Category Archives: Liz Truss

Miliband and Truss combine to declare EU best for climate action. #EUreferendum

Posted on May 2, 2016 by

          Ed Miliband surfaced from the political ocean depths today, to join forces with Liz Truss. There’s a sentence I never expected to write. With Caroline Lucas and former LibDem energy minister Ed Davey, they have … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds Directive, dogs, EU referendum, greenspace, housing, Liz Truss, lowland heathland | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Food or Floods?

Posted on January 6, 2016 by

So much has been written about the recent flooding, that I have resisted the temptation to jump in with size 12 boots; not least because, so far, we have escaped the worst of it in the south-west. However, I read … Continue reading →

Posted in deregulation, Dieter Helm, farming, flooding, Kerry McCarthy, Liz Truss | Tagged , , , , | 19 Comments

More golden balls from Defra: You are spoiling us, Rural Ambassador!

Posted on December 22, 2015 by

We may have been led to believe that the avalanche of Government announcements on “take out the trash day” last Friday, signalled the end of “work” for the year, but today holds one further surprise. As reported in the Telegraph, … Continue reading →

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New additions to Defra Board will not upset Truss’s plans to cut Natural England or Environment Agency

Posted on November 16, 2015 by

Reading through the excellent CIEEM monthly policy briefing email, I noticed that Natural England Chair Andrew Sells and Environment Agency chair Sir Phillip Dilley, had recently joined the Defra Board in ex-officio capacities. Defra Board, in case you were wondering, … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Sells, Defra, Liz Truss, lobbying, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Natural England steps into the Tumbrel

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

Liz Truss has apparently already agreed to a 32% cut to the Defra budget for the 4 years from 2016-17 onwards. This impressive feat allows her to sit on the panel which resides over the imposition of cuts on other, … Continue reading →

Posted in Defra, George Osborne, Liz Truss, Natural England, SSSis | Tagged , , , , , | 14 Comments

Beavers: Common Sense may have broken out at Defra

Posted on November 14, 2014 by

The Beavers of the River Otter in Devon have been under threat of being “rehomed” in a zoo, thanks to pressure from The Angling Trust (no beavers do not eat fish). This was partly due to paranoia that the beavers … Continue reading →

Posted in angling, badgers, Beavers, bees, Defra, Liz Truss, Owen Paterson | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Liz Truss gases on about Solar Farms, ignores threat from Maize.

Posted on November 5, 2014 by

The new  Environment Secretary Liz Truss has led a charge against solar farms recently, announcing that they should not be used on productive farmland, which is there to produce food. She called them “a blight on the landscape” and announced … Continue reading →

Posted in biogas, Liz Truss, Maize, Solar Farms, Somerset Levels, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments