Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini

Former roadie/sound, podcaster and RSA Fellow Council. Now film maker and cat slave, trying to make a difference. No longer using Twitter/X

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

This personal film is a love letter to a dear old friend who has fallen on hard times. It’s also for the people of King's Lynn and West Norfolk who deserve better of the "other" river that runs right through their town. https://t.co/wVhFSGAvga

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@EnvAgency To be generous successive governments have stripped resources from EA, on the other hand the circular door of a nice job at a water company as a reward for not causing trouble can’t be ruled out.

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@EnvAgency In short “it wasn’t us, the big boys made us do it” . Pathetic.

[Gaywood River Revival @GaywoodRiver]

I mean, look at the difference… This is why the #Gaywoodriver needs SSSIs from its spring sources all the way through to Derby Fen and beyond.

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

May we dare to ask just how much of the £54k "maintenance" budget goes on habitat destruction? @Feargal_Sharkey @WATERSHED_i @OSennitt

[Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🦇🦎🦇🦎 @RussellB1ggs]

Is this a Parody account or have you been hacked ? Wildlife making the most of the peaceful environment🤔you have just flailed the river bank destroying the wildflowers Purple Loosestrife Meadowsweet & Hemp Agrimony all gone🤷‍♂️couldn’t this wait until the end of August 🌸🌼🪺?

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@The_WMA Happy ducks? Their habitat has just been mindlessly destroyed by the IDB flail machine, along with any chicks that couldn’t leave the nests.
“Happy“ - what utter tosh.

[Gaywood River Revival @GaywoodRiver]

We remain baffled at how @EnvAgencyAnglia has closed an investigation into the source of oil pollution on the #GaywoodRiver despite evidence to the contrary: https://t.co/eEbv9YGB26
@WATERSHED_i @horton_official @adamvaughan_uk @jaowallace @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@Ofwat “Average and lagging” It seems that achievement and the pursuit of excellence really don’t come into it in this industry

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

One might innocently ask where the sewage outfalls are in relation to the gauging weirs.

[Nick Balmer @07DeMorgan]

@clithers I monitor gauging weirs along our local R Ivel. The readings fluctuate in a way that appears very suspicious at times.
Here is the data for the last couple of days. Why are the flows going up so much on a regular basis each night?
Why do the flows then return to "normal"?

[Nick Balmer @07DeMorgan]

@clithers I monitor gauging weirs along our local R Ivel. The readings fluctuate in a way that appears very suspicious at times.
Here is the data for the last couple of days. Why are the flows going up so much on a regular basis each night?
Why do the flows then return to "normal"?

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

I’d swear that you could watch the weather forecast and hear the valves opening long before the rain arrives!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I'm liking Paul's thinking.

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@07DeMorgan @NicolaCutcher @GeorgeMonbiot @RussellB1ggs Dead right Nick. We have exactly those problems with the IDB asking the only techniques they know which, surprise, surprise, pushes the river to look and behave more and more like a straightened Fenland ditch.
https://t.co/6JeeHDWu29

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@BylinesEast @PeterThurlow With all the attention on our rivers, lakes and sea you’d expect things to be improving. Not a bit of it.
Further mistreatment of this river’s chalk stream ecology in new film “Draining the Gaywood” at https://t.co/YtGBpaEXT8
@RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey #chalkstream

[Gaywood River Revival @GaywoodRiver]

It's a #chalkstream, NOT A DRAIN. @GaywoodRiver calls for the King's Lynn Internal Drainage Board (#KLIDB) to rethink its approach to maintaining the Gaywood River: https://t.co/lPZw66ays1 @Feargal_Sharkey @jaowallace @joe_crowley @RussellB1ggs @jamesowild @adamvaughan_uk

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

Water companies have flooded our rivers and seas with raw sewage for years—and gotten away with it 😡 Join me in demanding @Keir_Starmer and Enviro Minister @SteveReedMP push for criminal prosecutions against offending water companies: https://t.co/qwuQ7Ur54e

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

I've just added my name to a message of peace and solidarity to the people of Southport- to be printed in local press - following the tragic killing of innocent children and subsequent riots. Will you join me? https://t.co/RpH24I2yFC

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Growth has to be sustainable, take into account ecological implications and ensure it benefits the broadest range of constituents. Not just the wealthy.

If in decarbonising the economy we destroy our already depleted ecosystems, we’ve failed.

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

Very pleased to have been involved in this film. Why does the Gaywood get treated so brutally?

[Gaywood River Revival @GaywoodRiver]

Instead, it suggests applying modern thinking and a science-based approach to the management of a rare river of #chalkstream ecology: https://t.co/Ig7Q6RQg2j
@Feargal_Sharkey @BBCLookEast @itvanglia @BBCNorfolk @mrdanwalker @EADT24 @EDP24 @BBCLookEast @TheLynnNews

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@EnvAgencyAnglia Isn’t this a lovely reassurance. A three-part post with picture to announce the great news that EA didn’t find sewage in a sample from the #Deben on this occasion. However it rather implies that it’s a pretty novel occurrence.

[Peter Clitheroe - Slava Ukraini @clithers]

@Feargal_Sharkey @Ofwat @EnvAgency Is it the revolving door? Relatively low pay job at EA with sod all resources for enforcement but keep your nose clean and spend the first half of your career avoiding WC prosecutions. Reward? A cosy job on a very good salary with the WC.
Cynical? Moi? I sincerely hope I’m wrong