You may have heard of one or more industrial decarbonisation projects planned across the North West, such as HyNet or the Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power project.
Enterprise Cheshire and Warrington, working together with a group of public, private and voluntary organisations, are undertaking a project to better understand your views on these projects. The first step of this project is to run a series of focus groups to gauge understanding and sentiment about ideas like industrial decarbonisation and net zero.
So, what does industrial decarbonisation actually mean to you?
We’d love to know what you think about this and other associated words, including ‘the low carbon economy’, ‘green jobs’, ‘net zero’ or ‘climate emergency’.
As a first step to understanding what people currently think about these concepts and the projects planned, we’re running a series of focus groups and we’d love for you to get involved.
The plan is to use these focus groups to capture your thoughts, views and perceptions and use that to ensure future communications about the projects are based on what people living in the community think and understand about them.
The focus groups will not be designed to provide a platform to express concerns about the projects closest to you, as that happens separately through the planning process and public consultations, however we are interested to know what you think more broadly about the plans to decarbonise industry in the North West.
How will the sessions run?
There will be four focus groups in total:
- X2 Community
- Business
- Young people
All sessions will be held online to enable a broad range of people to get involved. Each session will run for 90 minutes and will be structured as follows:
- Introductions
- Information share to include:
- What's happening across the North West?
- What's happening in your area?
- Buzzwords - what do the following phrases mean to you?
- Climate emergency
- Net zero
- Low carbon economy
- Green jobs
- Industrial decarbonisation
- What benefits can you see from the projects proposed across the region?
- What are your key concerns about the things happening in your community?
- What could be done to alleviate those concerns?
- What concrete actions could be taken from here?
Would you like to get involved?
If you’ve read this outline and would like to take part please reply to the NWdecarb@social.co.uk
After the closing date we’ll take a look at the expressions of interest and select attendees, ensuring that we have representation from across the community.
If you’re selected, we’ll let you know and get invites out to you as soon as possible. If you’re not selected we will share a questionnaire with you to provide an opportunity to share your views.