The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Sal Burtt-Jones
@salburttjones.bsky.social
Founder of business sustainability consultancy 11 TwentyTwo, #bcorp strategy, and ocean activist, Co-founder @SOSWhitstable.bsky.social. Deeply connected to nature, and passionate about saving our rivers, lakes and seas 🌊💙
Merry Christmas! Today Ofwat have approved bill hikes for all water companies, with Southern Water topping the charts at 53% over the next five years. We’ve made it very easy for you to email your MP today to let them know how outrageous this is - campaigns.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk thank you
The Guardian is pushing ahead with its 'sale' of the Observer. But the journalism continues... If you value the Guardian or Observer, I urge you to read this. It's my attempt to investigate 'the money behind the money'. Who is 'buying' us? And why? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Who is 'the money behind the money?'
As the Guardian announces the 'sale' of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, I wave hello to my new bosses (hi!) with an investigation of their finances.
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This Thursday Ofwat will confirm how much our water bills will increase by over the next 5yrs. Southern Water bills are set to rise by 84%… if you think that is a joke, please sign below…
Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis.bsky.social · 2y agoWater bosses want to hike your water bills by an average of 40%. After paying their shareholders £85bn and chronically underinvesting for years. I won't stand for it, and neither should you. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Great turnout for our MP Briefing on the water industry this evening at Portcullis House 💪🏼🆘🌊 and special thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social for coming along to support us too 💚
Ilkley Clean River Group@cleanilkley.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Sewage Campaign network briefs MPs on their responsibility to the public. the disaster of monopoly for profit water industry. stop pollution 4 profit @windrushwasp.bsky.social @savewindermere.bsky.social @soswhitstable.bsky.social @henleymermaids.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social
Clean energy is very cheap. Climate advocates would like to make it more abundant. But who exactly is impeding this, one might ask? www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now...
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.
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Please sign to protect our NHS from even more Private Healthcare contracts" ⏬
We Own It@weownit.org.uk · 2y ago🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal. ⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal. 📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
International talks on curbing plastic pollution fail to reach agreement
International talks on curbing plastic pollution fail to reach agreement
Chair of talks in Busan says progress has been made but ‘a few critical issues’ are unresolved Negotiators have failed to reach agreement on a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution, the diplomat chairing the talks has said. Nearly 200 nations are…
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In truth, every single major piece of legislation ought to be this somberly undertaken, this well attended, this carefully considered, and this passionately, but cordially, argued. If our elected chamber can be what we witnessed today, why can't it all the time?
Please consider signing and sharing this petition to stop the government from using public money to bail out private equity (again). Thank you 💪🏼🙏🏼🌊🆘
SOS Whitstable@soswhitstable.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 #banthebailout 🚨 The Water Bill is about to enter the Commons, and it allows the bail out of water companies by the public. Our good friends @sascampaigns.bsky.social have launched a petition to tell the government that this is unacceptable. Please sign and share! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
We have been told over and over that this is just ‘algae’, does it look like algae to you? 🤔
Andy Taylor@tankertonbirder.bsky.social · 2y ago@soswhitstable.bsky.social Swalecliffe Brook Whitstable Kent this A.M Runs through a SSSI into sea reported this all to common occurrence countless times
🚫 ACCESS DENIED 🚫 The environment sector has a problem with diversity. A 2017 Policy Exchange paper found it is the country's second least diverse profession. Little has changed since. In this podcast special we ask what lies behind the sector's problem with race and what is being done about it ⬇️
ENDS Report@endsreport.com · 2y agoWhy does the environment sector remain one of the least diverse in the country? In this podcast special @jamesxparsons.bsky.social finds out what’s being done to implement change. LISTEN NOW 👉 www.endsreport.com/1896902/ ❌ Access Denied: The environment sector’s problem with race
Huge thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @premnsikka.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social for their relentless work on this bill so far 🙏🏼 As it moves into the Commons, now is the time for public mobilisation 💪🏼 Watch this space…
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SOS Whitstable@soswhitstable.bsky.social · 2y agoA visit to the Lords today to meet with the wonder that is @greenjennyjones.bsky.social, and hear the 3rd reading of the Water (Special Measures) Bill. As the bill now moves to ‘the other place’, we will be campaigning hard for further amendments, esp. banning public bail out of water companies.
Didn’t somebody once say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Let’s end this never ending cycle of public bills bailing out private equity and bring water back into public ownership, now. www.ft.com/content/bc6e...
Thames Water faced with £100mn bill from creditors’ advisers
Fees represent an additional drain on finances of troubled UK utility as customer bills are set to rise
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Tory Govt sewage-dumping South West Water £453m subsidy; £40m a yr since 2013. Company paid over £1.5bn dividends. It has 174 criminal convictions, paid fines of £4.54m. People fleeced - high bills, subsidies. Labour opposes public ownership of water democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
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Wales this weekend – climate collapse happening before our very eyes . We need to get serious . It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads . lovera.ge/ban-ffa 🧵
Matthew Todd@matthewtodd.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
Holy sh*t. If climate breakdown doesn’t already keep you up at night, spend a moment with this gif. Nice work @edhawkins.org
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 2y agoUsing up the carbon budget for 1.5°C
If this post from @premnsikka.bsky.social has shocked you as much as it’s shocked us, please consider signing and sharing our petition calling for public ownership, we are so close to 300,000 signatures - www.change.org/p/return-the... thank you 🙏🏼
Sign the Petition
Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y agoLast night only THREE peers in the House of Lords called for public ownership of England's water industry. That was me, Jenny Jones & Natalie Bennett (Green Party) out of a membership of 827. Public ownership officially opposed by Labour, Tories and LibDems. Most people want to end the scandal.
The brilliant @spoonybear.bsky.social writes about this new place we call home - long may it continue to be a safe space for conversation and connection 🙏🏼🦋
James Kirkham@spoonybear.bsky.social · 2y agoSpoke with Forbes magazine about this place: “..users are gravitating towards spaces that prioritise authentic connections over algorithm-driven outrage, seeking solace in communities that resonate with their values.” www.forbes.com/sites/anisha...
This is great news. Let’s do the water industry next
MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in UK summer riots
Commons inquiry into rise of harmful content on social media also expected to call Meta and TikTok executives
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An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign
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We understand so little of the #biodiversity of the last frontier, the deep sea. We must not destroy it. Say no to #DeepSeaMining phys.org/news/2024-11...
California researchers discover mysterious, gelatinous new sea slug
More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug.
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I hate to think what the history teachers of the future will share about the next four years.
Robert Macfarlane@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 2y agoBreaking: Trump has named Chris Wright, a climate-change-denying, anti-regulation, fossil-fuel executive as Energy Secretary in his new administration. It’s obviously a catastrophic pick for (to name only two victims) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—& the planet. apnews.com/article/trum...
Here is the start of a list of the most amazing U.K. clean river campaigners! Who did i miss? go.bsky.app/Bs811RP
900,000 hrs in 2020, and 3,600,000 in 2023… great to see things are getting so much better 🙄
Rob Windscheffel@robwindscheffel.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s 5 years since we started looking at what’s in our water. www.channel4.com/news/900000-...
The vampire kangaroo strikes again, Southern Water joins Thames in ‘junk’ status www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Southern Water credit rating downgraded to 'junk' by Moody's
The judgement indicates the under-fire utility company is more likely default on its debt.
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