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[Swim-in-the-Tyne #river_aware #swimwildandfree @SwimTyne]

Does anyone know who is acting as the ‘responsible person’ for the Tyne River catchment?
@N_landCouncil #ClimateCrisis
@EnvAgencyYNE
@NorthumbrianH2O
#river_aware @outdoorswim #catchment
A clue: #WheresWally, there is no one!
Explore who: https://t.co/K80Gu6r3iQ

[Godfrey Kāfir-Goy⚛🌍 @Bliadhnaichean]

@Feargal_Sharkey @brunapper @YorkshireWater Time: #SewageChargeStrike:#ImNotPayingForThisShit💩💷❌ = The ONLY thing Water Customers can do, which WILL make the Companies take notice.
Especially if hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of us do it.
They CAN'T fine/imprison/cut off ALL of us.
#DirtyBusiness💩💰
#DoNotPay

[HorseTown @horsetown18]

@Feargal_Sharkey @YorkshireWater They just put our bill up by 38% because they said our usage had increased. We questioned how that could be when we had been under a hosepipe ban for 6 months of last year. They then told us it was to fund a ‘project’. They have been given a government license to steal.

[colin smith @colinsmith82817]

@Feargal_Sharkey @YorkshireWater

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh here we go again. @YorkshireWater claiming they are "INVESTING" £8.3 billion between 2025 - 2030.

That of course turns out to be completely untrue.

The only money I can see that shareholders are putting into the business is paying back the "loan" they took, by March 2027 and the £100 million they were supposed to pay to help reduce sewage dumping by the end of March 2025.

Every other damned penny of that £8.3 billion, that's £8.2 billion is being funded directly out of bill payers' pockets and not a damned thing to do with shareholders.

Why are water companies allowed to tell such utter lies?

Ofwat?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The gravy train continues.

Failed former CEO of Ofwat, David Black has reappeared at a consultancy company called BRG where he will "Advise firms and investors across regulated industries as they navigate shifting regulatory frameworks".

His boss? No less than former head of regulation at Thames Water one Colm Gibson.

As @PrivateEyeNews would say "Trebles all round". Well actually that's exactly what they did say. 👇👇👇

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey.

It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left.

Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season.

They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues.

This is a horrific disregard for nature.

(This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Thread! 🧵

Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends.

#TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news.

Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals.

Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

This is a picture of Tony Blair and his son , who as it turns out just happens to have a company that will be paid £ 100 billion to develop and monitor .....DIGITAL I.Ds !! Another bonus for Blair himself is that he holds £ 375 million worth in shares in that company ! No wonder that digital ID is being pushed on us !

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

MPs are blaming regulator OfCom for the disaster at Royal Mail.

This is a red herring. Ofcom can’t fix Royal Mail.

To fix Royal Mail, let’s take it into public ownership and run it in the interest of households, not the profits of a Czech Billionaire.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Industrial strategy?

Govt to nationalise British Steel, but not other steel companies.

Won't nationalise water, energy, mail, other essentials.

Rail passenger services continue to be nationalised; lucrative freight & rolling stock companies won't be.
https://t.co/QzRrnCA9uD

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Good news, we need to see the same in England & Wales

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

image source:eia

[Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי @AviKaner]

@yanisvaroufakis @AmrAdelFahmy You are wrong. It is not about the Mediterranean. It is about a military blockade on Gaza, which is governed by a terror group. Tons of aid enters Gaza every single day, after they are checked.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“The whole point of Justice in this country is you be judged by twelve of your fellow citizens. If it’s a judge that changes everything. Judges are not reflective of the population. 90% of them are white, 65% are men, by definition they’ve had a university education – that would be justice decided by a certain sector of society”

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Labour should act on this, properly enforce licence conditions, squeeze these foreign owned entities until the pips squeak - they're polluting our country and enriching themselves - in the worst example of what privatisation has to offer.

We don’t have to accept this status quo.

https://t.co/MwiRrkOiZK

[Diane Soye @disoye]

It's Bamford that's taking the government benefits!!
He pays crap wages
Won't pay 500 million he owes to HMRC
It's Bamford who's the parasite not the poor who need help.
60% benefits are paid to WORKERS who aren't paid enough by fat cat arseholes like BAMFORD

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Palantir is an “evil” company whose involvement in the NHS is damaging patient trust in the service, senior health workers have told Novara Media.

https://t.co/DqZYpfJU2v

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The horror stories emerging from data centres in the US is seriously out of control.
Keir Starmer’s AI Growth Zones were launched in January 2025, these are the deregulated digital layer of the UK’s 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs.
The UK governments plans for data centres are mostly overseen by US companies who do not give a shit about the human and environmental damage these new polluters are causing.
Data is the new oil.
Reminder. The US and the UK administrations refused to sign up for the EU’s AI Safety Summit last year, JD Vance declaring the EU’s plans as ‘woke regulation’
Watch the video
https://t.co/xCD3g1sboI

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

In December the government gave in to Trump. Their Pharma deal will cost the NHS billions of pounds - and patient lives. Today we’re joining @JustTreatment to launch legal action.

Support us here 👇

https://t.co/9hgedWAPf9