HS2 Ltd Chose Most Destructive and Cheapest Option for Phase 2b.
The Stop HS2 campaign has decried the route proposed for Phase 2b of HS2 is the “Most destructive and cheapest option”, as the proposed scheme is expected to displace more jobs than it creates, knock...
View ArticleFormer HS2 Boss Admits “Nobody Knows” What HS2 Will Cost, Calls for Euston...
Former chair of HS2 Ltd Sir Terry Morgan appeared before the Lords Economic Affairs Committee on Tuesday, and demonstrated exactly why last summer he was chair of HS2 Ltd for about as long as an extra...
View ArticleHave You Lost Money Due to HS2? Then it’s Time to Report HS2 Ltd to the...
Yes, you did read that headline right! Over the years, many people have demonstrated that the case for HS2 is what many people would call ‘fraudulent’: that there may have been financial conflicts of...
View ArticleHS2 to Blow a Quarter of a Billion on Keeping Costs Down
In an admission that they have lost control of both the management and the costs of the £55.7bn project, HS2 Ltd are looking for two firms which will be paid £230 million between them, to manage...
View ArticleNotice to Proceed Delayed (again) to December
The Sunday Telegraph reported at the weekend that “Notice to Proceed” on building HS2 has been delayed again to December 2019. Notice to Proceed is a key marker in the building of HS2: as HS2 Chair,...
View ArticleHS2 Win Added Protection to Drill Through Contaminated Landfill Into Aquifer
Yesterday, the High Court found in favour of HS2 Ltd, and extended the injunction currently in operation around the Colne Valley park in Harefield. The original injunction which was granted last year...
View ArticleDfT come clean and admit HS2 construction hasn’t started, whilst HS2 Ltd...
One of the standard tropes currently being used by supporters of HS2 at the moment is to pretend that they have started building it, despite the fact the project has not yet received the final...
View ArticleHS2 go-ahead is “shamelessly opportunistic” and pretends coronavirus will...
Today, at the height of the coronavirus crisis, the Department for Transport has issued HS2 Ltd with ‘Notice to Proceed’, stating that this will provide the construction industry with certainty and...
View ArticleCovid means “The case for building HS2 has gone from questionable to...
Today, the Government announced the official start of construction on phase 1 of HS2, with Boris Johnson keen to herald the projected creation of 22,000 construction jobs, but rather less keen to...
View ArticleHS2, and just some of the reasons why the whole thing is fraud
A couple of weeks ago, we let you know that my application for permission for a Judicial Review into HS2 issuing ‘Notice to Proceed’ was refused, but what we didn’t expand on was what it was all about....
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