Amos slams Tories over water vote
Taunton Deane's Rebecca Pow has come under fire for being among Conservative MPs who voted in favour of weakening the water regulator’s ability to take enforcement action on water companies.
We need to work on a greener future for our planet
Taunton Deane's Rebecca Pow has come under fire for being among Conservative MPs who voted in favour of weakening the water regulator’s ability to take enforcement action on water companies.
This afternoon, Conservative MPs, including John Redwood, have voted in favour of weakening the water regulator’s ability to take enforcement action on water companies.
Sewage was dumped into rivers in Taunton Deane for 15,720 hours in 2023, new figures have revealed.
The need to protect our environment has been a Liberal Democrat priority for decades. With the impact of climate change becoming clearer every year, it has never been more important to focus our attention on what we can do to help the planet.
It's not enough to set targets and hope society will shift to meet them. There needs to be a determined focus and active leadership when it comes to meeting - and preferably surpassing - our environmental goals.
There is a strong case to be made that pushing a greener economy and striving harder to reach net zero emissions earlier will mean a boost not just to our environment but also to the economy.
Wind Power is now something all the political parties say they want but it was the Liberal Democrats that made it a reality by pushing hard while in power during the 2010-2015 Coalition with the Conservative Party.
LibDem leader Ed Davey was the prime driver behind the roll-out and because of his efforts, Britain is now seen as leading the world when it comes to offshore wind. That vision and focus proved its worth a hundred times over when gas prices rocketed following Russia's invastion of Ukraine in 2022. The UK was able to generate a significant proportion of its energy from existing, sustainable and green windfarms.
Our plans are much bigger than current installations but the rollout of offshore wind was cut short by the Conservative government and then further limited through a ban on onshore wind; something the government maintains despite the fact than over two-thirds of the population are in favour of more wind farms.
Had the Liberal Democrats remained in power, a majority of our power needs would now be supplied by wind power. |