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Conservation and Ecology Feminism and Democracy

Joined July 2023
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I wrote to my MP about this, encourage you all to do the same and sign the petition. Its madness, if power goes down for any length of time then you wont be able to contact anyone!
Replying to @scottygb
It's a disgrace the Govt. is allowing our copper analogue landlines to be destroyed at times like this! And that's why we must push for a halt to the copper switch-off. It's the most resilient part of the communication network in outages/emergencies! Please sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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#Emissions for the richest 0.1% jumped by more than half as their consumption increased this year
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Big news breaking on this The Welsh Government has called in the data centre application for Cardiff East park and ride Tomorrow’s planning committee meeting is off and the decision has been taken out of the council’s hands.
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We’ve reached a point where a forest needs to justify its existence financially. what a ridiculous way to look at the world
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If the US controls their data centres, then we should control them here too, doubly so. They cant just outsource them and dump them on us.
Today, I introduced the Protecting Our Public Lands from Data Centers Act, a bill dedicated to every Oregonian who called my office and spoke out. This administration wants to sell our public lands to the highest bidder for destructive data centers, but I refuse to stand by. I will keep fighting to protect these lands and keep them in public hands for generations to come.
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Handing control of British water supplies to US hedge funds to make profit from every time we turn on a tap is not ending neoliberalism.
🚨BREAKING The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company. A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground. The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff. This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard. 112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water. A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration. And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way. @andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials. This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises? NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
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And this is on top of The US officer spying for Russia in the UK and all those caught being paid including ex liberal mp to spread propaganda.
DOCUMENTS EXCEPTIONNELS ! Des courriels interceptés par InformNapalm révèlent comment un officier du renseignement militaire russe (GRU) s’est efforcé concrètement de radicaliser les manifestations en France le mois dernier. Un thread ⤵️ 1/13
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"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." — 1984
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The study included data from 309,932 #nuclear workers, of whom 269,487 were men (87%) and 40,445 were women (13%). The average follow-up was 35 years, and the average cumulative radiation dose to red bone marrow was 16.2 mGy. Most deaths from leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma were observed among workers who accumulated less than 5 mGy of dose,” the researchers noted. This study reports a positive association between protracted low dose exposure to ionising radiation and mortality due to some haematological malignancies. Note, this is deaths, not incidence of cancer/leukaemia. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3922…
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The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around. So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms. The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
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Hands up, who trusts Palantir with any of their personal data? I don’t. No one should have to de facto allow private surveillance companies any insight into their lives to access public services like healthcare. It’s time to get #PalantirOut of the British state!
Some MPs make false claims about Palantir, particularly about how we use data. One MP even claimed that we could use NHS data to sell insights to private healthcare providers. That’s flat-out wrong. False. We don’t do it. We never would. We sell software. We don’t sell our customers’ data or reuse it for our own commercial purposes. The NHS holds the information. Our software helps connect its systems so it can make better use of it. The NHS controls how its data is used. We process it on its instructions, with contractual obligations and technical safeguards, including encryption and strict access controls. Those controls apply to our engineers too. More below.
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D.Arbus retweeted
This is not what Democratic voters voted for Getting into bed with Trump and supporting a massive increase in Data Centers and fossil fuel expansion and to muzzle community opposition Spread the word
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Modern groundworks are excessive and destructive..the amount of carbon that gets released from the soil must breach any committment to net zero..the removal of mature trees and hedgerows only to replant with saplings which have a high failure rate, again is nonsensical destruction..so why do they do it? They could achieve the same in a better way, but don't or won't consider changing what they do and hardly any MP is understanding how they could improve an industry which allowed Grenfell and the cladding scandal, building on flood plains etc ..nobody seems to be held accountable to deliver for the climate. Green belt towns and villages will get closer to those sorts of inner London temperatures and not a single mention of this in any local plan or by anyone!! @CHinchliffMP @mhclg @CommunityPlann1 @yosmartie @RuralRoarUK
Travelling in to London today by train. So much of the #Greenbelt is being DESTROYED by new building development. It is so depressing to see. It wounds my soul. @AngelaRayner @andyburnham @10DowningStreet
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#AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite #climate risks, research reveals 181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids. theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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One of my greatest achievements is the space I take up in Dominic Cummings’s head.
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Climate denial from someone who is literally spreading Russian propaganda nitter.gq/thenerve_news/status/2…
If the eco-nuts are so scared of CO2 from cars and planes, why didn’t they hold their stupid conference on Zoom like everyone else?
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Britain’s ‘useful idiots’ boosting Putin's propaganda 500 western commentators – including former Tory MP Matthew Gordon-Banks and former Lib Dem MP Lembit Öpik – were recruited by Kremlin-backed site RRN to take part in its disinformation campaigns Sergei Cristo reports
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Will @andyburnham be Starmer 2.0? Unless he takes back Thames Water, "public control" means absolutely NOTHING Shareholders need zero compensation, slash and refinance the debt, stop ripping off households, no new low standard on sewage lbc.co.uk/article/andy-burnh…
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Sign the petition to stop the privatisation of the British Library. At a time when public spaces are being fenced off for corporate interests, any attempt to privatise the British Library represents an attack on the public's right to accessible, free and communal spaces. vist.ly/5savt
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Unusual to have a good planning decision from this Government but what amazing news! The Norwich to Tilbury recommendation was sent by Planning Inspectors to Government yesterday so we hope for more common sense in that decision! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm8x…
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I like millions of others have turned to the Samaritans in our hour of need. This must not happen. 'Worthing now finds itself at the centre of what is shaping up to be a nationwide battle for the soul of one of the UK’s best-known charities' theguardian.com/society/2026…
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