{"id":1218,"date":"2014-09-09T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2014-09-09T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:19:47","slug":"eco-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Eco time bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking to a motion on floods and climate change, Unite delegate and finance rep Stella Ridgway, told of her personal experience as a narrowboat resident, of the results of not dredging waterways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s track record on the environment is abysmal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe withdrawal of tax breaks for renewable\/carbon-neutral energy resources such as solar power in favour of extreme energy like \u00e2\u20ac\u015bfracking\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 is nonsensical until you \u00e2\u20ac\u015bfollow the money\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and find that there are advisors and members of this government with vested interests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said she was disappointed in Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Caroline Flint, who was not against fracking when done safely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stella said that unless action was taken she could, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bsee an environmental time bomb, consigning future generations to lives without clean water.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a motion on floods and climate change, Unite delegate and finance rep Stella Ridgway, told of her personal experience as a narrowboat resident, of the results of not dredging waterways. &nbsp; She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s track record on the environment is abysmal. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe withdrawal of tax breaks for renewable\/carbon-neutral energy resources such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"wps_subtitle":"Respect environment or pay price","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}