Porritt attacks recovery spending plan
Leading Green campaigner Jonathon Porritt attacked the way the credit crunch is being tackled in a speech in Bristol last night.
Mr Porritt, who chairs the Government's Sustainable Development Commission, said very little of the billions of pounds spent on recovery plans was on green or sustainable projects.
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"All the rest is just Earth-trashing economic management," he told Greens at a meeting on Narrow Quay, in the city centre.
The meeting was held to launch the Green Party's battle for South West of England seats on the European Parliament in elections on June 4.
Voters are invited to back a party, not an individual.
If there are enough Green votes for one candidate – but only one – to go through, Devon teacher Ricky Knight will become an MEP.
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by Richard Hugh Lawson, CHURCHILL, WINSCOMBE
Saturday, March 14 2009, 8:12AM
“The Government has poured billions into the banking industry to cover its errors and misjudgments. It is time now for it to help ordinary people. It should invest similar sums of monty into insulation of homes and businesses to stop the heat that is leaking out from poorly insulated properties. That measure will save money, end fuel poverty, counter global warming, blunt the threat of Peak Oil and Peak Gas, and increase our energ security. It is a no-brainer, and the poor response so far suggests that the Government has something wrong with its collective brain.”