Preserving the Wye for our Children
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Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Freed from the EU Water Framework Directive the Govt pushes back the date to clean up rivers and waterways in England by 36 years from 2027 (EU date) to 2063 (new UK date) bit.ly/3WYPrOP now that’s what I call taking back control!
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Oh you! @stwater CEO deserves every penny of her £3.5M renumeration.
Chances are she has contributed to Gav’s party to keep’em sweet!
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Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Wow.
This is a remarkable piece of work.
90 years of changes in landuse on a tiny corner of England. Extensively researched.
Multiply by thousands and you can understand the collapse of biodiversity and increased flash flooding.
By @outhwaitegeorge
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Gavin, you voted to legalise this, so why are you now complaining? You could have just given the EA the means and the instruction to enforce the law as it stood, which did make the sewage discharge into the worm brook illegal unless it was a major rain event
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Back in 2021 Prof Peter Hammond exposed extensive illegal pollution by privatised water companies. Our government came to the rescue but not of the public and environment but to protect shareholders polluting for profit. @Feargal_Sharkey @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Thames Water has seen their first-half profits soar to half a BILLION pounds - but the company also saw a surge in burst pipes and raw sewage discharges.
Anyone else think their profits should be used to fix water infrastructure?
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
"England and Wales’s broken water system can be fixed – here’s what to do first."
As @Dieter_Helm points out, it's not the legal system that is broken, it's the system of regulation that has collapsed and is failing customers and environment alike.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
River pollution: New phosphate rules hit thousands of planned new homes bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6328…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
This weekend there was a thick line of mussel shells across the length of the huge beach at Seaton Carew. (sorry no pic)
Where are @DefraGovUK & @EnvAgency?
This is a terrible environmental scandal that the govt is keeping under wraps. #ExtinctionRebellion
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Halting the decline of natures by 2030 yet sod the rivers we will carry on discharging sewage into them for a further 28 years and this is classed as world leading, really?
#sewage #environment #pollution #rivers
Let’s set the record straight.
We want a #StrongEconomy and a #StrongEnvironment.
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Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
@Feargal_Sharkey literally nailed it. Absolutely superb superb speech by the no1 river campaigner. Certainly don't think we would be this far if it was not for his exceptional work. Well done.
"What we are witnessing between industry and government is an unprecedented attack on the environment"
Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey makes surprise speech at Labour Party conference and says water companies are "profiteering" while rivers are polluted
bbc.in/3dSt0tr
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Last Friday morning water companies could only dump sewage into the environment during "exceptional situations". What you are seeing below would have been illegal.
Today it's not. Government legalised it exactly 12,960 minutes ago.
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Water firms have made off with £72bn of our money.
@Ofwat confirms WCs have been paid all of the funding needed to fix this and yet government still want to load an extra £12 a year onto customers bills to pay for a service we never received. Scandal.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Lack of enforcement of farming regulations is deregulation via the back door…..
theguardian.com/environment/…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
The scandal of agri pollution
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“In the Wye valley, home to one of Europe’s largest concentrations of intensive livestock production, Lancs Uni found there were 3,000 tonnes of excess phosphorus caused by agriculture seeping into the valley’s waterways”
theguardian.com/environment/… – at South West, England
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Great read on the 2 men whose work can be credited with waking the EA and Ofwat from a deep sleep and forcing an investigation into sewage. And they’re very nice chaps too! @watervole3 @ashsmith43 theguardian.com/environment/…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
Excellent work. These signs need to go up in Tesco metros across cities, where they are particularly unaware of what goes on.
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
#EnoughIsEnough
Tesco sources eggs and chickens from #Wye Valley - largest customer of egg producer Noble Foods & chicken producer Avara Foods.
20 million chickens in Wye catchment area in Intensive Poultry Units (IPUs) and 1,400 factory farming sheds.
riveractionuk.com/news/campa…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
This company thinks it is acceptable to leak ~88m litres of water a day
@SouthernWater are you surprised @FishLegal_ are challenging your reckless bid to take more water from #RiverTest?
@RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
Wye Catchment Conservators retweeted
With continued prolonged dry weather #fish in rivers can become isolated, stranded and ultimately die.
If you see fish that are trapped or in distress please report to our incident hotline ☎️ 0800 80 70 60
Where appropriate action can be taken by #FisheriesOfficers on duty.
