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Sewage in our Rivers

The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.

14 Sep 2022
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Green Electricity

The Lib Dem led city council is saving money as well as saving the planet thanks to a deal it's made on buying 'green' electricity.

19 Mar 2007
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European Working Group

A new working group, which includes our chair Ed Featherstone, has been set up to produce a consultation paper for Autumn Federal Conference. (You will shortly have the opportunity to give your comments.) The remit says, "Much has happened in Europe since the party last reviewed policy in 'The Future of Europe' (policy paper 56) in 2003: there has been a substantial enlargement of the European Union, significant uncertainty about its institutional arrangements following signature of the constitutional treaty and growing challenges (such as climate change, globalisation, migration, criminality and human rights abuses) in many of the policy areas in which the EU operates.

18 Mar 2007
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British recycling should not end up in Chinese landfill sites - Huhne

Following reports that more homes could have their weekly bin collections scrapped to encourage recycling, new figures compiled by the Liberal Democrats show that there has been a massive growth in the amount of recycled material being sent to China from the UK since 1997. Over the last year alone, 1,900,000 tonnes of plastics, paper, card and metals were exported. Reports suggest that many of these materials are ending up in illegal waste dumps, despite the fact that many of them include lead, which can enter water supplies and the food chain, causing damage to animal and human health.

17 Mar 2007
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