Busy River Teme at Ludlow as I collected water samples for @sascampaigns @WATERSHED_i @AlistairBoxall #swimmingriversstudy2024
How clean are inland bathing waters?
@RiverActionUK @severnrivers
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Alison Caffyn
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Alison Caffyn
@alisoncaffyn
Rural researcher: landscapes and land use, tourism, rivers, intensive livestock farming, chickens.
Ludlow Katılım Şubat 2011
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I'm helping with a new river bathing water quality testing project this week.
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I did ask what the @NFUtweets advised farmers to do about the vast amounts of waste from 25m chickens which heavily pollutes the once beautiful #River #Wye.
They had ideas about dealing with it . I'm sure @EllieChowns a local MP, will be interested to hear those ideas!
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The Lough is encircled by a ring of intensive poultry farms & anaerobic digesters. That's a lot of chicken poop releasing a lot of phosphates to feed a lot of algae to suffocate a lot of wildlife.
bit.ly/3RMaBiP
James Orr@JamesAOrr
Exact same disaster in Lough Neagh catchtment. Emissions from chicken factories have never been cumulatiively assessed. theguardian.com/environment/ar…
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For change in North Herefordshire, vote Green 💚
That's the message from our conversations with local people all over the constituency - and from @BestForBritain's new tactical voting advice too (GetVoting.org)!
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Legal action vindicated!
RiverActionUK@RiverActionUK
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: ⬇️ A judge has ruled that farming practices will have to change in response to a legal challenge by @RiverActionUK over the @EnvAgency's alleged failure to enforce regulations to protect the River Wye from pollution. 1/3 🧵 👉 bit.ly/RiverWyeLegalA…
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More solutions like this please.
Merry Albright@MerryAlbright
Site of 4 intensive poultry units (by a brook) now transformed into 4 sustainable, bespoke homes. Plus trees, hedges, deep verges, SUDs, orchard, wildlife set asides etc & gardens/veg beds Planning policy needs to be radically rethought to enable more rural brownfield options.
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I'll have to dig out this graph every time someone says dirty rivers are all the water companies fault. In this part of the country - Wye and Severn there are vastly more chickens than people.
Leigh Day@LeighDay_Law
Industrial chicken farmers, Avara, produce 160k tonnes of manure annually in the Wye catchment - over 10x more than the Wye population's sewage. Join the claim to hold Avara accountable for the damage to the rivers. Find out more: leighday.co.uk/our-services/g… #riverwye #savethewye
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Alison Caffyn retweetledi
"Farmers union objects to new bathing water designations."
Oh, now that is interesting. The @NFUtweets objected to every application for bathing water, care to explain NFU?
Guardians of the countryside?
Great bit of reporting by @ShoshaAdie 👏👏👏
endsreport.com/article/187258…
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Really useful report mapping UK factory farm hotspots. And great set of recommendations.
Sustain@UKSustain
River Pollution: 10 factory farm corporations produce more excrement than the UK’s 10 largest cities. Find more here ➡️ buff.ly/49UG4Wd
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Ooooh - now we're talking.
Leigh Day@LeighDay_Law
A legal claim potentially worth hundreds of millions to compensate thousands of people for pollution in the River Wye and its tributaries has been extended to include US multi national food producer Cargill Plc. The claim is lead by @ollyholland ow.ly/5Kwi50RuAtQ
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Farm waste is often used as fertiliser but can wash into rivers and cause pollution
A new report by @UKSustain and @friends_earth shows that top intensive meat and dairy firms are producing over 2,800 double-decker busloads of waste a day – but not all gets disposed correctly
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So pleased people looking into the air pollution impacts from intensive poultry, as well as river pollution. 👏
Lucie Heath@luciemheath
US-style chicken ‘mega-farms’ run by firms that supply meat to McDonald’s, Nando’s, Tesco and M&S are causing surges in emissions of a potentially deadly gas My investigation with @TBIJ @andrew_wasley inews.co.uk/news/us-style-…
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One for all those who say reducing emissions is too expensive theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@MerryAlbright @suepritch @leanahosea @anthea_mcintyre Sounds like a great idea. Citizen science has brought the whole situation to light and needs to play a continuing role to ensure accountability.
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@suepritch @leanahosea @alisoncaffyn @anthea_mcintyre 👍🏼
Weighting the proposed & highlighting ‘inadvertent consequences’ could help.
Setting time frames for quicker actions that create breathing space for longer term change too.
And quantification work & regulation commitments needed.
Lots of missing bits - inc 🏠moratorium.
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Developing a plan to develop a plan - a fine UK government tradition
charles watson@watsonchas
So the long overdue Wye Plan is out Finally full acknowledgment of the role intensive agri has played in trashing the river But one of the main recommendations of the plan is to…create a plan And many actions are vague or “subject to consultation” I fear we have been here before
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Yep.
Why not spend some of funding on supporting some farmers to transition OUT of chickens, not lock in to industrial farming model with questionable incinerators and AD.
Friends of the River Wye@FriendsUpperWye
The plan in brief: ✅ River Buffers ❌ Only covers England, not Wales ❌ No mention of enforcement action against polluters ❌ No plan to reduce livestock numbers ❌ Promotes more AD plants, which could lead to more maize & soil damage
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