The website has been set up, domain registered and will be up and running this coming week.
http://www.bakewellgreen.co.uk/
Stand by please...
Saturday 22 October 2011
Minister of State for climate change
That 'other mans' man Greg Baker confirms the agenda for micro-hydro on rivers.
'The coalition has announced new plans to make these sorts of micro-hydro projects the norm rather than the exception'.
Friday 21 October 2011
To get enough water...
...for the Victoria Mill turbine, this little stream will need to be dredged. That's a small grayling in front and a male brown trout behind. Under their fins, within the silt are brook lamprey and mayfly larval nymphs. On the weed are thousands of insects and in holes in the banks are water voles, often seen sitting out on shallow riffles in the late afternoon sun.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Bakewell Green is born today
Bakewell Green is a free service, launched today, for residents, visitors and anyone with even just the most remote connection with the town of Bakewell, which nestles in the valley of Derbyshire's river Wye in the heart of the Peak District.
Use Bakewell Green to make your views known by simply clicking on "comments" and making your own comments in the window. You can comment anonymously if you wish but your comments will have more impact if you care to say who you are. It's entirely up to you.
A number of issues have come to light recently, that show the need for a more accountable environmental body based in Bakewell. The new group will not be acting as a Community Interest Company (CIC) with share capital, and will not be driven by the need for profit or paying its shareholders. In addition anyone who feels they have something to offer a truly equitable and green movement is free to join. The local environment will not be forced into compromise and the local wildlife and natural resources will be not be harmed.
There are few towns in England with residents so in touch with their environment as Bakewell. The river gives us safe, cool paddling on hot summer days, laughs with the raft and duck races and continual wonder at the size of trout. The countryside offers some fantastic walks, up Combs, up Intake, along the trail or up to Ashford. Curlew and Lapwing can be heard and seen on the tops while the sparrow hawk raids gardens back in town.
One should only take the workable and renewable resources from the treasury that is Nature and put back when we can. We are currently experiencing the policy of a previous Government, which rushed to avoid fines and set unreachable renewable energy targets. Everyone wants to do their bit but what seems to be a good idea on the face of it is putting Nature in danger for fifty years and so we are not going to allow the same BAD HYDRO decisions that have been made in New Mills and other places, to be made in Bakewell.
Use Bakewell Green to make your views known by simply clicking on "comments" and making your own comments in the window. You can comment anonymously if you wish but your comments will have more impact if you care to say who you are. It's entirely up to you.
A number of issues have come to light recently, that show the need for a more accountable environmental body based in Bakewell. The new group will not be acting as a Community Interest Company (CIC) with share capital, and will not be driven by the need for profit or paying its shareholders. In addition anyone who feels they have something to offer a truly equitable and green movement is free to join. The local environment will not be forced into compromise and the local wildlife and natural resources will be not be harmed.
There are few towns in England with residents so in touch with their environment as Bakewell. The river gives us safe, cool paddling on hot summer days, laughs with the raft and duck races and continual wonder at the size of trout. The countryside offers some fantastic walks, up Combs, up Intake, along the trail or up to Ashford. Curlew and Lapwing can be heard and seen on the tops while the sparrow hawk raids gardens back in town.
One should only take the workable and renewable resources from the treasury that is Nature and put back when we can. We are currently experiencing the policy of a previous Government, which rushed to avoid fines and set unreachable renewable energy targets. Everyone wants to do their bit but what seems to be a good idea on the face of it is putting Nature in danger for fifty years and so we are not going to allow the same BAD HYDRO decisions that have been made in New Mills and other places, to be made in Bakewell.
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