The following report is by The Daily Mail:
Plans to chop down 500 mature trees in an orchard to make way for a guided busway have been approved by councillors on the grounds it will help reduce climate change.
Coton Orchard, near Cambridge, has around 1,000 trees producing 26 varieties of apples, as well as plums and pears, and is a designated habitat of primary importance.
But county councillors voted 33 to 26 in favour of the new bus-only route which will link the university city with Cambourne, a growing new town eight miles away.
The decision came despite 2,300 opponents signing a petition and impassioned pleas during the full council meeting to reconsider the ‘utterly destructive’ proposal.
Anna Gazeley, whose family own the orchard which was planted in 1922 to produce apples for wholesale trade in Covent Garden, told councillors:
Traditional orchards are hotspots of biodiversity in the countryside, supporting a wide range of wildlife as well as an array of nationally rare and nationally scarce species.
They are designated habitats of primary importance and rightly accorded protections.
Steve Oram, orchard biodiversity manager at the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, said the £160million bus route was an ‘utterly destructive proposal’, adding the environmental loss ‘cannot be compensated for’.
Coton Parish Council has previously warned the guided busway would save just 1.5 to 3.5 minutes on a typical journey compared to using an on-road bus lane.
But Lib Dem council leader Lucy Nethsingha referred to a UN report this week which highlighted the need to decarbonise economies.
She said:
Quality public transport links are a key part of decarbonization. Moving to a net zero economy cannot be done without changing the way we travel.
The council will seek approval from the Government and a public enquiry will take place before a final decision is made.
The scheme was devised by the Greater Cambridge Partnership, which is already under fire for hugely unpopular proposals to introduce a £5-a-day charge for cars – more for vans and lorries – on weekday journeys to, from and within a zone that covers virtually the entire city.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
2 Timothy 3:9
This is typical greenie, eco-warrior wisdom at work: destroy nature and the food supply in the name of saving the environment, and then blame you for producing too much carbon as the reason why there are food shortages.
I’ve covered other examples of the greenies destroying the environment to push their “green” infrastructure, as the activists turn a blind eye.
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European Commission Faces Lawsuit For Trying Push Nuclear Energy As “Green”
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Typical hypocrisy of opposite land liars. Just like the ‘awesome’ crass bull of ‘piper’…bot.
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Eze 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Eze 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Eze 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Eze 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Eze 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.