Support the ‘Age of Stupid’ wind farm

UPDATE:  The easiest way to write to the planning officer is here.
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For those of you who have seen the Age of Stupid (here’s a trailer for those who haven’t), Piers has resubmitted his proposal for Airfield Windfarm in a much scaled-down format (only three wind-turbines now) and could use some letter-writing support.

At this stage, the most positive thing that you could do would be to write a letter of support to the planning officer;

Peter Bull
Planning and Housing Services
Bedford Borough Council
Town Hall
St. Paul’s Square
Bedford
MK40 1SJ

RE: Application No. 08/02692/MAF

If you want to invite as many of your friends/family to do the same this all helps.

Let’s see if we can get this proposal approved at last!

London Climate March: Non-violent Direct Action

While there are many stories that could be told about the Global Day
of Climate Action, I would like to talk about the rising star of
climate campaigning: non-violent direct action, or NVDA.

Today campaigners in over 40 countries marched in a global effort to
increase government action on climate change. Climatico had
half-a-dozen analysts on the ground to report on the action.

After much walking, chanting, drumming, and shivering, our estimated
10,000-strong battalion of climate marchers rounded the corner into
Parliament Square. After a few speeches and some music, we were greeted
with two quotes:

“Direct action is the last resort of democracy”

“If you’re a young person looking at the future of this
planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I
believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil
disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not
have carbon capture and sequestration.”

Any guesses as to who these were credited to?

Parliament Square by Dominic Rowland

Nope, not a bunch of eco-hippies, but Oscar Wilde and Al Gore (though I can’t find a source for the first).

Later, we heard from John McDonnell, the MP whose constituency
includes Heathrow Airport, who gave a rousing speech in which he
pledged to participate in NVDA if the government approved the plans to
build a third runway at Heathrow.

Finally, Caroline Lucas MEP, came up on stage, inviting us all to a “tea party” (read sit-in) at Heathrow Terminal One.

So we have high-profile politicians calling for NVDA, a situation which is unlkely to have happened without the game-changing court verdict
regarding the Greenpeace protesters at Kingsnorth. But will it work?
Well there certainly seem to be a lot of people that hope so!