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Category Archives: Environment
Mike Supports Friends of Quantock Manifesto
This morning, in the driving rain, I met Chairman of Friends of Quantock, Alan Hughes, to back their ‘Quantock Manifesto.’ You can read it Quantocks Manifesto. I fully support the aims of the manifesto and will help FOQ achieve them … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Quantock Hills, Uncategorized
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Environment Agency Abandons Dredging Benefits Assessment
Since attending a councillors’ flood briefing in February, I have asked repeatedly that the Environment Agency supply an assessment of the benefits that the current programme of dredging would have had on the 2013/14 flood event. It has been delayed … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Flooding, Uncategorized, Water
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Cllr Hall ‘Responds’ to my Open Letter re AONB Funding.
You may recall that a few weeks ago I wrote to Deputy Leader of Somerset County Council, David Hall, asking him why he had deliberately antagonised many of the County Council’s AONB funding partners by withdrawing their invitations to a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Quantock Hills, Somerset County Council
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Latest Round of Somerset County Council Spending Cuts Begins
The annual ritual of SCC cuts has now begun, as readers of today’s Somerset County Gazette will have seen. Among the cuts are an 88% cut in Council funding to the teams that manage the county’s Areas of Outstanding Natural … Continue reading
The Environment Agency’s Position on Flood Prevention in Somerset
In the wake of the current, extensive flooding across large parts of Somerset, I thought it might be helpful to share the Environment Agency’s current position on flood risk management in the County. It contains some useful information with regard … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Flooding, Water
Tagged burrowbridge, currymoor, flooding, floods, muchelney, north curry, parrett, river, rivers, Somerset, somerset levels, tone
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Quantock Hills Orchard Maps & Quantock Apple Heritage Day
From Quantock Hills Joint Advisory Committee Somerset as a county has long been associated with orchards and it has a long heritage with horticulture of apples and cider-making. Documents referring to apples and cider production exist from Norman times, while … Continue reading
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Quantock Hills Orchard Maps & Quantock Apple Heritage Day
From Quantock Hills Joint Advisory Committee Somerset as a county has long been associated with orchards and it has a long heritage with horticulture of apples and cider-making. Documents referring to apples and cider production exist from Norman times, while … Continue reading
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The Badger Cull 2 – An update
Two weeks ago I wrote a blogpost setting out what I had learned about the pilot badger culls in the preceding few weeks. Previously I had not held a strong view on the subject and my interest had been piqued … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Welfare, Environment
Tagged badger, badger cull, badgers, bTB, cattle, cull, defra, farming, nfu, Somerset, TB, West Somerset
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Developers, Delays and Road Improvements
Since being elected I’ve spent a lot of time trying to speed up the provision of various delayed highway improvements and repairs, many of which are located in Norton Fitzwarren. It seems to me that there is a fundamental problem … Continue reading
What I have learned about the badger cull.
Representing a rural community, I have heard first-hand from farmers about the hardships associated with bovine TB outbreaks on their farms. Movement bans, below par compensation for slaughtered animals, even the loss of historic bloodlines all seriously impact on farmers’ … Continue reading
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