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We need sustainable transport! Well done @fmwales for choosing #NoNewM4. This road across the wildlife-rich Gwent Levels would've increased traffic & emissions.
Newport, Wales
Joined August 2013
We are asking candidates in #Senedd2021 to support our ongoing campaign to keep @GwentLevels free of motorways - and to work towards sustainable transport for all.
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The future of @GwentLevels continually threatened by damaging development proposals. We have David and Goliath battles on our hands, for which we need a fighting fund. Please help by donating, sharing and sharing again. https://t.co/tCMbuC2Eyy
gofundme.com
Friends of the Gwent Levels are raising funds to protect our environment. The Gwent Leve… Keith Wakley needs your support for Battle to save the Gwent Levels
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Save the Levels - AGAIN. Petitions to sign (follow the QR code) and a public meeting.
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Is the Welsh Government right to scrap all plans for work to increase capacity the M4 on the stretch through south Wales? https://t.co/HItWjL5Koy
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Hahaha - it turns out that there were plans to build a station at St Mellons long before @HendreLakes made out that it was all their own idea and that there would need to be a 'business district' to justify it. This is from the 1880s.
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Good work. We didn't spend all that time protecting the Levels from a motorway only to see it attacked from another quarter.
Along with our friends @GwentWildlife and @CPRW_UK we've been busy preparing submissions to try to stop another massive solar farm on the Levels. Renewable energy good - plastering solar panels all over fragile wetland ecosystems bad. #biodiversitycrisis #ecosystems
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Creative win-win ways of generating solar without trashing green fields. How about it @WGClimateChange @WGRural? Let's tackle #biodiversitycrisis and #ClimateCrisis in one. https://t.co/aiJGcBNOMc
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We are furious too. This is not in the spirit of @WelshGovernment plans for a Future Wales. It's outdated thinking and has no place in 2022 @sophiehowe @MarkDrakeford
We are furious about this. A railway station here is a good idea - though not a park and ride that brings in hundreds of cars every day. The 'business district' on SSSI is a damaging white elephant. As @orbiscat rightly said, the developers held a gun to @cardiffcouncil's head.
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The idea of constructing new office space with parking for hundreds of cars on the outskirts of Cardiff is wrong and totally at odds with @WelshGovernment policy on how we should be shaping our future.
@cardiffcouncil appear to have approved plans for a massive new 'business park' on SSSI land, profoundly harming #biodiversity. There are 1000s of sq ft of empty office space in Cardiff already. Please, @WGClimateChange, put a stop to this madness. It's 2022 - not 1975.
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WHAT????!!! Have we learned nothing about the benefits of green space for mental and physical health? It's 2022, guys. Let's stop turning the world into one big car park. How about better public transport and then people won't need so many cars?
Green space could be used to solve Ty-Sign parking problems
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Here are two beauties you might see on a daily basis on the Gwent Levels - the elusive Cetti's warbler and the even more elusive water rail. But they're under constant threat from speculative development. Join us to help protect them. https://t.co/5s8kgFaZys
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This has got to change. We need legislation to put sustainable transport at the core of every new development. https://t.co/zTb6jX8Jum
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Yes please.
The Cardiff to Newport route could eventually be extended to Barry as well https://t.co/YiUbWXaK2z
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ICYMI @WildlifeTrusts session on community campaigning with @saverimrose @ShefEnvironment
https://t.co/2GdNnJHMjb
@JulianHoffman @cjlinstrum - hope for the future.
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This was an honour for us too - to be able to share the happiness of our successful outcome with like-minded people. @saverimrose is a fantastic campaign and they deserve every bit of luck and love they can get.
It was a real honour to take part in @WildlifeTrusts 'Wild LIVE' panel last night. Catherine's story of the @GwentLevels campaign gave us HOPE. They defeated proposals to extend the M4, proving it CAN be done. Hear this and other amazing stories here: https://t.co/KHo10u3XBv
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Our very own @cjlinstrum taking part in a fantastic discussion about community action Wild LIVE: Communities Taking Action https://t.co/NpYzcMOx0W via @YouTube
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As long as Wales has a lamentable and prohibitively expensive rail service people will stick to their cars. We need an overhaul and we need subsidies. @CBTransport @SustransCymru
Wales' great train robbery continues. Boris Johnson was challenged during PMQs about how the UK Government was treating HS2 as an England and Wales project despite no track at all being laid in Wales. This has cost Wales over £5bn. His response was woeful. [Thread]
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You can read the full issues with the UK Government approach to rail funding in their thread here:
Today I approached the UK Government to ask them to explain how HS2 actually benefits Wales. I have to say, the response was pathetic. It just showed how they simply don't understand the sheer extent to which Wales is missing out. Let me explain. [Thread]
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Congrats to @SaveStonehenge. I’m sure fellow-supporters of our @CalmCampaign which helped stop the M4 bypass destroying the Gwent Levels will be equally delighted. BW for the ultimate victory of your campaign. Thank you to the Judges too.
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A judicial review into road works near the world heritage site finds for the campaigners.
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All of us who love the Levels welcome this statement from @JulieJamesMS @WGClimateChange today. Taking action to protect this landscape is the right thing to do. Thanks to @JGriffithsLab @GwentWildlife @ourlivinglevels for the amazing work they do here. https://t.co/JF6wAGkD37
gov.wales
Julie James, Minister for Climate Change
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Wales takes the lead in facing up to the implications of climate change for transport policy - future generations will be thankful. @CPRW_UK @CalmCampaign @Amanwy @futuregencymru 🏴🏴
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