The hearing for the Public Inquiry on the Coal Mine will open on the 7th September 2021 and will last for several weeks. SLACC intends to get involved in the Inquiry, and is currently considering what issues to pursue, and what evidence/ expert witnesses to involve. Some other organisations are likely to get involved too. […]
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The 2021 SLACC AGM will take place on April 13th via ZOOM. Register now by clicking below (After registering you will receive details of the link plus a reminder and the ability to add it to your diary) Join us and give us feedback on our plans for 2021 alongside some short presentations on composting
Burneside Community Energy have announced that the share offer for Phase 3 of Solar PV on the roof of the mill at James Cropper PLC is now open. Following the successful installation of PV systems in 2015 and 2019 we are looking to raise £186,500 to install 313.5kW of Solar PV on the new Technical
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Ambleside Action for a Future have been asked by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to participate in an on-line workshop in preparation for COP26, the Climate Change Summit taking place in Glasgow in November. In a nutshell, they are wanting to feature Community Climate action that is already taking place across
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Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State (SoS) for Housing Communities and Local Government, has at last taken the responsible decision and “called in” the Coal Mine to determine it himself. At 18.20 today (Thursday 11th March) SLACC’s lawyers, Richard Buxton Solicitors, were sent a copy of Jenrick’s letter to Cumbria County Council, and a reply to
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A paper arguing that “Cumbria is one place that could really benefit from a green recovery plan” has been published in “Inside Track”, the blog on environmental policy and politics hosted by the Green alliance. By Nick Robins, professor in practice for sustainable finance at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, and Ciara Shannon, director of EdenWorks
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