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Refuse more time for Lancashire frack site – planners recommend Officials in Lancashire are recommending refusal of a bid to extend the life of the mothballed Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool.

[Cuadrilla said needed another year for groundwater monitoring to surrender an environmental permit + extra time to restore to pasture. This is 2nd try for extension. If county council votes against extension, it would be 1st refusal for Preston New Road in a decade.] drillordrop.com/2025/11/26/r...

💚 Very sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. Her work and life’s mission championed conservation and the protection of our planet, and deepened our understanding of the natural world.

🌿 “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

"@teamlabouruk.bsky.social will BAN fracking" sounds fab; reality though will be in the detail (along with the devil). Meanwhile please let Ed Miliband know we want an actual all-encompassing BAN. No loopholes/wriggle room/get-out-clauses. Please sign: @friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 foe.uk/ksojs

United Utilities underspent £52m on vital work to reduce sewage pollution, FoI reveals Privatised water company criticised over efforts to connect private septic tanks to mains and cut pollution

Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution.

Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years.

UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation

Can't trust water companies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🌍 Wonderful to see ‘Letters from the Global South’ at Ealing Climate Week. Don’t miss out—it's on until Saturday 28 September!

📍 Southall Library and Dominion Centre, Ealing

🗓️ To find out how to book the exhibition head to: lettersfromtheglobalsouth.org

🌳 #CANBill

Thoughts on politics right now...

TUC Congress votes to support Zane’s Law The Law aims to improve public safety relating to contaminated land in the UK, under greater risk because of increased flooding events.

Such an important campaign; this grieving family has spent 11 years fighting for the truth, not only to obtain justice for Zane - but for truth that will protect all of us. #CleanAir #Landfill #TruthAboutZane #ZanesLaw
*Thank you @tuc.org.uk & @fbunational.bsky.social
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No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres

Did you spot it?

This government wants to use a PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP for Neighbourhood Health Centres in its 10 year NHS plan

*Even though Private Finance Initiatives mean the NHS paying up to 27 x over for hospitals*

Take 1 minute to say no weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

Fracking splits in Reform The controversial issue of fracking in Lancashire has divided Reform politicians in the county from their national leadership.

[..deeply concerning to imagine return to hugely damaging past. Residents/local workers/police/activists – all forced into situation of government’s making. 2019 moratorium stopped fracking & makes clear it can't resume unless proven safe; industry just can’t do that] drillordrop.com/2025/09/03/f...

That which divides us... doesn't always win:

Endangered – the remarkable water vole is making a comeback Predation, pollution, climate change and habitat loss made Kenneth Grahame's Ratty one of the UK's most endangered species. But wildlife trusts are on the case

From riverside holes to underground 'central heating'?

Water voles build burrows with composting chambers that generate warmth in winter.

Nature’s little engineers!

Kate Moore reports🔥🌱
#WaterVoleFacts

"What's on your mind?" Facebook prompt, prompts. I search mine & find the unbearable...
-Images of starving children/war ravaged places
-Sounds of bombing/shooting/weeping/mourning/raging/begging/pleading to a god or anyone, to end man's inhumanity
-Feelings of helplessness/hopelessness/impotence

A society that doesn’t value life, care for those in need, regards healthcare as a luxury not a necessity, will ultimately not value the care givers, the providers & cut them

It will see life expectancy fall, distain for the poor & sick, value placed in material things instead

And, finally, a message of hope and encouragement from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Ploughing & draining the Fens of Cambridgeshire creating an ‘illusion of food security’, says @tonyjuniper.bsky.social at Moor Meadows conference in Chagford, Devon - because the fertile peat soils are being lost & causing huge carbon emissions

No, sheep are not firefighters.

Nor do you ‘fight fire with fire’

You fight fire with *water*.

Re-wet our upland peat bogs - which have been badly damaged by burning, drainage & overgrazing - converting them to fire-prone monocultures of heather (north England) & molinia (Dartmoor, Bodmin)

For me, the right to protest... is the right to fulfil my obligations. I saw harms, engaged with protest and so became 'Activist' ...because trusting governments/industries/regulatory bodies etc. with the future, is clearly not an effective solution.

Yup. This list is why it’s very annoying when people say “Why didn’t Americans protest?” Most major US protests happened in the last decade! They resulted in almost no policy change because officials failed the people over and over. But the people did their part and made their dissent known.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Thames Water: Britain's biggest utility just got captured by toxic private credit markets No rescue. No reform. Just control - seized through debt. That's the state of Thames Water, as Waterways Protection writes

Thames Water is now controlled by two US credit powerhouses: Silver Point Capital and Elliott Management.

Their game - asset stripping, profiteering, slick PR, devour; to get high returns.

Govt can put an end by bringing water into public ownership, but refuses. People's misery to deepen.

Bonkers for Badenoch to argue that the windfall tax is an unfair burden on fossil fuel firms.

Shell literally paid NEGATIVE tax in the UK last year – receiving £12.4 million from the government.

Agree @elliechowns.bsky.social but would also add that it's said/known etc that Israel too is a nuclear threat... Who gets to stop who in this situation?

Village agrees next phase of fight against fracking plan Villagers in North Yorkshire have agreed to spend more money in their campaign against gas drilling and a form of fracking at Burniston, near Scarborough.

Villagers in North Yorkshire have agreed to spend more money in their campaign against gas drilling and a form of fracking at Burniston, near Scarborough.

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‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert!

"The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYISTS 🚨
HAVE DEEPLY CAPTURED UK GOVT

WATCH: how the FF industry uses Carbon Capture to much more effectively capture politicians than capture emissions

❓ Worried about this - you should be - write to your MP 👉
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See full film👇

The £264 billion Carbon Capture Bill: Why your energy costs will soar | Fuel Poverty Action Dr Andrew Boswell writes on Carbon Capture and Storage for FPA. Money would be better spent on renewables and insulating homes, he explains.

The govt is ignoring scientists' warnings about carbon capture.

Take action now:
👉Join the #ScrapCarbonCapture webinar on Weds: eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-a-solu...
👉Write to your MP: action.zerohour.uk/carboncapture
👉Read Dr Andrew Boswell's guest blog:
www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/the-264-bill...

We aren't in agreement

[Rainforest once covered large areas of Wales, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, western Scotland, northwest & southwest England.. destroyed over thousands of years by logging for timber, clearance for farming & development.. isolated fragments remain..]

The huge sums energy firms get to NOT provide power Could the government's radical plan to change the way the UK distributes electricity really bring down bills - or just lead to a postcode lottery?

Wonders of UK energy privatisation.

Not enough capacity to carry/store electricity.

On windy days, govt pays wind farms NOT to produce electricity. £500m this year, £8bn a yr by 2030.

Elsewhere companies are paid vast sums for emergency production.

Companies get ssubsidies, we get higher bills.

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

Which makes government’s refusal to even consider it all the more reckless @weownit.org.uk👇