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Posts by Martin Cowgill

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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

“It’s a huge greenwashing exercise by the aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”

Good piece on the myth of 'sustainable aviation fuel', which Keir Starmer's Government is insisting will somehow make expanding Heathrow a climate friendly option

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NEW: It's looking like the Climate and Nature Bill, the private member's bill to set statutory targets on ministers, could be scuppered. It's due for its first Commons vote tomorrow, but it seems that Labour MPs will be whipped to vote against it after talks on a compromise approach didn't work.

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The best anecdote in my book The Liberation Line is that when US railway workers started repairing the railways in France after D-Day, they tried to change to right hand driving but after several derailments they stuck with the existing left. Overreach did not work. Let's hope that is still true

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Could beavers really rescue Norfolk’s threatened chalk streams? Norfolk’s river Glaven is one of our rare chalk streams, and the site of an interesting experiment in environmental restoration.

Could beavers really rescue Norfolk’s threatened chalk streams? eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

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No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’ Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through

Beavers too Tory, says No10.

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No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’ Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through

Stop the flooding! Bring back our furry native friends! Release the beavers!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Challenge accepted!

🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy
I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli
I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology
From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy

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2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion

🔴 2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended

@russincheshire.bsky.social takes a look back at how the 'worst parliament in history' came to its calamitous conclusion...

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY

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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

Let’s join Amsterdam , Sydney , Edinburgh and France in banning fossil fuel advertisements and sponsorships , sign my petition to force a debate in Parliament on the issue .

lovera.ge/ban-ffa

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