Pippa Reece BA (Hons) FLI

Lover & guardian of our natural world. International Green Flag Award Judge.
Fellow of Landscape Institute. Founder of female working group for Mcr City Council

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Europe is swinging from Arctic frosts to near-35°C heat within days. Some parts will warm by ~15°C in a week. Agriculture does not thrive under violent thermal instability. Ecosystems depend on stability, not a whiplash. This is what climate instability looks like in practice.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Now there's a very, very good question.

Thames Water have now admitted that they are not treating (dousing) their sewage for phosphate due to a "supply issue". That by the way has a massive and negative impact on water quality and aquatic life.

Funny they didn't mention any of that until they were called out on it.

How many other WCs I wonder are having supply issues?

[Luke Steele @Lukesteele4]

Community Right to Buy is finally law in England!

This means local communities can have first refusal on land sales - opening the door for restoring nature to boost biodiversity, reduce flooding and create outdoor spaces for everyone to enjoy.
https://t.co/ODID3Icddh

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

.@Feargal_Sharkey is absolutely right: the government is complicit in the damage to our rivers and seas. No more window dressing. It is time for real action.

Give the public a say. Give us a referendum on water ownership. Sign the petition: https://t.co/Z9HiPo3BmL

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Brilliant, brilliant exposé by Alex Thomson @alextomo on @Channel4News last night, blowing the lid of the corrupt, and it is corruption of the @EnvAgency allowing water companies to walk away from criminal charges, jail time, unlimited fines and all for nothing more than a slap on the wrist and some blood money paid to local charities.

It's time to put an end to this nonsense, it's time to hold people to account, it's time to send the fat cats to jail.

https://t.co/ph5PFXUph5

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?"

Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada’s natural beauty is central to our history, our identity, and our way of life — and we’re going to protect it.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We have a responsibility to protect Canada’s extraordinary natural heritage – from our lakes and forests to our mountains and coastlines.

Our new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans — and mobilise new capital for sustained conservation efforts going forward.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Stop placing solar panels on prime farmland.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Massive geopolitical shift in conservation. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney just announced a staggering 3.8 billion dollar strategy to protect 30 percent of the nation's lands and waters by 2030. A monumental step against corporate destruction of the environment.

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

🚨 Oxfordshire firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in their consultative ballots. 71% turnout, 94% YES.

Fire service management refuse to listen, despite clear opposition to closing stations, removing engines and axing jobs.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Rotherham, England replaced 8 miles of mowed grass with wildflowers.

They saved £25,000 in mowing costs a year and bees, butterflies, and birds showed up almost immediately.

You don’t need to wait for your city to act. Start small in your own patch:

🏡 Let your front verge or sidewalk strip go wild this spring

🌻 Toss a few native wildflower seed balls into neglected spots

🌱 Stop mowing one strip and see what shows up

📧 Contact your city government. One email from one person has started initiatives like this before

One person. One small patch. Real habitat.

Your street could be next.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And what a shocking world we live Ian when, as Lord Sikka explains, as members of the pubic we can't trust the regulators.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

The story of modern Manchester is a story of the power of music.

It was the catalyst for the city’s turn-around in the 80s, filling the empty warehouses and bringing back belief.

It’s why it’s so fitting that the UK’s music capital tonight hosts the first @Brits outside London.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

When she was in government, Angela Rayner gave the go-ahead for the Marks and Spencer Art Deco building on Oxford Street, London to be demolished & turned into a characterless rebuild. Elegant buildings like this should be adapted, not destroyed. We are aesthetically regressing.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water's reply to a customer @robJGray82 about sewage spewing into the street. "Hydraulic overload", they say.

That of course translates as we spanked all the money we should have invested in the sewage system, paid it all to shareholders and managers, inflated salaries, bonuses etc and that's why the company is now £20 billion in debt which you'll have to pay for, again.

"Hydraulic overload". Really!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

By the way did I mention that Mandelson's company
Global Counsel lobbies govt on behalf of the water industry.

Think about it, WCs using bill payers money to pay Mandelson to lobby govt acting not in customers best interests but purely and solely the interest of shareholders.

I'll just leave that thought there shall I.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Well, well, well, govt has finally realised that their big crack down on water industry bonuses was a hoax. It's so badly worded it's next to meaningless.

What a waste of time, what a waste of parliamentary process, what a waste of the public's trust. 👇

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"South East Water’s excuses have run dry."

At what point I wonder does govt finally put its hands up. The water industry is in desperate need of reform, restructuring and refinancing, playing around the edges simply isn't going to cut it.

https://t.co/bI9z0ElxZ8

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Wow- it's rained every day for the past 37 days in the UK. But reservoir storage in the East of England is still at around 60% meaning that drought is STILL more than possible for some areas this year despite the relentless rain