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And here's the real challenge for the big environment charities. They got played by govt during the passage of the Planning Act, played by govt during the Cunliffe Review and now they're going to get played again by the Water Bill or are they for the first time going to be prepared to stand up for themselves? 🤔

Pesticides have no effect on health, I keep hearing, but their effects upon the health of our countryside are laid bare for all to see.

Why campaigners want a referendum on water ownership After years of sewage scandals and complaints about water companies, there are calls for the industry in England and Wales to be re-nationalised. 📩Read our latest newsletter here: channel4news.substack.com/p/why-campaign…

so @UKGCA Groceries Code Adjudicator moves from @biztradegovuk to inside @DefraGovUK - poss useful & says retains its independence.- vita to be able to enforce strong fair dealing codes incl on cost price increase requests & not subject to big food lobby gov.uk/government/new…

One in five trees planted using taxpayer funding died due to drought last year, leaving the UK even further away from meeting its legally-binding tree cover targets trib.al/msWDjfl

An anonymous US official has told Reuters that an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran, corroborating earlier Iranian state media reports. ➡️ Follow live updates: trib.al/qJRjZbq

Topsoil isn’t just dirt. It’s the thin, fragile layer that feeds 8 billion people. Lose it, and yields fall, prices rise, and food security weakens. It takes centuries to form and minutes to destroy. One of the most underappreciated assets in our economy.

The flip side of this, of course, is that developers can use the threat of sky high costs to strong arm cash-strapped local councils into passing crap development for which there are lawful grounds for refusing. A key contributor to this is the ludicrous costs charged by barristers and solicitors in the UK. I don’t think we talk enough about how the bankruptcy level of costs to have almost any legal dispute determined by a fair & impartial court is undermining democracy & the rule of law in this country.

Fascinating discovery that blows a giant hole in the "we can genetically engineer drought-resistant plants" claim. Water, soil, plants are a complex, integrated system @GMWatch @Beyond_GM #PlanetaryBoundaries phys.org/news/2026-03-c…

"The promise to open up the Land Registry would bring to an end a 1000 yrs of secrecy shrouding who owns England, & enable scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside." [1% of the population own half of England]" theguardian.com/environment/20…

"It was that collusion between regulator and water industry" Robert Forrester was an Environment Agency whistleblower who is portrayed in Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' #GMB

This is how @networkrail respond to knowing a pair of PROTECTED buzzards are nesting 50m away they sent in the chain again making a hell of a racket- They have full knowledge yet ignore these birds and carry on regardless -absolutely disgusting @ChrisGPackham @NaturalEngland 😡

@RosieP4 @greenbeltnagger @sallydjbarley @NaturalEngland In North Northamptonshire @NaturalEngland just completely passed the buck on their statutory requirements. Saying it was up to the Council to decide if an adverse affect would occur to the Special Protection Area. It’s letting development happen & simply hoping for no impact.

Retweet ❗️ This is a Swift. sometimes they can end up on the ground. This is where they need YOUR help! Swifts arrive back to the UK from April/May to nest. 🪺 (A THREAD)

Ahead of tomorrow's report on sewage releases, we've loaded data on discharges near bathing sites onto our Watershed Pollution Map for you to investigate & make your own assessment of how water companies are doing. Come on in, the water's lovely... share.google/NRIteMxqbvM7o8…

As a proposed oil & gas project looks set to drill directly through a chalk aquifer beneath the Yorkshire Wolds supplying drinking water to 900,000 people, David Eddy asks: Who is protecting our water sources? share.google/0ci0d5M1NXDFvA…

Yet more corruption exposed. In 2024 98%, yes 98% of all serious water company pollution incidents got downgrade by the Environment Agency to minor. Time to end the charade, to call an end to the farce. Time for public ownership.

It is a #DirtyBusiness But this is one of England’s rivers—where, for March, a complete lack of life tells a troubling story. Instead, we found ourselves documenting pollution. I cleared what I could, though the foam at the end may yet be natural. #pollution @CleanIlkley

Many of our declining bird populations rely upon insects too, much is made of predator control for waders but without the same focus on insect availability survival rates continue to decline. The SSSI system is too crude to balance conflicting outcomes.