Environment

Bristol and Beyond

Opinion: Why progressive cities let cyclists run red lights

Knee-jerk reactions are putting lives at risk. It’s time to reform cycling laws based on sound science and not tabloid headlines, argues Simon Oxenham.

Simon Oxenham

Reports

Avonmouth: Controversial industrial plant given green light by Environment Agency

Residents angry after Environment Agency announces at an inquiry it is “satisfied” the incinerator waste plant should be given permit to operate.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Features

Fate of controversial Avonmouth industrial plant to be decided

Council ‘error’ leaves waste processing plant’s future down to Planning Inquiry.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Bristol and Beyond

Paradise Papers: watch exclusive interview with chairman of Glencore – world’s biggest mining company

The Cable grills Tony Hayward, former CEO of BP and current chairman of Glencore, which recently featured in the Paradise Papers.

Alon Aviram Adam Cantwell-Corn
Alon Aviram and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Voices

OPINION: BBC wrong to host climate skeptic

Cable member Graham McGrath, a Bristol-based environmental consultant, says the BBC were wrong to host Lord Lawson, the well known climate skeptic.

Graham McGrath

Ideas and Action

Beyond food banks: Solutions for feeding Bristol

Laurie King, from Sims Hill Shared Harvest, explains the need for a holistic approach to tackle food insecurity – and the projects, including Sims Hill’s...

Laurie King

Investigations

Factory farms: Six-fold increase in Gloucestershire and Somerset permits since 2010

Intensive farming has rapidly expanded across the UK in the last decade. The Cable takes a look at the south-west picture.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

Plutus Energy return with diesel plant plans

Energy company appeal planning decision for diesel power station in Lawrence Hill.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Voices

Catastrophic thinking, with author Robert Muir-Wood

The author of ‘The Cure for Catastrophe: How we can stop manufacturing natural disasters’ met up with one of the Cable Media Lab at Bristol...

Ann Burke

Bristol and Beyond

Air quality: Blue sky thinking?

UWE Bristol researchers are creating a ‘toolkit’ for radical, citizen-led action on air pollution.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Edition 10

Forget the vinegar, the real reek is inaction on glyphosates

Forget the vinegar, the real reek is inaction on glyphosates...

Zaheer Mamon

Bristol and Beyond

Meet the man desperately trying to frack the South West

Somerset is the latest target for Gerwyn Williams, who’s been leading a one-man dash for gas throughout Wales and the West Country. Lucky for the county, he’s got a pretty thin track record of actually getting near any drills.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson
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