27 March 2024
We are busy campaigning to get Kevin Foster, our Green candidate elected as Mayor of York and North Yorkshire. We have an update on the campaign, feedback from this month's Branch meeting and news on two different approaches to alternative energy in the North, plus local news.
However, before we get to that the opportunity to vote Green in the Mayoral election requires a deposit of £5000
PLEASE WILL YOU CONSIDER DONATING TO THE CROWDFUNDING APPEAL TO HELP FUND THE GREEN PARTY MAYORAL CAMPAIGN FOR YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE?
The appeal has raised just over £1400 so far which is nearly a third of the way to the £5,000 target.
If you have any questions regarding this please contact our membership engagement officer Jenny Boulds via email
membership@richmondnyorks.greenparty.org.uk
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It was a cold, wet day but we enjoyed delivering leaflets, knocking on doors and meeting fellow Greens. Many thanks to branch members, Alison, Linda, Rupert, Suzzanne and Zanne who came along and made it a success.
"The chance to meet face to face and network was, for me, the best aspect of the event." (Anna, Coordinator)
It was also a good start in our campaign to get Kevin elected as Mayor. He got off to a flying start with 46 people signing his nomination form for the mayoral election!
There is a lot more to do. Please come and join us:
Kevin has hit the ground running, travelling around North Yorkshire and York to listen to residents and tell them what his priorities will be as Mayor. If you follow our Facebook page you will have seen him out campaigning: York, where the local Green Party branch committed to funding and delivering 20,000 leaflets; up in the Dales; at the coast in Scarborough; and at the Action Day in Colburn where 46 people signed nominations for him.
In the next few weeks Kevin's campaign diary includes events in Harrogate, Skipton, Aiskew near Bedale, Whitby and York.
The Harrogate Informer is interviewing all the candidates. Watch Kevin's interview.
Flooding Risk at Morton on Swale Bridge Michael Chaloner reports: North Yorkshire Council Highways agree that the use of light signs activated by automatic water level gauges in the Swale and raising the level of the Northallerton Road would be valuable. As yet, they have not found a source of funding.
Aiskew and Leeming Bar Parish Council has asked what the Environment Agency plan to do about the situation.
Drive-thru cafe at Aiskew Michael Chaloner is working this week to try to stop planning permission being granted for a drive-thru cafe.
Holding North Yorkshire to Account on Biodiversity. Rudby Parish Council has successfully used its biodiversity plan to get an amendment made which improves a planning application in its area. To read more click here.
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Are we sure that all alternative energy projects are improving the earth's atmosphere? Or, are we continuing to pollute and deplete the earth's resources? Here are two articles that show very different approaches
DRAX POWER STATION IMPORTING AND BURNING RARE FOREST The BBC claims Drax is importing wood from rare trees to burn. Read more here Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood - BBC News Michael Chaloner of RCGP has followed the issue of Drax power station by Selby for some years. Both Michael and Kevin Foster have written to Rishi Sunak opposing further grants to Drax. Read more from Michael about Drax WIND ENERGY IN THE NORTH EAST An article celebrates the growth of the alternative energy industry, particularly wind farms, in the north-east. Read more in Winds of change - The QT This article is courtesy of The QT and the Northern Echo.
Promoted by Allan Mortimer of The Old Vicarage Belbrough Lane, Hutton Rudby, TS15 0HY on behalf of Kevin Foster |
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