Oh look at that… with impeccable timing, @evanhd.bsky.social appears to be back talking about heat pumps on the BBC!
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Oh look at that… with impeccable timing, @evanhd.bsky.social appears to be back talking about heat pumps on the BBC!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.
Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.
It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.
Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:
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Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
09.03.2026 09:34 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.
A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
08.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 2220 🔁 1054 💬 84 📌 292
Full story below with @guardianheather.bsky.social @pippacrerar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
Despite the click-bait headline, the article points out that we have multiple sources for our gas supplies.
A classic piece of cynical headline writing.
Just got off the phone after Sec of State of Energy, Ed Milliband, called to discuss in detail the problems people are facing with home energy bills & heating oil. Here's what I fed through. YOUR feedback would be useful...
07.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 186 🔁 45 💬 50 📌 5
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
“We want to do for economic planning what Google maps did for traffic planning, so we can give anybody who has an economic question an intelligent and useful answer.”
14.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet.
It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.
WH official: “We want to seize all the oil from Iran. The long-term benefit is getting massive oil reserves out of the hands of terrorists.”
07.03.2026 15:33 — 👍 1297 🔁 604 💬 274 📌 294
He made 9 spoken contributions in the House. "I have now decided, having proudly served as a peer for 30 years, that the time is right for me to retire and resign my membership of the Conservative Party."
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The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
07.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 306 🔁 106 💬 15 📌 5
As the Americans land B1 bombers at RAF Fairford, President Trump is promising a relentless assault. We are being drawn into an offensive war. The PM must spell out to Parliament what constitutes a “defensive” operation and the limits on the use of our bases.
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Oil and gas prices are set on international markets beyond UK control
North Sea is not credible solution:
❌ output too small to make any difference
❌ will decline irrespective of new licences
Renewable generation and net zero tech 🔑 to bring energy independence
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"The UK is one of the least food self-sufficient countries in Europe. Prof Tim Lang: 'We're not thinking about this enough. We're ducking it.'"
07.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
Baroness Sheehan raised a stark warning from the repressed national security assessment: nature loss could leave UK GDP 12% lower by 2030.
Read the exchange:
hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-0...
Households on heating oil already grappling with soaring prices
Iranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain.
@PA_Consumer
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How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad
06.03.2026 07:02 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Hardworking taxpayers fund our armed forces.
Meanwhile influencers like Isabel Oakeshott live overseas, contribute nothing, and still benefit from the protection of the UK.
If she's going to pick a fight with @calummillerld.bsky.social, she should at least get her facts right.
A new defence technology company bringing Ukrainian battlefield-tested autonomous systems to allied militaries has launched globally with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uforce-launc...
Announcing our next speaker for the Accelerating Local Climate Action Conference! 🌍✨
Victoria Marsom, Interim Director of Communities & Networks at @friends-earth.bsky.social , will be speaking on 18 March. 🎤
She played a key role in the successful campaign against the Whitehaven Coal Mine. 💚
The big tech companies need to be paying their fair share of taxes so we can properly fund mental health services.
05.03.2026 19:00 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The next few weeks is going to see an avalanche of calls for the Treasury to do what it should have done long ago and move policy costs off electricity bills and into general taxation. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
05.03.2026 18:55 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The United States joined Russia, China, and Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat to nuclear safety, - Reuters
05.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 230 🔁 103 💬 29 📌 15
🧵 Retired U.S. general Keith Kellogg says the U.S. could target Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf.
The island sits about 18 miles off Iran’s coast and handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports.
South East Water has been warned repeatedly by regulators, over a period of 4 years, that it was at risk of supply failure & needed to act to protect water resources in order to keep the taps on.
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