Norfolk has just committed £384,000 of developer mitigation money to protect beach-nesting birds on its coast. Suffolk is sitting on £1.74 million collected for exactly the same purpose. On 2 Octob…

National Nurses United president discusses nurses’ fight against Palantir in healthcare, universal healthcare, and keeping ICE out of medical facilities.

Several town and parish councils in Upper Calder Valley, Worth Valley and Pendle are statutory consultees for the proposed Calderdale Energy Project. It is useful to try and keep track of their act…

Community action stopped the climate-wrecking Whitehaven coal mine. Now, its backers are suing the government in a secret corporate court – and UK taxpayers could pay millions. Polluters should never ...

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The statutory nature consultation body Natural England has made several red-coded comments in its response to Calderdale Energy Park’s recent statutory consultation. The comments indicate &#8…

If I asked you to share your experience of peatlands, how would you choose to do it? Would it be through words, recounting untold stories from bogs-past, or elevating the voices of bogs-present? Would...

We are asking Calderdale Energy Park what the longstop date is for the land option agreement between Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd and Al Gihaz Holding (Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd’s ultimate parent c…

The Flood Risk Assessment will be one of the most important documents in Calderdale Energy Park’s Development Consent Order application – if/when it submits it to the Planning Inspector…

MCS tracker reveals number of small-scale solar installations completed this year has already surpassed long-standing 2011 record

Striking new drone images captured after this summer's wildfires at RSPB Dove Stone are offering hope for the future.

14 September 2026

The Peatland Alliance recently emailed the new Secretaries of State for DEFRA (Angela Eagle MP) and the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (Maitta Fahnbulleh MP). Our ask – as ever &#…

HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act.

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent

The Peatland Alliance strongly disagrees with Calderdale Council Climate and Environment Team’s endorsement of Calderdale Energy Park’s misleading carbon and climate change claims. As w…

The pre-application planning process for Calderdale Energy Park that we have been operating within has just been overturned. We have heard from the Planning Inspectorate that the statutory pre-appl…

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On 7th June we completed our response to the Calderdale Energy Park Statutory Consultation, on behalf of Wadsworth Parish Council. The response is here. It includes the statement that: “We re…

Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue