The Low Carbon Hub is a bunch of politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats that is supposed to be driving low carbon action in Greater Manchester. (See its Terms of Reference here). It dramatically replaced the chocolate-teapot Environment Commission in October 2012.
It meets in private. One of its members, Roger Milburn of Arup, raised this as an issue at the March 2013 meeting.
To me, that looks like a fob off. Well, things have – as they so often do – gotten worse.
There is a meeting this Friday. Although the papers were circulated to all the Hubbers and various others on Friday 30th August – see this screengrab (we’ve removed the email details to protect our source; thanks Richard!)
they haven’t been put on the AGMA website. But we have acquired them.
So here is the agenda for that meeting, that you can’t go to.
And here are the papers for the meeting. That you can’t go to.
[UPDATE 21.52pm 04 September – This is probably the wrong thing to do, but I am temporarily removing the hyperlinks to these papers. They will be restored on Friday afternoon.]
01 Agenda 6 Sep 13
03 Minutes LCH 14 June 13 Final1
04 Wind and Micro Hydro Programme
05 Sustainable Procurement Paper
06 Green Deal Funding
07 Business Plan and Theme Review
08 Feedback from R4GG Peer Review
10 Energy procurement
11 NEDO Heat Trails
This is Manchester. We do things “differently” here.
Marc Hudson
mcmonthly@gmail.com
manchester climate monthly 
Hi Marc – you’re currently posting faster than I can read & digest – maybe ‘cos the time’s nearly up and you want to flame out hotter than the walkie scorchi ..
Anyway – you are missing a KEY POINT about the Low Carbon Hub as this Greater Manchester wide secrecy impacts on NINE other districts besides the mighty Manchester
Please, please tell Lush you want to paint the bigger picture here and go sub-regional
Hi Rob,
yeah, sorry about that – stories breaking etc etc. You are right re: the secrecy of the LCH and its impacts. I feel guilty that I am, in a small way, contributing to that secrecy (I have removed the hyperlinks to the articles, temporarily).
I find it STAGGERING that our Lords and Masters think that this is the way they are allowed to act – meeting in secret, refusing to put up papers beforehand (and these are innocuous papers)
I have been staring at the madness that is the climateriat in Manchester for too long, I think, and am going to change focus a little bit, towards open-ness, transparency etc.
Marc Hudson