17 September 2021
Debate on a vital climate change risk motion was kicked into the long grass without even getting a hearing.
Proposed by independent councillor Ed Gemmell and Green Party councillor Gregory Smith
Conservatives, determined to prevent open discussion about climate change at the full council meeting on Wednesday 15 September jumped in with a procedural motion to stop climate change risk being debated at all. The motion was deferred to be discussed at a later meeting of the council’s scrutiny committee delaying any chance for implementation.
“This is typical of the Conservative Party in Buckinghamshire under leader Martin Tett” said Ed Gemmell “they will do anything in their power to put off taking action on Climate Change. We also learnt at this council meeting that the council’s Climate Change Strategy, which was agreed by the cabinet at the end of January, will not even be adopted until the end of this year. They seem to think the Climate Emergency is a joke”
Read the full press release from the Impact Alliance here.
