Bristol City council must support the community and reject Tesco | Sam Allen. Thousands have been campaigning for more than a year to stop Tesco opening in Stokes Croft, Bristol. The reasons for not wanting a Tesco in our community range from the impact on local shops and farmers through to deep concerns that the dominance of the supermarket model creates a risk of us not being able to feed ourselves in a future when oil prices soar.
More than 2,500 petition cards were sent to Bristol City Council objecting to Tesco and 96% of the 700 people surveyed said they didn't want another supermarket. We have painstakingly played it by the rules, coming up with a multitude of creative ways to make it clear how unwanted this development is and that it goes against everything our community stands for. We have fought Tesco through the planning system, making an overwhelmingly strong case, backed by lawyers. Our objections clearly outlined how opening this Tesco store would pose a threat to public safety. Interview: Andrew Simms | Society. Andrew Simms first took on Tesco a decade ago when he was working on a Christian Aid campaign on supermarket supply chains in developing countries.
Tesco, he recalls, was the "most vigorous" in its response, pledging to address criticisms about poor pay and conditions. Fast forward to the company's AGM last year, where Simms witnessed workers from plantations in developing countries stand up and ask why they were having to work in such appalling conditions. "Despite [Tesco's] assurances, nothing had changed," Simms says. It was Tesco's seeming ability to act with impunity that fuelled Simms' determination to write a book exposing how the inexorable rise of supermarkets is bad for everyone - from poorly paid workers in the field, to small, independent shops fast going out of business, to the over-exploited natural environment.
The result is Tescopoly. "Tesco is an expression of a winner-take-all dynamic at the heart of the business sector at the moment," Simms says. Clone towns Optimistic. Third World Wealth | Ideafeed | September 18, 2010.
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New Hampshire repeals cap and trade | New Hampshire House of Representatives votes to repeal cap and trade law. The New Hampshire House of Representatives today voted overwhelmingly — 246 to 104 — for New Hampshire to become the first state to repeal an up-and-running global warming cap-and-trade energy tax system. The state senate is expected to follow suit with a similarly veto-proof repeal. The move has major implications both in the region and nationally. Since 2008, New Hampshire has been one of the 10 members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a power plant-only cap-and-trade system that holds quarterly auctions requiring electric utilities to buy carbon dioxide permits.
The cost of those permits is buried in the rate base and passed on to customers in the form of higher electricity prices. The tab is $28.2 million so far and rising — the state budget estimate for the next year jumped to $70 million in hidden energy taxes under the RGGI cap-and-trade program. Phil Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity.