Rural researcher: landscapes and land use, tourism, rivers, intensive livestock farming, chickens.
Ludlow
Joined February 2011
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Busy River Teme at Ludlow as I collected water samples for @sascampaigns @WATERSHED_i @AlistairBoxall #swimmingriversstudy2024
How clean are inland bathing waters?
@RiverActionUK @severnrivers
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I did ask what the @NFUtweets advised farmers to do about the vast amounts of waste from 25m chickens which heavily pollutes the once beautiful #River #Wye.
They had ideas about dealing with it . I'm sure @EllieChowns a local MP, will be interested to hear those ideas!
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The Lough is encircled by a ring of intensive poultry farms & anaerobic digesters. That's a lot of chicken poop releasing a lot of phosphates to feed a lot of algae to suffocate a lot of wildlife.
bit.ly/3RMaBiP
Exact same disaster in Lough Neagh catchtment. Emissions from chicken factories have never been cumulatiively assessed.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Legal action vindicated!
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: ⬇️
A judge has ruled that farming practices will have to change in response to a legal challenge by @RiverActionUK over the @EnvAgency's alleged failure to enforce regulations to protect the River Wye from pollution. 1/3 🧵
👉 bit.ly/RiverWyeLegalAction
More solutions like this please.
I'll have to dig out this graph every time someone says dirty rivers are all the water companies fault. In this part of the country - Wye and Severn there are vastly more chickens than people.
Industrial chicken farmers, Avara, produce 160k tonnes of manure annually in the Wye catchment - over 10x more than the Wye population's sewage. Join the claim to hold Avara accountable for the damage to the rivers. Find out more: leighday.co.uk/our-services/…
#riverwye #savethewye
Alison Caffyn retweeted
"Farmers union objects to new bathing water designations."
Oh, now that is interesting. The @NFUtweets objected to every application for bathing water, care to explain NFU?
Guardians of the countryside?
Great bit of reporting by @ShoshaAdie 👏👏👏
endsreport.com/article/18725…
Really useful report mapping UK factory farm hotspots. And great set of recommendations.
River Pollution: 10 factory farm corporations produce more excrement than the UK’s 10 largest cities.
Find more here ➡️ buff.ly/49UG4Wd
Ooooh - now we're talking.
A legal claim potentially worth hundreds of millions to compensate thousands of people for pollution in the River Wye and its tributaries has been extended to include US multi national food producer Cargill Plc. The claim is lead by @ollyholland ow.ly/5Kwi50RuAtQ
ALT Wye valley image
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Farm waste is often used as fertiliser but can wash into rivers and cause pollution
A new report by @UKSustain and @friends_earth shows that top intensive meat and dairy firms are producing over 2,800 double-decker busloads of waste a day – but not all gets disposed correctly
ALT Other breaches include: Dirty water escaping from drainage systems A carcass bin full of dead birds being left to leak out “white liquid” Hundreds of chickens and pigs being illegally overstocked Keeping no records of farm waste and dirty water transfers
So pleased people looking into the air pollution impacts from intensive poultry, as well as river pollution. 👏
US-style chicken ‘mega-farms’ run by firms that supply meat to McDonald’s, Nando’s, Tesco and M&S are causing surges in emissions of a potentially deadly gas
My investigation with @TBIJ @andrew_wasley
inews.co.uk/news/us-style-ch…
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The results of lax regulation for the last decade or so.
Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers theguardian.com/environment/…
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One for all those who say reducing emissions is too expensive theguardian.com/environment/…
Yep.
Why not spend some of funding on supporting some farmers to transition OUT of chickens, not lock in to industrial farming model with questionable incinerators and AD.
Spot on.
STATEMENT: River Action’s Founder and Chair, @watsonchas, responds to the Wye Action Plan announced today by the Government. #SaveTheWye
➡️riveractionuk.com/statement-…
