Archive for the ‘Environment’ category

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Tell the public the whole truth? You have to be joking

December 14, 2009

Do you ever feel you aren’t being told the whole truth by government and civil servants? That was the feeling of residents opposing a wind farm application in Devon. They had heard so many stories about the nightmares suffered by those living near wind farms that they found fishy the permitted noise levels set out [...]

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Massive carbon trading fraud centred on Denmark

December 6, 2009

One subject we did not cover in Complete and Utter Zebu was climate change. We aren’t scientists and, despite the enormity of what is at stake, much of what is written and spoken about the subject more resembles a bout of playground name-calling than serious intellectual debate. On the eve of the Copenhagen climate, there [...]

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Recycling is rubbish

October 9, 2009

“we urgently need residents to use the waste and recycling services correctly in order for them to be most effective” EVER WONDER what happens to your carefully-sorted recycling? A Margate resident filmed Thanet council bin men going about their job, cheerfully grabbing the bags he and his neighbours had organised… and throwing them all together [...]