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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 10h

Households/charities to pay Sizewell C nuclear tax but big business exempt
Govt "should drop this model of adding charges onto electricity, which is no longer fit-for-purpose & is slowing down the country’s transition to renewables & inflates everyone’s bills”
www.thirdsector.co.uk/exempt-chari...

Exempt charities from nuclear levy on energy bills, government urged

Some charities could see their bills rise up to £2,500 a year

www.thirdsector.co.uk

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 10h

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

www.theguardian.com

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CPRE, the countryside charity @cprecountryside.bsky.social · 1d

A solar farm the size of Heathrow has been approved in Lincolnshire, on some of the UK’s best farmland.

This is industrialisation of our countryside while rooftops, warehouses & car parks sit unused. Rooftop solar alone could deliver over 60% of the UK’s solar target - without covering our fields.

Government approves 'UK's largest' solar farm in Lincolnshire

Developers claim it will power about 300,000 homes - making it larger than any currently built.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard Perryman @richperr501.bsky.social · 1d

“Dropping 67 amendments to the Planning Bill at the eleventh hour isn’t just poor process, it’s legislative chaos. There’s no time for proper scrutiny, no clarity on the cumulative impact, and no confidence this is about good planning rather than political optics."

Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 1d

Hard-hitting quote from RSPB nails it! markavery.info/2025/10/14/r...

Planning Bill amendments #poorprocess #legislativechaos #noclarity #cynical #planningshambles

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d

Rachel Reeves to confirm changes to ‘outdated’ planning system

Changes intended to reduce ‘burdensome bureaucracy’ and make it easier to build windfarms, reservoirs and housing

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'.

Brexit is the biggest self-harm. UK economy hasn't recovered.

Farage, the part-time MP, collects millions from 2nd/3rd jobs, full time MP pay+exps; often missing from the Commons.

Pushes hatred to grab power.

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 2d

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: 69 NHS trusts owe £21.1bn to private companies.

That’s money that should fund doctors, nurses + patient care. Together, we can hold politicians accountable + demand better.

💙 Get involved today: bit.ly/SignEDNHSCha...
📖 Read findings: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 2d

US tech giants are eyeing up the NHS 🤖💰

Our new blog digs into the real price of AI in healthcare... and whether big corporations will end up calling the shots.

🔗 Read more here: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

We won't reduce temps to 1.2C as soon as possible, so this is the death knell for most of the world's stupendous reef communities

Other tipping points will follow - Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets next?

Or maybe AMOC?

All three eventually

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 3d

More drivel from Sizewell C
"The power station will use low-carbon fuel, predominantly sourced from the UK." But there are NO uranium mines in the UK & mining for it & fuel fabrication cannot be described as a low carbon activity in itself!
Plus questions...1/2
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2553523...

Major contracts signed for Sizewell C

Sizewell C has signed contracts for enriched uranium services and nuclear fuel fabrication.

www.eadt.co.uk

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 5d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 6d

Bordering @RSPBMinsmere, Sizewell C is busy destroying the tranquillity & scenic beauty of Suffolk's supposedly protected National Landscape- noise level recorded on apple watch at 90+ decibels. No wonder the UK is one of the world's most nature depleted nations!
#SayNo2SizewellC

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 5d

Just a quick reminder: the public still overwhelmingly supports a publicly funded NHS.

It’s time our politicians remembered that. 💙

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Richard Perryman @richperr501.bsky.social · 5d

"He is a businessperson, and if he has chosen to be a chief executive of at least two companies who have taken steps to reduce carbon emissions and implement energy-efficient innovations, it’s because there is a business case to do so.”

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 5d

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 8d

Leaked video from speech to Tech bosses at JP Morgan Tech Stars event appears to show Chancellor Rachel Reeves boasting of a "good relationship with the developer" as one of the rarest creatures in Britain "some snails on the site that are a protected species or something" could pay the price.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 8d

My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.

Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...

Cover: Audubon

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 7d

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 8d

"The IPCC reports that renewables are now 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 mitigation. Build times for new nuclear are massively longer than for solar and wind and nuclear costs always ramp. Sizewell C new nuclear is...1/2
www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/a-go...

A ‘Golden Age’ of nuclear? | New Civil Engineer

The reason is simple. Nuclear costs are huge and rising and significant delays are the norm. The result is that nuclear power faces the same fundamental

www.newcivilengineer.com

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 8d

💙 NHS staff win a small but important victory!

Swipe to see why SubCos are a problem, how staff fought back + what still needs to happen to keep our NHS fully public.

The fight isn’t over: we need full reversal of outsourcing + strong protections for NHS staff.

🔗 lowdownnhs.info/comment/labo...

Image of Keir Starmer and "Subco plans pushed back: Labour has been forced to step back from its controversial push for NHS subsidairy companies (subcos)."

Graphic of bulletpoints: "Why subcos were a problem: staff were moved out of the NHS often on worse contracts, some subcos proposals were motivated by tax advantages, not improvised services or patient care, risks creating a two-tier workforce."

Image of megaphone and " Some trusts attempted to proceed without proper consutation. In places like Dorset and Newcastle, staff resisted and balloted for strikes! Public and union pressure made it clear: outsourcing is not acceptable."

Image of doctor and "This signals a partial rollback of outsourcing policies and a win for staff and unions who resisted these moves. This is a step forward, but not the finish line. The fight to keep our NHS public and our staff safe continues."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8d

More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare

PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.

Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.

Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Private Equity in Health Care - ACHI

This explainer examines the rise of private equity in healthcare, the financial structures behind private equity transactions, what the evidence shows about the impacts of these transactions on the he...

achi.net

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Richard Perryman @richperr501.bsky.social · 9d

Alexa Culver, a planning lawyer at RSK Wilding, said the government was presiding over a “chaotic slew of destructive new bills, with no strategy, vision, due process, consultation or democratic mandate”.

Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 9d

Chaotic, thoughtless, unsupportable government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 10d

Ohio’s sole national forest could be wiped out as Trump targets land for logging

Over 80% of Wayne national forest classified as suitable for logging, drawing concern from locals

www.theguardian.com

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 10d

No surprise - the North Sea continues to erode the coast in front of the Sizewell C site & now appears to be less than 20 metres from the site boundary where the temporary sea defences are being constructed. Sizewell C - a #climatechange casualty, not a solution
#SayNo2SizewellC

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