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Hmm as @DefraGovUK appears to have hastily deleted this video featuring @theresecoffey hanging at the banks of the dying #riverwye let me describe to you what I saw and why it's a bigger scandal than the wrong type of otter footage. 🧵
In the opening shot our Environment Secretary who has previously blamed wild birds for the state of the water quality in catchments elsewhere, looks sadly but sternly at camera and announces that sadly the river wye is quite fucked, or at least she concedes...
that @NaturalEngland has found a few problems, before seemingly specifying that these are confined to SSSIs (sites of special scientific interest) or similar. Anyone with a passing interest in ecosystem health will likely know that it is much more fucked than that...
🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨
River Action has issued a legal claim in the High Court against the @EnvAgency for failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water on the #RiverWye 👉 bit.ly/3TcTiXw 🧵
River Action has issued a legal claim in the High Court against the @EnvAgency for failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water on the #RiverWye 👉 bit.ly/3TcTiXw 🧵
We claim that the @EnvAgency is complicit in allowing destructive levels of nutrients to leach into the River Wye, which is causing the widespread ecological collapse of one of the UK’s most iconic rivers. 🧵
This is “a sickening tragedy in that this could have been seriously mitigated had the EA enforced existing environmental regulations” @watsonchas. #rescuebritainsrivers
“This is scandalous” @NatResWales sneak out a report which confirms both the link between intensive poultry units and damage to #RiverWye SAC species and the gap in the regulatory regime to address it. A thread explaining all... 🧵⬇️
Over 2 years ago Fish Legal notified @NatResWales that environmental damage was being caused to the River Wye by Intensive Poultry Units in Wales. @NatResWales denied it. No evidence they said, looking at data from 2009 – 2015...
We went to court separately to challenge a planning application for increased poultry production in the Wye catchment. @NatResWales didn’t object to the application...
