SBolwell-Davies

Human Resources Professional, Company Director, horse rider,hockey and tennis player, Cricket fan, wine lover and minature Schnautzer owner!

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Starmer's back out moaning about 'blockers' again. So we're going to help councils to get blocking. There is simply no need to build on an inch of green space... Keep an eye out here for our NEW councillor toolkit, coming very soon! @CommunityPlann1

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firm faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."

Yet more BS from Ofwat, these companies have illegally being dumping sewage they should loose their operating licences, directors should be going to jail.

Govt needs, could and should fire the entire board of Ofwat today.

https://t.co/6CGmzWtLzo

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Council vote of no confidence in South West Water following sewage spills."

Yet another water company that should loose its operating licence. Ofwat?

https://t.co/wPrFfJGwi5

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Swimmers warned to avoid sewage release area."

Southern Water up to their old tricks again I see. Sewage illegally dumped into the sea and people told to say out of the water.

When are govt going to get a grip?

https://t.co/3jNNjEmDwF

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are campaigning against a monster AI data centre that is being proposed to be situated right next to their scenic village.

Just look at the size of this monstrosity. The 61-acre site features six AI data halls rising up to 35 metres high. It dwarfs the neighbouring village of Auchtertool. Imagine living next to this?

The proposed data centre is one of the biggest in the world - bigger than their village. And it’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption. It’s also being situated on beautiful countryside. Fife Council haven’t published an environmental impact report.

The development would sit directly on scenic countryside, build directly over the historic ruins of Halyard's Castle, and threaten the adjacent Auchtertool Linn Wildlife Site. Recent planning portal filings reveal the data centre site would be secured by invisible infra-red lighting and 3-metre fencing topped with trident spikes.

This campaign to stop this AI data centre monstrosity in Fife is now receiving huge amounts of media and social media coverage. For once, people power can defeat tech corporations power if this campaign continues to be amplified.

This is a big issue. Not just for Auchtertool, not just for Fife, not just for Scotland but for the world and we have to make a stand against the huge environmental and energy and water supply risks caused by these AI data centres.

In Ireland data centres energy demand has put unprecedented strain on the grid. A moratorium on new data centre construction was put in place in 2021 due to fears of blackouts which was only eased last year. This energy crisis in Ireland happened with 22% of Ireland’s energy (2025 figures) used by data centres. The energy demands of the Auchtertool hyperscale data centre alone would take Scotland’s data centre energy demand to this level.  

The total demand for energy from data centres in Scotland’s planning system is now 6,200MW and plans for six sites that haven’t reached planning stage yet, which would take the total to over 11,000MW, nearly three times the amount of Scotland’s winter peak demand.

Also, rising energy prices: In the USA, energy prices have soared due to the infrastructure that has had to be built to support the energy demands of hyperscale data centres. Bloomberg has reported that prices soared by up to 267% more in areas with data centres.

It’s time for governments to put the concerns of the public before the profit margins of tech billionaires.

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Photo books of @CommunityPlann1’s day of action delivered to all four opposition parties ✅

I am on the train home after meetings in Parliament with (in alphabetical order):
- Conservatives, Alex Burghart (and also Bernard Jenkin, who is my MP), who Kemi Badenoch sent to collect the photobook;
- Green Party, Adrian Ramsay;
- LibDems, Gideon Amos…well, his staffer, as Amos was double-booked. But Gideon will take a photo with our book;
- Reform, Danny Krueger.

I will post the videos/photos later once I have sorted through them all.

Everybody LOVED all your photos, and it was a powerful way of petitioning and getting messages across. So, well done with your events on the day of action.

We will deal with Labour once we know if there is going to be a Leadership election. We have asked several times for a meeting with Reed/Pennycook.

[Ian Rotherham @IanThewildside]

Restoring ecology one small patch at a time!

Wildflower meadows & pollinator patches.

This is what can be done by one garden - just imagine what we could achieve with say 20 million private gardens in England.

[caroline white @saoirse65]

Not one person believes nests aren’t being destroyed when hedgerows are being removed like this. @EssexWildlife @suffolkwildlife @Natures_Voice @CraigBennett3 @TonyJuniper @NaturalEngland @SuffolkPolice @EssexPoliceUK

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill."

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/4ZyaFy96BX

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Agreed!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[P Lang @nfsway60]

@sisterhaze John Scott East Lothian Wildlife. So sad, llegal to work on trees/hedges in bird nest season, March-July. Probably need to contact both rail companies &local Council, but will be slow response sadly. National Grid guilty of same behaviour in Suffolk @CommunityPlann1

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

@markrwilliamson Yes... In which i raise water shortage fears:

https://t.co/tXsat9iyFJ

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

We wrote (@PylonsEAnglia) to Sir Richard Knighton in April to warn him of the risks in East Anglia due to the way the grid upgrade is being carried out. Huge clusters of key infrastructure and pylons as the technology of choice instead of undergrounding.
https://t.co/wJhTbuOnKS
@BBCr4today

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.

And we tolerate this nonsense.

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

A nice double hedge for you @TrooperSnooks

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Great to see this in Wales

Energy Minister commits to no new pylons through mid Wales

https://t.co/xsKE5ufZif

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Agree with the sentiment entirely

And also, where are they going to ‘remove’ them to?