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Yorkshire Water was fined £1.6m for sewage spills

Heather Trudeau
Bradford Beck, Efficiency & Environment, Environment Agency, fine, fish, pumps, sewage pollution, sewage spills, UK, wildlife, Yorkshire water
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Yorkshire Water was fined £1.6m for sewage spills: Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.6 million for 25 unapproved sewage discharges into a Bradford watercourse. The firm pleaded guilty to the unauthorised sewage spills into Bradford Beck and violations of its environmental permit at Leeds Magistrates Court earlier this July. The court discovered its George Street…
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Baby salmon tracked to keep an eye on climate change

Heather Trudeau
baby salmon, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, Environment Agency, fish, fishery, marine wildlife, ocean, salmon, wildlife
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Baby salmon tracked to keep an eye on climate change The Environment Agency is tagging more than 4,000 salmon and 900 sea trout smolts to acknowledge how climate change is effecting the environment. The fish are tagged and set to be monitored to gauge how and what changes to the environment are shaping the biology…
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New project to grow corals on offshore wind turbines

Heather Trudeau
biodiversity, concrete, coral reef, corals, Efficiency & Environment, Infrastructure, net-zero, oceans, offshore wind, Orsted, ReCoral, Renewable energy, Renewables, steel, Taiwan, Top Stories, wildlife
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New project to grow corals on offshore wind turbines Offshore wind turbines can live with corals happily together! Ørsted has launched a new project to begin growing corals on offshore wind turbine foundations at the Greater Changhua wind farms off the coast of Taiwan. That follows scientific trials to grow juvenile corals on underwater steel…
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Plastic pollution makes climate change worse

Heather Trudeau
animals, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, nature, oceans, Plastic, pollution, waste, wildlife
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Plastic pollution makes climate change worse: It needs to be tackled in unity to save marine life. That’s the belief of a current report from Zoological Society London (ZSL) &  Bangor University, which has found 3 important ways that the both are connected. It says plastic’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions all through its…
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Anglian Water cares for birds with drones

Heather Trudeau
Anglian Water, biodiversity, Environment, Infrastructure, Technology, water company, water supply, wildlife
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Anglian Water cares for birds with drones: Drones may actually turn out to be birds’ guardians despite the fact that they share the same sky. Anglian Water has set up drone technology to safeguard ground-nesting birds from the construction work noise on what is believed to develop into one of the largest water infrastructure projects…
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Lets fight climate change from space

Heather Trudeau
climate change, Efficiency & Environment, Infrastructure, Kennedy Space Center, Low Carbon, Nasa, net-zero, space, Spire, Technology, Top Stories, UK Space Agency, wildlife
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Lets fight climate change from space Three UK-built satellites, which have been specifically designed to help fight climate change and assist in the protection of wildlife are planned to be launched into space today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The UK Space Agency has provided a whopping £15 million to Hampshire and Glasgow-based…
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Wood pellets and rounds

Drax put Canadian forest, wildlife & climate at risk

Heather Trudeau
biodiversity, carbon neutrality, Climate, climate change, Drax, Efficiency & Environment, forestry, Renewable energy, Sustainability, trees, wildlife
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Drax put Canadian forest, wildlife & climate at risk : Climate and forest campaigners worldwide are warning that today’s decision by Drax Group PLC shareholders to approve the company’s acquisition of the Canadian wood pellet producer, Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc, is far from sustainable and represents a highly risky move for Drax, both financially and…
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Wood pellets and rounds

Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders of Pinnacle Pellets

Heather Trudeau
biodiversity, biomass, carbon neutral, climate change, deforestation, Drax, ecological, Efficiency & Environment, UK, wildlife
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Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders of Pinnacle Pellets: New maps show critical primary forests and endangered species habitat in British Columbia overlap with pellet facility wood sourcing across an area equivalent to 1.4 million football pitches    23rd March 2021, London, England and Unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nation Territories (Vancouver, British Columbia) — …
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‘Super plant’ effective for cleaning polluted air

Heather Trudeau
air pollution, car traffic, carbon capture, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, garden, hedge, particulate matter, plant, RHS, Royal Horticultural Society, Top Stories, wildlife
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‘Super plant’ effective for cleaning polluted air: Can a ‘super plant’ hold the key to air pollution in busy roads and pollution hot spots? A super plant named Cotoneaster Franchetii, suggests a new paper by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has proved in traffic hotspots to be at least 20% more effective at soaking up…
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Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation

Heather Trudeau
biomass, carbon, Climate, deforestation, Drax Group, Environment, eu, Europe, Renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability, UK, wildlife, wind power
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Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation : Wood pellet use by Drax Plc in Yorkshire, together with bioenergy demand from other countries in Europe, is driving intensive clearcutting in protected forests in Estonia and Latvia, a new report reveals. Hidden inside a wood pellet: intensive logging impacts in Estonian and Latvian forests,[1] published by…
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