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Green Party Councillor Dilys Cluer has been selected by Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Green Party as their prospective candidate for the Scarborough and Whitby constituency at the next General Election. Cllr. Cluer was elected as a councillor for Stepney Ward in 2007 after standing numerous times in local elections, but this is the first time she has been chosen as a prospective parliamentary candidate. The local party chose her by postal ballot following a local hustings meeting. Cllr. Cluer said, "I am honoured to have been given the chance of representing the Green Party at this level. After working on green issues at local level for many years as a campaigner and now on the Council, I have the experience necessary to take on this wider challenge. "My theme at the next General Election, in addition to any others chosen by the party, will be climate change and energy security. Unlike many other people, I have not been surprised by the huge rise in fuel price this year. "For decades Greens have been pointing out that many of the planet's resources are finite. Now that fact is being brought to the fore in respect of oil. There may well be other factors involved in the current oil price inflation, but the stark fact behind it is a permanent and rapidly increasing supply and demand problem. To have energy security we must rapidly reduce our demand for energy and find other ways of producing what we need. "Climate change is an even more pressing problem. For all its fine words, the government has not been effective in reducing our emissions of climate-changing gases. Our country is near the bottom of the European table for the percentage of energy produced from renewable sources. Gordon Brown obviously does not understand the urgent need for action, since his response to the high oil price was to urge the production of more oil! "Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was predicting that all the Arctic sea ice might melt in summer by 2080 or even 2030. Now, just one year later, observations have led scientists to think that it may all melt next summer. We cannot wait any longer before taking drastic action on climate change. "We cannot wait for international agreements. We need to implement serious climate protection measures in this country and then we can urge others to follow. I demand nothing less." Published and printed by Dilys Cluer on behalf of Scarborough Green Party, both at 19 Alexandra Park Scarborough YO12 5JN | ||||||||
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