Unthreaded
"In a scathing, 29-page ruling issued Feb. 12,
Judge Carlson denounced Ms. Lewis and her clients for an “unprecedented” failure to abide by court rules that require attorneys for both sides to reveal evidence they plan to present well in advance of trial."
preventing “ambushed with a trial-by-surprise.”
stewgreen
@Tomo - I note a commenter SylviaDodge says Phelim is misrepesenting cos the family never said that their water had been contaminated by "actual fracking fluid", but rather their water had been contaminated by methane somehow being driven up from the fracking bed ...whereas most of us would say that is just a coincidence or that the family are liars
stewgreen
Declaring an interest - I was one of the crowdfunders of Frack Nation.
Dimock has been characterized as “Ground Zero” for fracking contamination of water. It has featured in the documentaries Gasland 1 & 2 and has been the subject of national and international news reports.
Some of the folk featured in that movie - The Sautners are in court. Their dy-plee-tud-youray-ny-yum in fracking fluid contaminating their well claim being a minor classic.
It looks like they are coming unstuck on the lie that's circled the world for several years assisted by Yoko Ono and assorted witless 'slebs and lazy / lame / activist journalists.
Phelim is providing some blow by blow stuff from the court on Facebook
tomo
I don't think saving money or sanity comes into the local rules for collecting rubbish. The objective is to be wasteful and confusing, to make us more malleable. Read Animal Farm or 1984 for the inspiration behind the agenda! There is at least one council that has said the sky will fall in if kitchen waste goes in the Green Bin then, later, when kitchen waste had to recycled, it had to go in flimsy biodegradable bags, preferably placed in the Green Bin, and it wasn't a problem if the bag split! Another has two bin types, but the 'non Green Bin' is for the Green recyclables.
'Absurd' that UK has hundreds of different recycling systems, says minister
Rory Stewart, the environment minister, attacks myriad of local recycling systems, saying a single national model would save money and boost recycling
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Rory Stewart MP, who is responsible for resource management in England, said there were more than 300 different collection arrangements around the country and that "a single, harmonised system” could bring huge savings and boost recycling rates.
"This country has more than 300 recycling systems. It is a little bit absurd," he told MPs. "As we go from council to council, we see that some collect waste co-mingled, some - about 40 - separate food waste, and about another 260 do not.
"There are different sizes and colours of bin, different types of truck, different types of recycling system and different types of anaerobic digester consuming waste. That all adds cost.
"In London alone, we could probably save £19 million a year if we had a single standard recycling system. Across the country as a whole, the savings would be extraordinary."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/businessandecology/recycling/12172341/Myriad-of-UK-recycling-systems-is-absurd-says-minister.html
The conclusion is that Councils saw this as a not-invented-here empire building extravaganza, funded by the taxpayer!
Robert Christopher
Investors in wind energy bond can't have their money back for 3 years (and then?)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/bonds/mini-bond-investors-face-three-year-wait-to-get-their-money-back/
Ha, ha, ha I bet Madoff would have liked to do this.
TinyCO2
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/scrapped-the-controversial-2bn-recycling-scheme-1-7741123
two big recycling centres built for £250 million and costing £2bn over 20 years in Lancashire are to be mothballed because a) they didn't work properly, b) the market for recycling has died and c) landfill charges have dropped. The Green Blob wasting money at it's best. They've mothballed them in case everything changes again and they need them.
TinyCO2
Get ready for the doomsayers, El Nino is having its effect, February is shaping up to be a warm un!
NCEP month to date is at +0.66C (Jan was +0.51}
and showing up here:-
Daily global average temperature at: 25,000 ft / 7.5 km / 400 mb (AQUA ch06)
The sky is going to fall!
Green Sand
The Royal Society is having a panel discussion on 24 March: "Clearing the Air: how to tackle air quality and climate change". The blurb suggests that there may be a trade-off between measures to improve air quality and those that combat climate change. (Who knew? Could there even be trade-offs between combatting climate change and other vital goals?).
I have better things to do on the evening of Maundy Thursday, but if you're interested (or want to go), more details at https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/03/clearing-the-air/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4369
osseo
Robert Christopher
Not invented here! Haven't heard that since I retired. The curse of amalgamated businesses and why economies of scale take an aeon to realise.
A myriad schemes for recycling/waste disposal doesn't seem to be unique to the UK. In this corner of Europe the collection methods vary region to region, we have a weekly bin collection for general rubbish and recycling points for glass, tins, plastic etc. The bin contents aren't checked so if you can't be bothered to recycle it goes in general waste. We have a déchèterie for major recycling including garden waste and electrical goods, we have what my wife calls a loyalty card for the déchèterie, which is used to monitor what you take and how often. As far as I can tell all the bordering regions have centralised points for all waste and no household collections.
What will happen after the departmental reorganisation remains to be seen, but NIH will reign for a while I suspect despite guidelines from Paris and Brussels!