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The planning application for the proposed Waste to Energy Incinerator at Lee Mill is with Devon County Council which means that it is a matter of months, maybe weeks, before the decision will be made. For up to date information on the campaign against this incinerator go to ecoivy.org

On Saturday 12th December there will be a demonstration against the proposed incinerator at New England Quarry, Lee Mill, Ivybridge. Meet outside the Watermark, Ivybridge at 11am. For more information on incinerators look at the recent blog posts on the right of this page.

Transition Town Totnes is holding a Bag Awareness Week from November 16th to November 21st and South Hams Friends of the Earth will be joining TTT to continue our packaging campaign. On Saturday November 14th at 10.30am to herald the beginning of bag week we will be having a group photograph taken on the steps of the civic hall. We hope to have as many people as possible of all political persuasions holding placards with facts about plastic bags and the damage they do to the environment. In Devon, according to SHDC statistics, we use 150,000,000 plastic bags each year.

The food that we eat has a significant, but often hidden,
environmental footprint. Producing it requires evergrowing quantities of land, water, energy and chemicalinputs – which has serious consequences for the
environment.

Meat and dairy production has a particularly large
impact. Intensive farming methods in Europe, which rely
on high-protein animal feeds, have created a global food
chain in which UK poultry, pigs and cattle depend on feed

SLAPTON SANDS BEACH CLEAN UP

Saturday 28th March, 11am at the Memorial car park -

the one midway between Strete Gate and Torcross

Please bring gardening type gloves.

EIGG ELECTRIC

SHFOE member Malcolm Baldwin will be giving a talk and showing his film on Eigg Electric in South Brent Old School Hall at 7.30 on April 1st.

FOSSIL FOOLS DAY ACTION
International Climate Criminal to face trial in Totnes!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to SHFoE'S March newsletter.

AGM Report: A group of us gathered in the Guildhall Totnes to hear FoE's Roger Higman talk

on climate change and biodiversity. There'll be a report on our website soon.
Ian Blackwell was elected Treasurer, Kate Wilson Coordinator and on the committee are Ella

Dangerfield, Steve Melia and Malcolm Baldwin. If you would like to be more involved, please

let us know.

Membership: Membership fees are now due unless you joined SHFoE at Satish Kumar's talk last

SOUTH HAMS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH AGM
8pm Tuesday February 10th
Totnes Guildhall

Roger Higman, Campaigns Coordinator at Friends of the Earth will talk about the Climate Change Act means for Government, Businesses and all of us in our everyday lives.

SHDC will soon produce new DPDs relating to market towns and rural areas. The Totnes and Dartington DPD which was at the Preferred Option Stage has been shelved - we don't really know why - and a new DPD will be written which will be issued at the same time as DPDs for Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Ivybridge and the Rural Areas. These DPDs are intended to allocate sites for employment land and housing and our concern is that any other local considerations will not be included. Below is SHFoE's response to the invitation to contribute to the potential content of the new DPDs.

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us on our Big Ask campaign. Together we have finally got a strong Climate Change Law.

Parliament voted on 28 October for the world-beating legislation after a 3 and a half year campaign by Friends of the Earth. The first of its kind in the world, the Law is a huge step in the fight against climate change.

The Law commits the Government to 80 per cent cuts in the UK's emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, including emissions from aviation and shipping, and with annual targets along the way to keep us on track.