2015-08-05 11:42:41 +0100
To: Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey.
No Legal Duty to Pollute.
Dear Mr Davey,
I'm very alarmed to hear that Baroness Kramer intends " to introduce measures ...to put the principle of maximising economic recovery of petroleum in the UK into statute", in a new government bill - The Infrastructure Bill - currently before the House of Lords
You can read more here: http://www.monbiot.com/2014/06/26/a-legal-duty-to-maximise-greenhouse-gases/
This appears to be a cynical attempt to undermine attempts to limit the damage of carbon dioxide emissions to our planet's biosphere, and I urge you to join us in strongly opposing this retrograde step.
I'm very alarmed to hear that Baroness Kramer intends " to introduce measures ...to put the principle of maximising economic recovery of petroleum in the UK into statute", in a new government bill - The Infrastructure Bill - currently before the House of Lords
You can read more here: http://www.monbiot.com/2014/06/26/a-legal-duty-to-maximise-greenhouse-gases/
This appears to be a cynical attempt to undermine attempts to limit the damage of carbon dioxide emissions to our planet's biosphere, and I urge you to join us in strongly opposing this retrograde step.
Why is this important?
The government appears to be attempting not only to undermine existing environmental legislation in general ,but now want to make it law that UK oil reserves MUST be exploited to their full. This ,at a time when known oil reserves are many times more than the biosphere can absorb before dire consequences follow.
This looks like an attempt to force a narrow and divisive policy on the British people whether they want it or not.
Such a move is lunacy with what we all now know, and a direct attack on the healthy future of ourselves and many of Earth's lifeforms.
For more information : http://www.monbiot.com/2014/06/26/a-legal-duty-to-maximise-greenhouse-gases/
Please consider e-mailing your local MP on this issue as well, if you live in the UK
This looks like an attempt to force a narrow and divisive policy on the British people whether they want it or not.
Such a move is lunacy with what we all now know, and a direct attack on the healthy future of ourselves and many of Earth's lifeforms.
For more information : http://www.monbiot.com/2014/06/26/a-legal-duty-to-maximise-greenhouse-gases/
Please consider e-mailing your local MP on this issue as well, if you live in the UK
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