Strategic communications for brands and agencies. Former journalist and PR agency owner. Chalkstream defender @gaywoodriver Paints a bit. North West Norfolk.
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Absolutely disgusting. They are literally taking the p#ss with this.
Thames Water's finance director given a £1,000,000 signing on bonus.
Water industry depravity hits an all time low. Their contempt for customers and the environment clearly knows no bounds.
When are govt going to intervene and put a stop to this? @andyburnham @angelaeagle
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Beautiful. A chalk stream as it should be.
The Babingley rapids 🛶 Winter V Summer drought 🤔if only there was a way to save fresh water during the winter from just flowing off into the sea @AnglianWater Perhaps you should have built some reservoirs 🤷♂️
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Not a surprise: The sewage-filled chalk stream where pollution is 100 times above target facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=…
Mark Dye retweeted
The landmark Hillsborough Law legislation has now been passed by MPs in the House of Commons.
We would like to reaffirm our enormous admiration, respect and appreciation for all those who have campaigned for the introduction of the Hillsborough Law. The 97, their families and survivors are forever in our thoughts.
🔗 lfc.tv/3TgJEr2
Mark Dye retweeted
Big companies have an army of lobbyists to represent their interests to politicians, so why can’t every river have lobbyists too?
I’m at City Hall today to speak on behalf of the River Roding & put forward the river’s rights & interests to the Deputy Mayor of London for the Environment.
I’m also here to explain why grassroots local river guardians are vital to delivering the Mayor’s promises on clean & healthy rivers. With our detailed local knowledge & boundless energy to care for the rivers we love, river guardians can achieve more than government agencies or big river charities if they are given just a small amount of political & regulatory support & funding.
Wish me luck!
Mark Dye retweeted
The @EnvAgencyAnglia has the power to revoke/restrict abstraction from boreholes/rivers during periods of drought🤔West Norfolk is suffering severe DROUGHT 🤷♂️ Is a bag of 🥔 really worth more than a RARE #ChalkStream
@EnvAgency your job is to protect the environment
Mark Dye retweeted
“During our best times was there a better left-back in world football? I don’t think so. When you look at what Robbo cost and what he’s given Liverpool, pound for pound, he has to be one of the best transfers in the club’s history.”
(Free to read)
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So upsetting. Not really a small localised problem is it…
A few of the creatures I no longer find in the Gaywood River Water Scorpion😍Stoneflies😍Bullheads (Miller’s Thumb)😍+I can’t remember the last time I actually caught a Mayfly☹️These iconic Chalk stream species need unpolluted water🧐I do catch loads of Brown Algae scum 🤮
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Further proof, as if it were needed, of a river in decline.
On Saturday, we carried out #RiverFly tests to ascertain the health of the #GaywoodRiver as it flows through #DerbyFen, a SSSI. What we discovered was troubling… #chalkstreams #rivers #KingsLynn #westnorfolk
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Mark Dye retweeted
#ChalkStreams @EmmaforWycombe @DefraGovUK Approximately 220 Rare Chalk streams in England but only 11 have partial protection through SSSI classification🧐@UKLabour if you really care about the environment then everyone should be protected 🙏The River Babingley Norfolk 😍
Mark Dye retweeted
"Fish farms and pollution in Scotland."
Meanwhile in that idilic paradise north of the border.....
Atlantic salmon are on the brink of extinction yet salmon farms in Scotland are still allowed to dump the equivalent of 2.5 million people sh*tting directly into the sea, all of it untreated.
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Mark Dye retweeted
And there you have it folks, as we’ve said, this is not a “small localised problem”, but multi-year evidence of a river in decline. #gaywoodriver
Derby Fen June 2022😍clean gravel & zero signs of Algae scum🧐Phosphate levels at 0.11🤔so what’s changed in the last 4 years to destroy the ecologically of the rare #ChalkStream @EnvAgencyAnglia @AnglianWater ? zero signs of any Trout found today 09/05/26 @N_Rivers_Trust
Get involved folks. The whole water industry is an utter shambles and we need urgent change to save our rivers and chalk streams as well as safeguarding our water. #sewagescandal #dirtybusiness
Our petition has now smashed through the 100,000 barrier, 116,000 and still rising but not a peep out of govt, not a word about our debate in parliament just a weedy nonsensical, misleading reply.
We're not having it. Windrush Against Sewage #DirtyBusiness has written to the Secretary of State demanding we be allowed a right to reply, to be allowed a rebuttal especially since "Government's response started with two big lies".
More below. 👇👇👇
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Hard to believe a retired scientist believes that thousands of litres of sewage pouring into a river during the past decade would be just a “small localised problem”… Utterly baffling in fact.
#chalkstreams #gaywoodriver
Retired biologist suggests chronic pollution from sewage treatment works is “small localised problem” which has little effect on river's health.
Citizen scientists say, "Anecdote cannot outweigh data.” lynnnews.co.uk/news/water-qu… #chalkstreams #gaywoodriver #rivers @WindrushWasp
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The man makes a good point. Indefensible. #sewagescandal
"Southern Water admits sewage pollution which occurred weeks after record fine."
In 2021 Southern Water was fined £90,000,000 for illegally dumping sewage into the environment on almost 7,000 separate occasions.
They have now also admitted that for the following 2 years they kept on illegally dumping sewage into Swalecliffe Brook in Whitstable and Faversham Creek causing fish kills and widespread devastation.
Can someone explain to me why the CEO and directors aren't going to jail for this?
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I encourage you to get onboard and sign this.
I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.
Do your thing internet.
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Mark Dye retweeted
OMG I’d heard it was added to drinking water but didn’t realise it would be this high 😱maxed out my Low range tester but ironically got 2.5 using the High range tester 🤔@AnglianWater what’s the safe level ? Followers🙏let me know how much Phosphate is in your tap water
Mark Dye retweeted
🤔Biggest polluter,Biggest Fish kill, Biggest manipulator of Storm flow figures,Biggest discharge of💩into Sea/Rivers,Biggest bill increase,Biggest CEO bonus🧐there’s countless categories & I wouldn’t be prepared to sit through 24 hours of awards @WaterUK #SewageScandal
I do love a good comedy evening. Seems to be missing awards for ‘Best Polluter in a leading role’ and ‘Best CSO data editing’ though… @RussellB1ggs
Mark Dye retweeted
The Gaywood River☹️classified as being in Good ecological condition by @EnvAgencyAnglia 🤔plants & riverbed coated in Brown Algae scum due to high Phosphate levels @AnglianWater if you really care about #ChalkStreams then install a Phosphate stripper @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust
Mark Dye retweeted
What the man said. And as with our recent walk throughs and testing, zero signs of the brown trout we used to see at points on this walk…
The Gaywood River☹️classified as being in Good ecological condition by @EnvAgencyAnglia 🤔plants & riverbed coated in Brown Algae scum due to high Phosphate levels @AnglianWater if you really care about #ChalkStreams then install a Phosphate stripper @GaywoodRiver @N_Rivers_Trust