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Call on Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres Sign our petition to call on the Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres. Data centres use huge amounts of energy and water – a recent proposal for a data centr...

People, particularly in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 might like to sign this petition which calls on the Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca... Data centres have a huge demand for electricity and water which must be considered.

Burn, baby burn Carbon capture project greenwashes waste incinerator expansion.

Good article by @simonpirani.bsky.social about a #CCS proposal used to legitimise yet another dirty waste incinerator in Kent: theecologist.org/2026/mar/05/... .

Join The Big Plastic Count The UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste.

The Big Plastic Count is back!

Join the tens of thousands taking part in the UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste to uncover the true scale of the UK’s plastics crisis and to call on the government to do more.

Sign up to count your plastic at tbpc2026.com/ukwin

The Burning Question: How Safe Are Waste Incinerators? Considered one of the greatest environmental risks to health, air pollution is laden with fine particulate matter that causes cardiovascular and respiratory disease, cancers, and substantial mortality...

www.scarabtrust.org.uk/post/the-bur...

OECD to reopen investigation into Drax's misleading statements about biomass energy impacts - Forest Litigation Collaborative Review of the initial investigation found UK officials had influenced OECD findings in favour of Drax The OECD will recommence its review of environmental claims made by Drax, and the UK...

OECD to reopen investigation into Drax’s misleading statements about #biomass energy impacts: forestlitigation.org/press/oecd-t... .

Poland’s excessive reliance on wood pellets caused an energy security crisis Wood pellets made headlines for weeks in Poland this winter. The reason? A combination of a cold winter and excessive government support in past years for ho...

Investigation by @fern.org shows that reliance on wood #biomass made it expensive and difficult for households in Poland to heat their homes during the very recent cold winter: www.fern.org/publications....

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution from the stoves

"straight from the playbook of tobacco" say @mumsforlungs.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

"Straight from the playbook of tobacco".

The Stove Industry Association has been pressuring councils to tone down their public health campaigns, telling them they were exploring options for potential legal action.

This stinks even more than the burning they promote. #WoodBurning #AirPollution

Help us to end new coal mining in England. Take action now The Government has finally listened to us and is recommending that English planners should not be able to approve new coal mines. It is now incredibly important that we back that proposal by showing o...

Please help end new coal mining in England. Take action now. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/help... via @coalactionuk.bsky.social

Tour dates from here: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

Tour dates from here: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

Film tour of 'Fires and Fascism' with director Q&A!

Wildfires, big business, organised crime, and fascism link, and inspiring communities are responding.

Tickets: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

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Communities across the UK are taking action today and tomorrow to #StopDirtyDataCentres. They'll use energy, land + water that should be for people, not big tech.

In Brick Lane, London, they plan to build a new data centre instead of social housing 🤯

Moratorium now!
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Home - Pull The Plug We're here to pull the plug on unregulated and inhumane uses of AI. We want ordinary people to have a real say in how AI is used in our lives.

Tomorrow 28th Feb 12pm March Against The Machines OpenAI Office London (York House, 221 Pentonville Rd, N19U7) pulltheplug.uk/matm-sign-up/
March against people losing jobs to AI, datacentres plastering the countryside & using our electricity, art theft, chatbots replacing friends pulltheplug.uk

Stop Dirty Data Centres Big Tech’s ambition to build more and more energy-hungry data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. Now is the time to act.

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February, communities will come together to take coordinated action, calling for stronger protection of our climate in the face of rapid hyperscale data centre expansion. Join us: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Data Centres Threaten UK Climate Targets Big Tech’s plan to build more hyperscale data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk. Developers’ own figures indicate that emissions from just 10 planned UK data centres will release 2.7 million tonnes of CO² each year, wiping out annual CO² savings from the switch to EVs.

Big Tech’s ambition to build more data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them.

It is estimated that more than 100 data centres are planned across the UK, the largest of which would consume more electricity than double all the households in Wales.

"People are rising up against big tech data centres being built at the expense of people and planet". Photo in black and white of 10 people holding a banner that stays 'STOP DIRTY DATA CENRES'. Global action plan logo.

This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK.

Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

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Film screening at Doncaster’s Savoy Cinema, with director Q&A.

How communities respond to wildfires

Thur 26 Feb
6:30pm
savoydoncaster.uk/SavoyDoncast...

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So no biomass CCUS without deep economic reforms then? Leaving that aside, what 'biomass waste'? Waste that isn't already fully utilised that is?

23-29 march Housing Action Days Global Housing week for the right to housing on a liveable planet

Join the Housing Action Days! #HAD2026

Touristification & aviation go hand in hand, driving the climate & housing crises. Flights fuel #Airbnb, rising rents & displacement, airport expansion locks in inequality & ecological destruction.

Get involved: stay-grounded.org/housing-acti...

Auch interessant: Hausbesitzer in Deutschland haben eine klare Präferenz für die Wärmepumpe. (Als Physiker heize ich meinen Altbau natürlich auch damit.)
Ob wohl manche darunter zunächst auch auf die unsägliche “Habecks Heizhammer” Kampagne hereingefallen sind?
www.wiwo.de/technologie/...

How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

Good news from Kraków, where a ban on domestic burning of wood and coal is estimated to have saved 6,000 lives so far by reducing air pollution: www.theguardian.com/environment/... .

Pls look at our reply above. Relying on bioenergy requires vast amounts of land and vast amounts of water for not all that much energy.

You need vast amounts of land and water to get enough biomass to make any inroads into fossil fuel use. And genuine wastes and residues are all but fully utilised already.

Does the world have low-carbon bioenergy potential from the dedicated use of land? While some studies find no room for the dedicated use of land for bioenergy because of growing food needs, other studies estimate large bioenergy pote…

We don't promote DAC, but the problem with your argument is that photosynthesis is broadly offset by respiration. Ecosystems, incl. soils store vast amounts of carbon, but CO2 is largely recycled. Energy 'generated' by photosynehtsis is ~1% of what solar power captures per ha...

MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts Exclusive: Cross-party group ‘deeply concerned’ power plant may have misled ministers and regulators over source of wood pellets

Great to see MPs continuing to speak out against subsidies for Drax! www.theguardian.com/business/202... #BigBadBiomass #AxeDrax

Even if wood is "sustainably grown", burning it worsens the climate crisis for decades or centuries, as you can read in a letter signed by 800 scientist: www.pfpi.net/wp-content/u... . Euope is already losing its forest carbon sink, and BECCS simply moves carbon from the forest somewhere else.

Very helpful guide for responding to a Defra consultation about domestic wood burning, which is a major cause of harmful small particulate air pollution. Deadline 19th March 2026. #WoodBurning #biomass

Have you signed up to join the #CleanAirCrowd yet?

We’re bringing people together across the country to take part in a 7-day #AirPollution challenge, from Sat 28th Feb to Fri 6th March.

With one daily action, it couldn't be easier to get involved! Sign up here: bit.ly/clean-air-cr...

Demonstrators outside the Drax power plant in Yorkshire oppose the burning of wood pellets in August 2024. (Reclaim the Power)

Activists are racking up wins against a false climate solution. Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests. @wagingnonviolence.org read more here: wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/acti...

‼️ Nein zum MEGA-HOLZKRAFTWERK in Stade: Jetzt unterschreiben! ✏️
✊🏼 Protestiere mit uns! 💚
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📢 Good news: Airbus springt schonmal als Großkunde für das Kraftwerk ab! 🎉 Mehr davon!
#Holz #Kraftwerk #Waldschutz #Energie #SystemChangeNotClimateChange #Onlineprotest

Very bad and disappointing news if true: