Category Archives: Environment

In praise of Mr Splashy Pants

Posted on January 16, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s Splashy Pants We learn all is not well in ‘Save the Whale’ circles. A Greenpeace poll to name one of the humpbacks they tagged and tracked to the Southern ocean where hunting for Minke and Humpback is currently taking … Continue reading →

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Fw: Council to flog off £200m of our park land

Posted on January 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol Parks Forum, Release Date: 14th January 2008 Author: Fraser Bridgeford, Chairman, Bristol Parks Forum. Bristol Parks Forum (BPF) today urged councillors to show their support for the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy as originally consulted. They called for Tuesday’s … Continue reading →

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In praise of Peter Goodwin

Posted on January 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Well done to the Green Party’s Peter Goodwin who’s proving himself to be a fully paid up member of Bristol’s depressingly small political awkward squad. Goodwin made good use of Freedom of Information legislation last autumn to obtain information from … Continue reading →

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Cancer on the case (again)

Posted on December 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Another big shout out to Evening Cancer editor Mike Norton and his super smart newsroom boys. “PAY AS YOU THROW” thundered the front page of our ever so good local newspaper yesterday. “ A “pay-as-you-throw” scheme charging householders £2 per … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Green councillor shoots himself in foot!

Posted on November 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Photos by _saturnine It’s more bad news for Bristol’s backfiring green machine . . . Ho, ho, ho . . . Looks like Bristol Green Party’s uncanny knack to tune right in there on public opinion strikes again. Ha, ha, … Continue reading →

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The dangers of gentrification

Posted on November 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

#1 Monbiats moving in next door . . .

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Hyocrite watch meets eco balls

Posted on November 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not ones to pass up the opportunity to put a semi-naked teenager on their pages, today’s papers are full of stories about teenage supermodel sensation Lily Cole becoming the new face of Marks & Spencer. Cole is currently the posh … Continue reading →

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The Big Arse: greenwash photo-op watch

Posted on November 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Pictured is an embarrassing clown alongside someone dressed up as Robin Hood. The question that needs to printed on that bit of paper is ‘can Bristol bear this idiot in charge any longer?’ What passes for a leader in this … Continue reading →

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Transport round-up

Posted on November 9, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Minister of State for being an unpalatable shade of orange, Peter Vain, was in town yesterday making one of his stupid, posh foghorn-voiced announcements. And what tremendous news he brings! Yet another Labour government subsidy, no less, for Bristol’s most … Continue reading →

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Choose the ineffective, low-cost PR option day

Posted on October 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Fancy that! The latest supporter of the mindless and ineffective ‘Choose Day’ Christian eco-scam is none other than Mark Bradshaw, Labour’s Transport exec. He tells The Cancer: “Choose Day will help to make Bristol a leading city in addressing th[e] … Continue reading →

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