow a debatable way of extracting gas and oil to power our homes for the next 30 years. This decision is at best questionable, Fracking has brought headlines of doom and disaster, or as a saint and […]

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Arla Concerns

by Mark Willis on 31 January, 2011

Many people in the town are concerned about the proposed Arla Dairy plant on the A41 at Aston Clinton. Some are worried about the plant itself but most are worried about the traffic. However, I suspect everyone welcomes the much needed jobs that this plant could bring if it is built. So, the Town Council […]

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A bad day for the vulnerable in Bucks

by Mark Willis on 5 August, 2010

Today’s decision to slash £9.2 million pounds from the Buckinghamshire County Councils budget is a hammer blow for many of our poorest and most vulnerable citizens,the Tories have had the grant from central government reduced by £3 million, but have been running an organisation that has wasted so much of our valuable council tax money […]

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Sainsbury’s At Adams Garage

by Mark Willis on 5 January, 2010

So another week, another Supermarket planning application, this time a Sainsbury’s Local at Adams Garage, next to Broughton Ave on the Oakfield Road, just a few meters from the Tring Road Air Quality Management Area, an area of already poor air quality caused by traffic congestion.   There is the issue of the new Sainsbury’s […]

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