Thomas L Muinzer

Reader in Energy Transition Law in UK energy capital Aberdeen. Lecture, write & consult on climate action, energy transition, environment

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Insulating homes and equipping them with heat pumps better for cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfields, analysis shows

https://t.co/USYHB9T08J

[Environmental Politics @Env_Pol]

New brief report!

A caution on climate hope by Joe Blakey & Marc Hudson.

https://t.co/CghZbIvdgr

[Eoin Kelleher @eoinyk]

Ireland could power itself entirely - data centres and all - be completely energy independent, and with low household prices if we had gone all out for wind turbines, especially off shore.

But we'd prefer to remain dependent on expensive imported gas. Again, no vision.

[ClientEarth @ClientEarth]

🙌Win for UK nature🙌

The Bristol River Avon has had its rights formally recognised, in a public signing of the Avon bioregional charter of river rights. 1/3

[Shauna Corr 🌍 @ShaunaReports]

GOLD MINE: Inquiry latest as company argues their project will reduce water pollution levels amid plans to use 44,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explosives which could add to nitrogen pollution of groundwater, that already breaches conservation limits #environment #pollution

[Shauna Corr 🌍 @ShaunaReports]

BREAKING: Northern Ireland Environment Agency pulls water pollution limits set for Dalradian gold mine, telling public inquiry chiefs they got them wrong. Asks (rather angry) PAC carry on regardless.
“How am I supposed to do that?” says lead commissioner.
#WatchBelow

[Thomas L Muinzer @LMuinzer]

Thanks @QUBelfast& @PFDoran for hosting a fab event on my #LoughNeagh book last Thurs.
Thanks to: panellists @LouiseMCullen (@BBCNewsNI),@DevlinMcaliskey &Rebekah McCabe (@InvolveUK);speaker @Jonathan_Rowson;Minister @AndrewMuirNI, for positive engagement
https://t.co/8q5DbdZzCg

[Environmental Politics @Env_Pol]

New article!

Just transitions under pressure: from early visions to new proposals and trajectories in the Global South by Yanis Rihi.

https://t.co/sxQVAnB6PG

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security.
Their findings?
“Apocalyptic.”
UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years.
https://t.co/D2QpfiqhBk

[Belfast News Letter @News_Letter]

Hundreds turn out at Stormont to protest for clean water following a fourth summer of toxic blue-green algae https://t.co/N8LlDxjWEW

[Tommy Greene @Tommy___Greene]

While the focal point for many was (understandably) elsewhere in Belfast today, a few hundred demonstrators turned out at Stormont to protest ongoing inaction over Lough Neagh's recovery

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Climate change is making Ireland increasingly vulnerable to summer drought as higher temperatures draw more moisture from soils and vegetation, new research has found
https://t.co/u51MAEq6mO

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Construction capacity directed towards data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects.

The irrational allocation of resources in the name of the AI arms race.

https://t.co/HCxg4QqMQj

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."

That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.

Really, what is the point?

https://t.co/wEGvMugosA

[Thomas L Muinzer @LMuinzer]

Thoughtful leader article from the Irish News today on ownership and environmental problems ongoing at the UK's largest freshwater lake, #LoughNeagh!

[Belfast Telegraph @BelTel]

"Clean water shouldn’t be green or even orange..."

MLA Gerry Carroll produced a bottle of green water from Lough Neagh in the Assembly chamber today as a challenge to ministers to address the environmental crisis.

Read more from Stormont https://t.co/TnFCcr9YyZ

[The Irish News @irish_news]

The discovery of a 400-year-old will left by an English soldier has raised doubt about the true ownership of Lough Neagh, a new book has claimed.

Dr Thomas Muinzer, a legal academic and author from Northern Ireland, unearthed the will of Sir Arthur Chichester (1563-1625) which was previously thought to have been destroyed in a fire.

Read more: https://t.co/rjjRlj2kl5

[The Irish News @irish_news]

The front page of today’s Irish News.

[Thomas L Muinzer @LMuinzer]

Link to book here:
https://t.co/8q5DbdZ1MI

[Thomas L Muinzer @LMuinzer]

Front-page coverage in @Irish_News today by @AllanPreston of findings in my new book-
“British Lord might not Own Lough Neagh”
https://t.co/RT9yd43HNI

New book here
https://t.co/RT9yd43HNI

Book launch this Thurs, Belfast! Registation:
https://t.co/fzoIRq2QFx

#LoughNeagh