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We are failures on green issues
• As a resident on the Regent’s Park estate, I
look out each morning to all of those flat-roofed low-rise blocks
and imagine them covered with solar panels.
I walk into the teeth of the regular gale on my balcony and
imagine the roof of this and the other 17-storey tower blocks
dotted with small wind turbines.
Then I look at the service charge for this year and see the
bill of £624 for heating and hot water for a one-bedroom
flat occupied by one person.
I see a connection between this high figure and all of those
currently bare surfaces. When I inquired of the council whether
it had considered small-scale renewable generating schemes,
the answer that I got back was that general green electricity
tariffs were considered, but were not the cheapest – not
the question that I asked at all.
I was told that there was a pilot scheme to put five wind turbines
on the Town Hall extension. But wind power is a proven technology,
the threat of global warming is, as the latest Defra science
report has again said this week, extremely pressing, and I know
that some councils, notably Kirklees in Yorkshire (which has
three very active Green councillors), are already using renewable
energy sources on a wide scale.
Natalie Bennett
Green Party candidate
Stanhope St, NW1
• At the weekend I took a car-load of items from my
flat to the Regis Road recycling centre. Camden Council regularly
tells residents how wonderful it is at offering us recycling
facilities.
‘Top marks for recycling’, its leaflets proclaim.
I was therefore surprised and annoyed that about half the items
I took along, mainly electrical items, were refused on the ground
Camden is unable to recycle them.
Happily, the chap at the Regis Road centre advised me to take
my waste to Islington’s recycling centre assuring me that
they had the facilities to recycle my waste. If Islington Council
has comprehensive recycling facilities, why doesn't Camden?
Matt Evans
West End Lane, NW6 |
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