Posted on 03/21/2023 6:16:28 PM PDT by dennisw
Coton Orchard, near Cambridge, is a designated habitat of principal importance The decision was voted in despite 2,300 opponents signing a petition
Plans to chop down 500 mature trees in an orchard to make way for a guided busway have been approved by councillors on the grounds it will help reduce climate change.
Coton Orchard, near Cambridge, has around 1,000 trees producing 26 varieties of apples, as well as plums and pears, and is a designated habitat of principal importance.
But county councillors voted 33 to 26 in favour of the new bus-only route which will link the university city with Cambourne, a growing new town eight miles away.
The decision came despite 2,300 opponents signing a petition and impassioned pleas during the full council meeting to reconsider the ‘utterly destructive’ proposal.
Anna Gazeley, whose family own the orchard which was planted in 1922 to produce apples for wholesale trade in Covent Garden, told councillors: ‘Traditional orchards are hotspots of biodiversity in the countryside, supporting a wide range of wildlife as well as an array of nationally rare and nationally scarce species.
Steve Oram, orchard biodiversity manager at the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, said the £160 million bus route was an ‘utterly destructive proposal’, adding the environmental loss ‘cannot be compensated for’.
Coton Parish Council has previously warned the guided busway would save just 1.5 to 3.5 minutes on a typical journey compared to using an on-road bus lane.
But Lib Dem council leader Lucy Nethsingha referred to a UN report this week which highlighted the need to decarbonise economies.
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More evil from the climate change cult. How dumb can they be? I hope this gets nullified.
It WILL ruin the orchard.
It WON’T do diddly squat for climate change. (If the UK ceased to emit ANY CO2, that also wouldn’t do diddly squad for climate change.) They only contribute 1% of the total CO2 emitted. (And don’t get me started on the whole CO2 debacle.)
Eliminate China and that’ll fix the whole d*mned problem, given that they’re building one coal plant per week - if I read correctly.
Not even close to kidding.
Make the council eat the bugs, or nothing at all.
That makes sense in our bizarro world.
Climate Change is not about Climate Change.
Climate Change is an excuse for Big Banks, Big Business and Big Government to do whatever they want to benefit their interests.
“Lib Dem council leader Lucy Nethsingha referred to a UN report this week which highlighted the need to decarbonise economies.”
Cutting down a vast orchard of perfectly good CO2 absorbers and food producers is a great way to “decarbonize.”
Who needs apples? Eat your bugs and shut up.
The environmental entrepreneurs couldn’t care less about the environment, it’s always about the m o n e y.
That’s not green.
Yeah, because there are just not enough buses driving around town.
So the local progs are going to destroy half of a one hundred year old orchard because for decades they were all for getting rid of the horrid vehicles and everyone can ride bikes or walk?
Sniff around a bit, it will not take long to find the money trail.
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How did India become such a horror show? By doing things like this to the land
Good enough for G. Washington.
Good enough for me.
Don’t it always seem to go....
These British clowns are making the French seem like environmental geniuses.
I was waiting for that…
“Climate change” is the mass delusion of our times.
___“Climate change” is the mass delusion of our times.”
Same as the Egyptians squandered a third of their resources (my guess) building pyramids for their inbred Kings. Who married their sisters. How sick and delusional is that! For your so-called divine rulers and their subjects, who went along with this scam.
No wonder the ancient Jews loathed these tossers.
And don’t get me started on the Aztecs with their mass human sacrifice
Evil world government power seeking.
Johnny Appleseed digs self out of grave.
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