Who's polluting our rivers? Live doc by @georgemonbiot @frannyarmstrong @charlottechurch singing. July 14th 7pm. Free to view, no login: rivercide.tv
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4 Aug 2022
Fantastic in-depth article about the legendary "sewage sleuths" @watervole3 & @WindrushWasp today: theguardian.com/environment/…
And here they are telling their horrifying sewage tales in Rivercide, trying not to laugh as @GeorgeMonbiot crashes his canoe👇
21 Oct 2021
The magnificent @frannyarmstrong has been hard at work editing the world's first live investigative documentary, #Rivercide, down to 60 crisp and compelling minutes. You can watch it any time for free at youtu.be/kSPtVkJ_Uxs Here's a glimpse, prangs, filth and all.
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7 Nov 2024
Whilst the scandal of sewage in our rivers gets all the headlines - here’s the hidden poo-nami that urgently needs tackling! 👇
7 Nov 2024
Our Muck Maps for @UKSustain , @ciwf and @friends_earth reveal the spread of chicken and pig muck across the UK and the areas that may be at most risk of nutrient pollution 🗺️💩
We've calculated up to 33,450 tonnes of manure is produced by UK factory farms per day!
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28 Oct 2024
🚨NEW: A recent internal report from Natural Resources Wales reveals that 63% of farms they inspected were breaking environmental regulations.
Bad news for agricultural pollution in Wales.
Here’s the story, including a link to the full report:
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2024/1…
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24 Aug 2024
If you saw Rivercide, you’ll remember Emily’s powerful interview with @GeorgeMonbiot about discovering her beloved River Llynfi polluted - the fish gasping on the surface.
Now @owensheers has rendered this horrifying experience into a poem…
24 Aug 2024
Listen from 31 mins 20 secs to hear @owensheers read his powerful poem about the pollution of the River Llynfi.
It’s in the voice of Emily who was the first to report the disastrous fish kill.
“It’s always a dog walker, isn’t it, who finds a body…”
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00224…
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23 Aug 2024
The masterful @owensheers has written a poem about the pollution of the Llynfi (a tributary of the Wye). It’s in the voice of Emily, who witnessed a major fish kill there in 2020 and featured on @rivercide_live. Listen to The Verb tonight, BBC R4, at 9pm. Recorded @hayfestival
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20 Jun 2024
📢BREAKING: River Wye gets its first bathing status!
Thanks to our challenge with the @GoodLawProject and @RiverActionUK, the @WelshGovernment has reversed their decision to deny bathing status to the Warren at Hay, a bathing place since at least the first OS map in 1888
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11 Apr 2024
Our citizen scientists monitor hundreds of sites throughout the Wye catchment.
For months, one site - Hollywell Dingle - has been topping our leaderboard of shame as the most polluted.
Has the @EnvAgency investigated the source of this pollution?
NO.
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21 Mar 2024
Exciting river protection project happening in Devon. Can anyone help them with the last £££?
21 Mar 2024
5 days to raise the final £££ to buy 12 keystone acres on the River Exe in Devon, England.
£136,255 raised so far, £18,745 to go.
Pls DM or email f@ageofstupid.net if u can help - no donation too small 💰😇🙏
#WorldRewildingDay #naturerecovery #ecologicalcrisis
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15 Mar 2024
This was the extraordinary moment at our Restore the River event when Environment Agency Chair Alan Lovell was challenged by journalist @NicolaCutcher and a desperate audience on when the agency would enforce the law against polluters.
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28 Feb 2024
It was pretty wild chairing this event.
Everyone is clamouring for the @EnvAgency & @NatResWales to enforce the law to protect the river!
Here’s my write-up:
cutcher.co.uk/linklog/2024/0…
27 Feb 2024
If you missed our landmark ‘Restore the River’ event in Monmouth on Friday evening, you can now watch it online.
Illuminating exchanges with Avara Foods, Noble Foods and the Chairs of the Environment Agency & Natural Resources Wales.
youtu.be/4hFL6TK6MXA
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15 Feb 2024
🚨We’ve applied for a stretch of the River Wye, near Hay, to become a designated bathing water.
The Welsh Gov is consulting on the proposal.
Please respond by 19 February to make your views known.
Consultation details: gov.wales/bathing-water-revi…
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17 Jan 2024
📻Here’s the full interview with @NicolaCutcher, whose investigations reveal that the @EnvAgency admits to conducting ZERO inspections of non-permitted free-range egg farms along the Wye.
Such complacency is disgraceful and we look forward to seeing the EA in court next month!👊
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15 Jan 2024
DEFRA seems to be in denial about the Wye egg story in the Observer.
I have to call out this disingenuous statement from an anonymous @EnvAgency spokesperson:
‘permitted farms are subject to regular inspections’
There’s a catch. THREAD 🧵 1/8
deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2024/…
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13 Jan 2024
Bravo @RiverActionUK & @watsonchas for bringing this out into the light!
Major problems with pollution coming from free-range egg farms.
The @EnvAgency & @NatResWales have woefully neglected this. Total regulatory failure.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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13 Dec 2023
🚨DISMAYING UPDATE
@NaturalEngland has informed us that they have merely issued a ‘warning’ in relation to this incident. No prosecution, no fine.
Laws are meaningless without enforcement.
The River Wye is officially ‘declining’: a story of regulatory failure.
3 Jun 2023
A few days ago the River Wye’s status was officially downgraded by @NaturalEngland to being in an unfavourable and declining condition.
Today, an ancient riverside meadow near Whitney on Wye has been ploughed up right up to the banks.
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I am absolutely thrilled to receive the National Angling Awards unsung hero of the year. Huge thanks to the team at @angling_times and @DomGarnett
This is greatly appreciated.
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10 Dec 2023
We were honoured that @BZephaniah performed live on Rivercide and share in the devastation of his tragic early death
10 Dec 2023
Visionary: "thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom"
Me to Benjamin Zephaniah in 2021: could u write a poem about river pollution for mine & @GeorgeMonbiot's live doc @rivercide_live ?
BZ: I could perform River City Blues, which I wrote 25 years ago?
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10 Dec 2023
Visionary: "thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom"
Me to Benjamin Zephaniah in 2021: could u write a poem about river pollution for mine & @GeorgeMonbiot's live doc @rivercide_live ?
BZ: I could perform River City Blues, which I wrote 25 years ago?
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8 Nov 2023
There is consensus here between supermarkets, farmers and environmental groups - we need ‘special measures’ for the Wye!
Why is govt asleep at the wheel? Where is the long-promised ‘Plan for the Wye’ from Secretary of State @theresecoffey ?
8 Nov 2023
• If the river Wye were a school it would be in special measures, according to Tesco, Waitrose and conservationists #CleanItUp
• @CraigBennett3 wrote to Welsh & UK govt on state of Wye. @JulieJamesMS replied, @theresecoffey hasn't
• Still no sign of Coffey's plan for the Wye
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23 Oct 2023
Inside national parks, nature is struggling.
How can it be restored?
Listen to our latest podcast episode with investigative journalist @NicolaCutcher
pod.fo/e/1f90a3
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