556 results returned for search: "" category "Environment" author Owain Johnston-Barnes
A $1.5 million fundraising campaign has been launched to transform 10 acres in Southampton into a new public nature reserve.
Buy Back Bermuda, a collaborative initiative between the Bermuda National Trust and the Bermuda Audubon Society, announced la...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A three-storey water tank in Botanical Gardens erected as part of a controversial maintenance yard plan at the park has been disassembled.
While construction of the maintenance yard was halted in 2015 after a public outcry, the water tower built on t...
DATE: Dec 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Plots of land in Warwick and Hamilton Parish have formally been named nature reserves, the House of Assembly heard on Friday.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said that 16.6 acres of former golf course at Riddell’s Bay and 3.4 acres of lan...
DATE: Dec 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Environmental groups have called on the Minister of Home Affairs to overturn a decision to allow development on Devonshire Marsh.
Island Construction was given the green light by the Development Applications Board in August to erect three two-storey ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The architectural heritage of Southampton has been highlighted in the latest – and final – edition of the Bermuda National Trust’s Architectural Heritage book series.
The series, which started in 1995, took a parish-by-parish look at the island’s bui...
DATE: Nov 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
New plans to turn a section of parkland into an events lawn and a parking lot for the Bermudiana Beach Resort have been submitted - despite the previous rejection of similar proposals. The Bermuda Audubon Society this week called the proposed use of...
DATE: Nov 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A swath of the former Riddell’s Bay Golf Course has officially become a nature reserve, according to a government notice.
A total of 16.6 acres on the southwestern portion of the land has been designated a nature reserve under a protected land agreem...
DATE: Nov 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The importation and sale of gas-powered vehicles could be banned by 2035 as part of a push towards the electrification of vehicles on the island.
Tom Oppenheim, the Deputy Governor, announced during the Throne Speech yesterday that the Government wil...
DATE: Nov 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Ministry of Home Affairs does not intend to reverse planning approval for a medical waste incinerator to be built in St David’s.
While the plan sparked an outcry among concerned St David’s residents at a heated meeting this week, a spokesman for ...
DATE: Nov 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A businessman said his life was threatened at a stormy public meeting held in St David’s over a medical waste facility planned for Southside.
Donte Hunt, chief executive of MediWaste, said he had declined to take action but reported the matter to pol...
DATE: Nov 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes