Balcombe - may still be drilling in other places in Sussex - under attack from the human greed for consumption, growth and profit.

A topic for us all, fracking

I didn't know that the well at Balcombe is an old idea and is for OIL not shale gas. But the threat is that there may still be drilling in other places in Sussex with the risk of leakage of chemicals and methane into the environment and the ongoing issue of using high carbon fossil fuels in the first place.


It is an interesting story for us all in the South East. Along with housing development, transport growth on the roads and rail and the ongoing growth of non-essential air travel our beauty and peace is already under attack from the human greed for consumption, growth and profit. Though I would not deny we may need some sort of progress why should this not be in far more balanced and sustainable way, with education and awareness at the foremost of all?





Cuadrilla rules out fracking at Balcombe
Fiona Harvey,Guardian Sustainable Business
24th January 2014
Cuadrilla is to scrap plans to use controversial fracking technology near the village of Balcombe in Sussex – but only because the rocks at its site already contain natural fractures.Balcombe was the site of weeks of protest last summer, as Cuadrilla – the UK's fracking pioneer – moved in to drill an exploratory well to see whether oil could be produced from the site. At the height of the protests, thousands of people joined in the march on the site, and the direct actions taken included protesters blocking the road and chaining themselves to barriers. There were dozens of arrests, including that of the Brighton Green MP, Caroline Lucas.

Cuadrilla had made it clear from the start of its operations that its first plan would be to drill a vertical well at the site to see if oil could be extracted that way, and that if that proved difficult a horizontal well would also be drilled. Fracking would only be used if both those methods proved ineffective, the company said.

On Thursday, the company wrote to residents of Balcombe and released a statement saying that it was applying for an extension to its planning permission for an exploratory well, but added: "The analysis of the samples we obtained from the exploration well confirmed that the target rock underneath Lower Stumble is naturally fractured. The presence of these natural fractures and the nature of the rock means that we do not intend to hydraulically fracture the exploration well at Lower Stumble now or in the future."

Green campaigners said the scrapping of the fracking plans did not erase the problem, and said new fossil fuels would increase the threat from climate change. Friends of the Earth's South East campaigner Brenda Pollack said: "While residents will undoubtedly be relieved that Cuadrilla has ruled out fracking at its Balcombe site, the community still faces the prospect of significant industrial activity on its doorstep. Local people will want more information about Cuadrilla's plans and the potential impacts on their community and environment."

She said: "The threat of fracking elsewhere in Sussex has not disappeared, with applications for drilling in Fernhurst and Wisborough Green by Celtique Energy. With mounting evidence of the threat climate change poses to our environment and economy, we should be developing clean energy solutions, not more dirty fossil fuels."

Vanessa Vine of Frack-Free Sussex, who lives four miles from the site, told the Guardian many people were still highly concerned, and that the difficulty of defining fracking meant that some of the technologies that are still likely to be used at the site amounted to fracking by other terms. She said: "This unconventional fossil fuel technology is damaging to communities, human health and wild ecology at every turn. The impact on road infrastructure will be a nightmare and – if allowed to continue to production stage – the methane flaring will emit dangerous particulates into the air that will adversely affect people living nearby and the methane leakage will contribute dreadfully to greenhouse emissions."

She vowed to continue to fight the plans: "If permission is given for Cuadrilla to recommence operation in Balcombe, their shareholders will come to regret it bitterly and wish they had invested wholly in safe renewable energy technologies instead. People have had enough of being lied to and told that international frack dealers have our communities' best interests at heart."

Juliette Harris, a mother of two who has lived in the village for 35 years, said the site would still be a nuisance, and accused Cuadrilla of ignoring many of residents' concerns. She said: "[Cuadrilla's announcement] does not remove the fact that this would be unconventional extraction. Many experts argue the flow testing is little short of fracking, you will still have 4x A4 pages of chemicals which go into the drilling muds, you will still have flares, air pollution trucks, non-stop drilling, still a desperately under resourced Environment Agency making a couple of visits to the site every few months, and if last year is anything to go by, a non existent presence by the health and safety executive and a county council that sits on its hands and ignores any breaches."

If permission is granted for further tests, it will not be until they are completed that Cuadrilla can be sure that the well will produce oil at a commercially viable rate. A well was drilled on the site in the 1980s by Conoco, but abandoned because it was not economical.

Cuadrilla has three other sites in the north-west of England, but most work has been stopped because of a variety of problems, from small earth tremors to migrating birds. Those sites are for shale gas, while at Balcombe oil is the goal.

Fracking is controversial because it has been associated with air pollution and releases of methane in the US, and in the UK the Environment Agency has warned it could put stress on water supplies, particularly in the heavily populated south-east. Many green campaigners are also concerned that as the world's greenhouse gas emissions increase, the UK should be concentrating on renewable energy instead of new sources of fossil fuels. But proponents say shale gas is lower carbon than coal, could create jobs and could provide an indigenous energy resource as North Sea oil and gas run out.

Cuadrilla's statement said: "In 2013, Cuadrilla drilled a conventional exploration well at the Lower Stumble site, drilling horizontally for some 1,700 feet through the Micrite formation (a type of limestone) at a depth of approximately 2,350 feet below ground level. The company was expecting to and did indeed find oil in the Micrite. However, without flow testing Cuadrilla cannot be sure at what rate the oil may flow to the surface. The new application to flow test includes revised planning boundary lines showing the extent of the horizontal well being tested, and will effectively cover the same well testing work scope that was permitted activity in Cuadrilla's previous planning permission. These proposed flow testing operations are significantly smaller in scope than drilling operations. The main testing operations would last some three to five weeks after which the well would be closed in and monitored for up to 60 days."


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Funding rounds - CHEST (Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks)

 'development of innovative digital solutions that tackle societal challenges'

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Share of €2.5m grant up for grabs for digital innovations tackling green challenges

A new competition is being launched at the end of the month to encourage the development of innovative digital solutions that tackle societal challenges, including those addressing sustainability and environmental issues.

CHEST (Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks) is a 30-month research and development project funded under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework programme. It will launch on January 31 and invest up to €2.5 million (£1.96 million) in seed finance in "highly innovative digital based technologies, concepts and systems" that address a specific social challenge, including the environment and sustainability. Other potential topics include knowledge and education; social inclusion, human rights and equality; civic empowerment and community engagement; health and demographic change; and empowerment and prosperity. All selected solutions will have to have European-wide implications, and not be limited to a single postcode or community.

Crowd selectionAs well as funding, CHEST will facilitate the sharing and exchanging of ideas through an online community platform, which will enable crowd selection to play a key part in the project selection process.

"CHEST offers a unique opportunity to not only propose an idea with the potential to receive fiscal support but also evaluate and comment upon the ideas of others. This concept of crowd based evaluation is becoming increasingly more common for inputs into innovation, soliciting contributions from a broad base of people," Olaf Swanzy, director at PNO Consultants, one of the partners involved in CHEST, told GreenWise.



Funding rounds

The funding will be allocated through three open rounds, the first of which launch on January 31 and will be a 'call for ideas’, with awards of up to €6,000 to explore the technical feasibility or commercial viability of an idea. The first round will close on April 30.

The second round will award up to €150,000 to develop a novel idea to a stage that could be classified as 'market ready with a deadline for submissions on the May 31 2014

The final round will support ideas to make them market ready, including the development of a prototype. Awards will be up to €60,000 per project and the deadline for submissions will be September 30 2014.

"Exciting opportunity"

"CHEST represents any exciting opportunity for anyone with an idea for a solution to a societal challenge," Swanzy said. "We will be looking to support those ideas that have a realistic potential to deliver a real impact at a European level.

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EMERGING DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY - meet 28th FEBRUARY- 2nd MARCH 2014, VILLARCEAUX, FRANCE

between Rouen and Paris on the Oise

CALL FOR A SECOND EUROPEAN MEETING OF COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS and other EMERGING DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, 28th FEBRUARY- 2nd MARCH 2014, VILLARCEAUX, FRANCE go to .................. http://www.urgenci.net/page.php?niveau=1&id=SECOND%20EUROPEAN%20MEETING%20-%202014 and............ http://www.bergerie-villarceaux.org/

1   COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE AND OTHER DIRECT/SHORT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AS AN ANSWER TO THE CRISES Calling all representatives of Community Supported Agriculture initiatives, regional networks, national networks and other related movements around Europe! Do you want to take part in this 2nd European meeting on CSA and emerging distribution systems for Food Sovereignty? This meeting is scheduled to take place from 28th February to 2nd March in Bergerie de Villarceaux, in the Paris region (France). The aims are to establish lasting relationships between Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) activities in Europe, and continue building a common vision for the CSA movement.

2   BACKGROUND: THE RISE OF CSA MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE Picture copyright: Jan Valeska. In recent years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Community Gardens, Grow-it-Yourself, solidarity purchasing groups/cooperatives, and allotments have been increasingly recognized in Europe as a key tool to strengthen the viability of autonomous small-scale and family farmers in the food chain, providing consumers with fresh, healthy, local, organic food, and a means of building more ecologically sound food systems. They have also been identified as a set of practices to achieve genuine Food Sovereignty, the right of people to democratically decide for themselves how food is produced and distributed. Field actors praise CSA as the most practical way of taking action today at grassroots’ level. It is a powerful, simple and non-confrontational way of reversing current economic, environmental and social trends in food production and consumption. Community Supported Agriculture and other emerging systems are definitely part of the answer: they share risks and secure fair prices, markets and cash flow for organic and agro-ecological farmers. They are generating a new type of sustainable family farming that is closely interconnected with local communities, cannot be delocalised, and fosters a solidarity-based economy and social connections between rural and urban communities. They are thus part of a broader Food Sovereignty movement and should be considered as an everyday implementation of Axis 2 of the Nyeleni Europe Declaration, “Changing the Way Food is distributed” . These elements are part of the kind of society to which we all aspire. They now need to be monitored, documented and supported to feed into a coherent, shared strategy. Major meetings have been decisive in consolidating this momentum, especially the Nyeleni Europe Forum on Food Sovereignty, held in Krems, Austria, 16th -21st August 2011, and the First European Meeting on CSA and Other Distribution Systems for Food Sovereignty held in Milan 10-12 October 2012.

Beacon Lane Starter Farm could provide another way to get these people into growing with confidence

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"The aim is to acquire up to 80 acres of prime growing land .... producing sustainable local food and the next generation of sustainable growers too"



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Join us at a planning meeting for the exciting, newly formed Beacon Farms, whose first endeavour will be setting up Beacon Lane Starter Farm. The aim is to acquire up to 80 acres of prime growing land on the outskirts of Bristol (near the Winterbourne Medieval Barns) and turn it into an agriversity - producing sustainable local food and the next generation of sustainable growers too.
This is collaborative, cabaret-table type of gathering - come along to listen, input and get stuck in to working out some action orientated outcomes. Our plans are developing fast and we want you to get involved - bring your passion, ideas, contacts and friends along and help us to plan the future of food on Bristol's Blue Finger!
If you want to read our full concept paper click here: http://bit.ly/BeaconFarms Or read the article in the Nov/Dec issue of the Bristol Local Food update: http://bit.ly/BFNUpdateNovDec
Quote of the week: "I think your farm could be the next Fordhall Farm, but in a way that is much more relevant to rebuilding a sustainable food system" Mark Simmonds, Cooperative Culture
**We will supply a bit of grub - snacks and brownies and things like that to keep your energy up - feel free to bring stuff to eat or share too if you are so inclined**
This event is still being planned so more details will appear here in due course - but we do need people to sign up if they are coming so we know numbers! Just book a place here.
We will be collecting emails for our Update list and asking if people might donate up to £2 on the door to the cost of the venue hire.
Please do forward this to anyone else you think might be interested...This will be a good event to come to to find out what we are doing and to bring your skills and interests along to contribute if you are ready to get your teeth into something foodie in Bristol.

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Beacon Farms Ltd (Registered in England 32271 R) c/o The Better Food Company, The Bristol Proving House, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9LB

BEACON FARMS

BEACON LANE STARTER FARM

8 December 2013

This paper outlines the objectives of Beacon Farms Ltd and the concept for Beacon Lane Starter Farm. It

represents work in progress thinking and all comments are welcome.

BEACON FARMS LIMITED

Beacon Farms Limited is an Industrial Provident Society (IPS) for the Benefit of the Community (CBS or

Ben Com) It has a board of directors and will be able to issue shares to members and protect land

through an asset lock.

The five objectives enshrined in our rules are:

1. Protecting high grade agricultural land, so that it can be used now, and in the future, for the

production of horticultural crops for local urban populations.

2. Making land available for new growers and groups wishing to develop small-scale commercial

enterprises to produce food for the local area using organic and sustainable methods and to sell

into local markets

3. Providing training, and access to accredited qualifications where appropriate, in sustainable

production methods and growing techniques, appropriate technology, and all aspects of running

a sustainable horticultural business.

4. Ensuring that habitat conservation is undertaken.

5. Working with the local community and customers to ensure that the enterprise is

supporting their local food needs and providing opportunities for them to engage with the land

The Founding Directors

Phil Haughton (Chair)

Phil is Director of the Better Food Company and original co-founder of The Community

Farm, Chew Magna. A former Trustee of the Soil Association he has been working

within the local and Organic food scene in Bristol since the early 80s.

Richard Spalding

Richard is a human geographer teaching at UWE Bristol. A trained horticulturist, he

specialises in rural community regeneration projects and has worked for a decade as a

driving force behind Winterbourne Medieval Barn Trust of which he is now a Vice

President.

Bonnie Hewson (Company Secretary)

Bonnie is an environmental project manager and was previously manager of the Soil

Association’s Community Supported Agriculture strand. She has been involved in

community and urban growing projects for the past five years and is passionate about

bringing diversity and local resilience to all parts of the food system.

Rob Sexton (Financial Director)

Rob is CEO of the Soil Association Certification Ltd and was previously Head of

Operations for the Soil Association. He has worked across a wide range of sectors

including the third sector, entrepreneurial enterprises and corporations.

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Beacon Farms Ltd (Registered in England 32271 R) c/o The Better Food Company, The Bristol Proving House, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9LB

BEACON LANE STARTER FARM

The Beacon Lane Starter Farm is the first project of Beacon Farms Ltd and has come about in response to

an opportunity to purchase land crossed by the Blue Finger near Winterbourne. The Blue Finger is an area

of highly fertile Category 1 land originally used for Bristol’s Market Gardens – its reach is outlined in blue

on the map below. Sims Hill Shared Harvest and Feed Bristol are on Bristol’s bit of the Blue Finger, whilst

the land we are looking at is on the South Gloucestershire side.

The 65 acres that are for sale are also adjacent to a further 17 acres of land owned by South

Gloucestershire Council that may be able to be acquired on a long lease or Asset Transfer. The site is

bounded by the M4 to the west, the railway line to the south, the Bradley Brook to the east and Beacon

Lane to the north; it is also crossed by Western Power lines and public footpaths and is accessed along a

single-access roadway from Beacon Lane.

The land is situated less than half a mile (7 min walk) from the Winterbourne Medieval Barn Trust, a

community-led project based on heritage and food and farming education.

The land we are looking at is marked in

two shades of green in the centre of the

map.

The Bradley brook, footpaths, contour

lines and power pylons are also shown.

Larger darker green area

= Land for sale

Smaller bright green area

= South Glos owned land

Pale blue area

= Blue Finger land

The Winterbourne Medieval Barns can

be seen at the top of the map, by the

church symbol.

The objectives of the Beacon Lane Starter Farm follow the objectives of the overarching IPS:

 ensuring the appropriate use and care of high quality soil;

 producing food for the local area via organic and sustainable methods;

 helping more people to grow into running small scale commercial food enterprises;

 wider care of the land including habitat management and community engagement.

To achieve these aims the first step will be to acquire the land, partly through Asset Transfer from South

Gloucestershire and partly through purchase from a private owner. We are putting together a funding

plan to include a community share offer as well as other forms of social investment, donations and

grants. The community share offer would be open to all as well as being locally targeted at South

Gloucestershire and Bristol businesses. It is important that funds are raised not only to buy the land but

to develop the infrastructure needed on the site, such as access, fencing and water supply, to make it

ready for horticultural use.

After the land has been secured and prepared it is anticipated an educational enterprise, or number of

enterprises, will be established on site, including incubator units or an ‘agriversity’ for new budding

growers and groups wishing to develop small-scale commercial enterprises to sell into local markets. We

are still developing the business model and income streams for this aspect of the project but have some

ideas of what we hope to offer. This phase will also require some investment, through grants, crowd-

funding and other income streams.

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Beacon Farms Ltd (Registered in England 32271 R) c/o The Better Food Company, The Bristol Proving House, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9LB

Summary Budget

DEVELOPMENT COSTS

Planning (inc Project Manager) 41,000

Land Purchase (inc legal fees) 454,500

Development (inc Site Manager, Access, Buildings, Water etc) 789,000

Operational set-up (inc Education Manager) 22,000

Working Capital (1st yr operational capital) 91,168

Total 1,397,668

Professional Fees for fund raising 13,977

Fund Raising Fees to intermediaries 55,907

TOTAL CAPITAL REQUIREMENT 1,467,551

P&L YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3

Total Income (inc. Education & course fees, income from produce) 186,000 278,400 322,200

Total operating costs (inc. 4.5 FTE staff) 143,625 160,553 173,748

Total overheads 38,710 46,929 52,791

EBITDA 3,665 70,919 95,661

Loan Interest 22,013 17,611 13,208

Earnings After Interest - 18,348 53,308 82,453

CASHFLOW YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3

Cash Opening 91,168 44,117 83,723

Cash Closing 44,117 83,723 167,474

What would the enterprise offer?

 Entry routes into horticulture for young people, possibly including engagement for local schools,

school leavers and young people through The Diploma in Environmental and Land-Based Studies

which offers a potential route into higher education from school study.

 Training in sustainable production methods for developing growers - growing techniques, use of

appropriate technology, soil management, propagation, plant raising, seed saving, crop

planning, protected cropping and many more elements.

 Access to mentoring, training and horticultural qualifications, this could include weekly

horticultural classes/workshops and tuition in marketing and business planning. We hope the

education aspects can be delivered in collaboration with the Winterbourne Medieval Barn Trust.

 Services such as a contractor to do all tractor work, running a seed bank and group purchasing of

plants, plugs and seeds, access to and maintenance of shared infrastructure such as water,

equipment, composting etc.

 A marketing group to ensure all produce finds a supportive local market.

 Habitat conservation and ways for local people to engage with the land e.g. orchard picking,

meadow planting and forest gardening.

 Collaboration with the community and other customers to ensure that the enterprise is

supporting their local food needs. There is likely to be an element of CSA to the business with

local people and other loyal customers being able to have a closer relationship with the land and

paying in advance for produce to cash flow the farm through the year.

How would the site work?

This business may be similar in some ways to FarmStart in Canada, and now in Manchester thanks to The

Kindling Trust. There may be a cooperatively run farming education enterprise with a graduated system

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of adjacent plots of different scales to suit different levels of experience amongst the students - from

entrants who have only ever had an allotment to those with a couple of years of growing experience.

Students would be responsible for working within the cooperative on shared tasks and deciding who

grows what where, as well as ensuring the productivity of their allocated plot. Other units of land could

also be available for graduated growers, small complementary enterprises and groups and organisations

wanting to help people to build positive future skills and confidence e.g. people on probation.

Where would applicants come from?

There are a large number of community growing projects and allotments in and around Bristol which

could feed in growers hoping to enhance their skills and scale up to commercial activities. The Bristol

Food Network is undertaking some research into the different types of growing projects in the city and

the ambitions of the groups and their members - this will help to give us a clearer picture of our potential

applicants. There are around 500 applicants to The Soil Associations Apprenticeship scheme, with only

around 50 places offered. Beacon Lane Starter Farm could provide another way to get these people into

growing with confidence as well as offering a ‘next stage’ opportunity to graduated apprentices.

Using the site to best effect

Some parts of the site are better suited to vegetable growing, other parts to orchards, conservation

grazing, wildlife habitats, forest garden or shelters/tools stores for growers. Some zoning of the site

needs to be done bearing in mind soil quality, slope, aspect, flooding and drainage, access to water, wind

and noise breaks, public footpaths, access to Western Power lines.

South facing roves on sheds and barns erected on the site may be used for solar power generation. There

are parts of the site, accessed via footpaths, which might also lend themselves to other uses such as

green burial or Woodcraft Camps.

As the single track access to the site Beacon Lane isn’t currently suitable for large numbers of cars coming

and going at one time, community events may be held at nearby locations, such as the Winterbourne

Medieval Barn. The main uses of the site will involve commercial growing and education for small

numbers of course members. Parking will also be sought in proximity to the footpaths that enter the site.

How would the produce be marketed?

A project brand would be established to give produce market appeal. Wherever possible new markets

will be sought and developed, including through local business and institutions e.g. the University

campus, Hewlet Packard, Rolls Royce; through existing farm shops and new shops as part of planned local

developments at Harry Stoke and Cribbs Patch; through demonstration kitchens and other local

processors; through local box schemes, businesses and wholesalers e.g. The Community Farm, The

Severn Project, Bristol Veg Boxes, The Better Food Company and St Philips.

What Next?

We are talking to stakeholders, advisors and funders and are developing our business model and

attracting support and funds to help us prepare for acquisition of the land. Please do get in touch to let us

know your thoughts and how you or your organisation would like to be involved.

Bonnie Hewson, Company Secretary | Mobile: 07816858053 | Email: beaconlanestarterfarm@gmail.com

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Beacon Lane Starter Farm, Bristol. Working on a land revolution. Protecting high grade agricultural land, so that it can be used ..... for local urban populations.

Working on a land revolution

The aim is to acquire up to 80 acres of prime growing land on the outskirts of Bristol (near the Winterbourne Medieval Barns) and turn it into an agriversity - producing sustainable local food and the next generation of sustainable growers too. 

 

Beacon Lane Starter Farm

The aims of the newly constituted Beacon Farms Limited include:
1. Protecting high grade agricultural land, so that it can be used now, and in the future, for the production of horticultural crops for local urban populations.
2. Making land available for new growers and groups wishing to develop small-scale commercial enterprises to produce food for the local area using organic and sustainable methods and to sell into local markets
3. Providing training, and access to accredited qualifications where appropriate, in sustainable production methods and growing techniques, appropriate technology, and all aspects of running a sustainable horticultural business.
4. Ensuring that habitat conservation is undertaken.
5. Working with the local community and customers to ensure that the enterprise is supporting their local food needs and providing opportunities for them to engage with the land.

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