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York households will pay price for Labour’s controversial gas drilling decision
The Labour government go ahead for Jackdaw gas drilling flies in the face of any serious commitments to tackle climate change.
But it also fails to address the cost of living.
With energy bills soaring by up to 25 per cent again in January (while oil and gas companies continue to make record profits), it is deeply troubling that Andy Burnham has announced the green light for this controversial project.
Our dependence on burning fossil fuels is leaving York households exposed to volatile prices while further driving the climate crisis of floods, wildfires and soaring summer heat.
We need a decisive shift towards better insulating our homes and home-grown renewable energy to bring bills down and tackle climate change.
Michael Kearney Willis St York Green Party__
Oil claims won’t make a jot of difference
Baldrick Burnham was crowing in PMQs about the reopening of the Jackdaw oil field in the North Sea and how it would boost our economy.
According to the financial experts your bills will not be reduced and the revenue from the oil reserves will not make a jot of difference to the British economy.
Nice try Baldrick but back to the drawing board.
T J Ryder Acomb York___
It's like turkeys voting for Christmas
Whenever a local authority commits to either borrowing or spending tens of millions of ratepayers' money without disclosing the sum or terms involved suspicion begins to develop, even more so when they say "it is a good deal".
Such is the case with the proposed purchase of Doncaster/Sheffield Airport by South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard.
Expecting councillors at North Yorkshire Council to vote against a 10 per cent increase in their personal allowance is akin to turkeys being asked to support Christmas.
Peter Rickaby Moat Way Brayton North Yorkshire___
It will live in my memory for the rest of my life
Over my 76 years on planet Earth I have read, heard, or seen on television hundreds and hundreds of natural disasters, ranging from floods, earthquakes, fires and storms and everything else nature can throw at us.
Likewise, the many man-made disasters, the Twin Towers, Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the Locerbie aircraft bombing and the many wars and conflicts over the last 76 years.
The tragedy at Aberfan, when on October 21, 1966, 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives in and around the Pantglas Junior School when an estimated 110,000 cubic metres of spoil from a nearby slag heap slid onto the school, still moves me, even now 60 years on. I personally can't read or view any of the events commemorating this tragic event.
The terrible events at Aberfan will live in my memory for the rest of my life.
D M Deamer Penleys Grove Street Monkgate YorkWhat do you think?
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