And still an ostrich-like approach is adopted !
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And still an ostrich-like approach is adopted !
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This is what climate change looks like for UK winters.
" I have no idea what the price of other resources will be next year, whether uranium, gas or coal. But the price of wind, and marine I know - where there is a cost of construction, but where the fuel itself is free. This brings a lot of energy security."
Charles Hendry - June 2011 !
"The water companies operate a special filter system in Tegel. The reason is PFAS contamination of the groundwater around the former Tegel Airport, which has been known for some time. There, the fire brigade had used extinguishing foam containing PFAS chemicals for years."
And Heathrow / London ?
Expanding airport capacity without any meaningful reduction in emissions is bad for people and bad for the planet. 2/2
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As Irish Gov plans to lift Dublin Airport's passenger cap, @friends-earth.bsky.social speaks out: "Clean air and a safe climate are legal obligations, not optional extras,” this moves us toward more pollution & away from our climate targets. 1/2
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Wonderful launch of the new West London Regional Park.
Spanning Ealing & Hounslow the new park will improve access to nature for 2 million Londoners - with the River Brent & a 13km walking trail forming its spine.
And his support of Heathrow and Gatwick expansion!
And in other net-zero news, on Tuesday Arup hosted the Heathrow Business Coalition presumably to support a thriving Heathrow and support the government in delivering economic growth, www.heathrow.com/company/abou...
Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England
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Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry
As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead
#DirtyBusiness
#Sewage
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At least, pending more information at Heyford Park, the Environment Agency recommends refusal.
Not forgetting the PFAS from fire-fighting training. At least they have identified some contamination (but not enough sampling to assess how far a plume has spread).
"The scale of the task would be striking: depending on the pathway chosen, it could require diverting an area of land greater than the size of Co Tipperary for growing fuels and offsetting, or new electricity demand equivalent to more than current electricity usage."
I wonder about wildfire risk in a dry part of the country with increased forestry cover in urban areas and skyscrapers made of wood. Must read more of the Mass Timber Insurance Playbook !
Just published in time for the Forest City “come and meet us in your local pub” Q&A sessions: Twenty Questions for Mega-project developers
#ForestCity1 #Development #Cambridge #Cambridgeshire #Suffolk
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Wouldn't be far from home ! Could you see the Marsh Farm sea embankment from the Prison sea wall ?
I'm waiting for the need to remediate the PFAS from historic fire fighting on the old Heyford airbase to be recognised. The concentrations in the stream towards Middleton Stoney topped the English rankings in the 2023 EA survey by quite a margin !
LBA has made a new application to the Council to rewrite the night flight rules and make thousands more night flights. Bad news for local people, air quality and the climate. GALBA will fight this tooth and nail! Find out more and join us on our website: www.galba.uk/our-campaign...
Yes - I'd reckon it is likely to be slowly coming out of the soil and rock. Here's a pic of the "Conceptual Site Model" for Dublin airport.
BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’
It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
At least the Planning Inspectorate have included PFAS in their Heathrow expansion scoping opinion and the Environment Agency have raised it as an issue.
I first came across them when Heathrow devoted a chunk of their runway expansion environmental assessment to PFOS. Then they allocated a big sum in capital programme for "PFOS compliance". Awaiting news of how Environment Agency will permit their discharge to local rivers (?drinking water).
In West London increase in urban hard surfaces have redirected rain to overflow the sewage works while the old Portlane Brook is empty for most of its length until Heathrow adds the flow from the airfield via sewer.
The Planning Inspectorate Scoping Opinion put PFAS on the radar - but unfortunately Hillingdon Council didn't impose proper conditions for digging up the airfield and spreading soil for civil works for the current Easterly Alternation Project.
And Ramsgate probably suffers worse from years of foam carpeting the runways at Manston. twitter.com/syonist/stat...
My London tap water is worse than levels demanded in some countries. And I'm waiting to see if Environment Agency is going to consult on what level of PFAS it will allow Heathrow to discharge into my local rivers.
Subject to consultation ?
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Get writing !
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
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But as demonstrated by Charlotte Bailey, it would take 357,143 portions of chips to fuel a transatlantic Dreamliner with 60 tonnes of neat, unblended SAF.
To see Hannah Bailey’s full working out, check out this article: 2/2
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