Ancestors

Written by Juggling With Eggs on 2025-01-24 at 13:46

Dr Andrew Boswell is a hero in #Norwich. He’s a man of science and principle with a willingness to engage constructively in local politics.

He took the government to the High Court because impact assessments arranged for road widening in #Norfolk were crap. #Starmer labelled him an ‘environmental zealot’ just to put others off speaking truth to power.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/24/activist-andrew-boswell-hits-back-at-keir-starmer-for-demonising-him-as-environmental-zealot

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Written by Juggling With Eggs on 2025-01-24 at 13:48

‘This week, #Starmer said he was determined to overhaul the judicial review process to prevent “nimbys and zealots” such as Boswell “gumming up the legal system”.

In a comment piece for the Daily Mail, Starmer accused Boswell and his ilk of trying to “hold the country to ransom” through legal claims that amount to “self-righteous virtue signalling”

Erm…again I ask, what is the difference between Starmer and Trump this week?

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Toot

Written by Juggling With Eggs on 2025-01-24 at 14:13

In case you think I’m over egging Dr Andrew Boswell’s local hero status…

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Descendants

Written by Juggling With Eggs on 2025-01-24 at 14:15

Explanation of why government’s methodology for impact assessments relating to carbon are crap…

‘In the planning system, road user carbon emissions are computed from a traffic model including the scheme, foreseeable land-based developments, other roads schemes, and national assumptions on economic growth. However, only a fraction of this carbon, based on the difference between model outputs with and without the road, is taken forward to assessment’

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Written by Juggling With Eggs on 2025-01-24 at 14:16

‘As only a small fraction of the total transport footprint, this quantity does not account for cumulative effects of other developments, and significantly under-represents the real impacts. This way of calculating road use carbon is a misleading method where every scheme “passes” the carbon test even if emissions may be substantial.’

https://integratedtransport.org.uk/project/andrew-boswell

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