Norfolk Incinerator Song

Video of the King's Lynn/Downham Market incinerator protest at County Hall last Friday, shot by William Alderson. Song by Nico and the Downham Market Underground (John Preston - Downham and Villages in Transition)

Norfolk Incinerator protest - 29 June

Norfolk County Council is threatening West Norfolk with a mass burn incinerator. Like nuclear waste, it is perfectly safe. It is to be sited 2 miles from King’s Lynn, near farming land and near the Wash, with its shellfish beds. Nobody in West Norfolk wants this – 90% of 65,000 polled said NO INCINERATOR. The campaign against it are King’s Lynn Without Incinerator (KLWIN) and the Farmers’ Campaign. In 2010 there was a 400 strong demonstration outside the Town Hall (from a population of 30,000). When BBC Question Time visited Lynn, the unofficial mention of the incinerator stopped the show!

West Norfolk musicians and poets, a number in DOWNHAM AND VILLAGES IN TRANSITION, got together and made a CD of excellent and pertinent songs and poems about the incinerator. They then launched a Living Room Tour, where they performed in people’s houses and sold the CD, thus raising over £300 for the KLWIN campaign.

On Friday 29^th June at 10.00 a.m. at County Hall, the Planning Committee will decide whether to build the incinerator despite the overwhelming public opposition. A lot of people are going to invade Norwich to protest and we will be singing our Incinerator Hymn! Come and join us!

For background read our "Dash for Ash" story by Andrew Boswell here

Transition Circle Hethersett - 18 March

In February we met at Ruth's house in Hethersett to talk about how we should respond to the large scale housing developments that are planned for the area. There is more about this on the blog . Five people shared a meal and we also talked about the sucess of our first food order from Rainbow Wholesale and just how much food you can get on one bicycle - about 20kg! The idea is to cut down on packaging and to make organic produce available at reasonable prices. We are planning another order in March and have placed some publicity in the village magazine in order to encourage more people to join in. John Heaser

Our next meeting is on March 18th in Little Melton and we will be talking about the the Story of Stuff - email us at hethersett@transitionnorwich.org
if you would like to come along.

Recycle Together

Recycle Together was launched by the Waste Group to the 17,000 members of Norwich Freecycle in February. It was created by members of TN Zero Waste group to help the users of the Mile Cross recycling centre in Norwich. Users can offer to take things to the centre or can ask for help with transport. The objective is to encourage recycling and to reduce car journeys - especially for flat dwellers who do not get a kerbside collection. The group has 44 members so far and is proving very effective. Contact http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Recycle-TogetherUKNorfolkMileX/