Prof Darren Grocke
@GrockeSIBL
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An Aussie stable isotope geochemist investigating environmental systems and pollution, nitrogen isotopes, sewage, seaweed and kelp. Tweets are my own.
Durham, UK
Joined December 2014
Back sampling in the River Mersey Liverpool - river is full of floaters of sewage - never seen it this bad 🙈🤢🤮
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RT @chris_harrod: Job alert! Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @UofGSBOHVM are seeking to appoint a Professor/R…
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RT @WaterPollAppg: With the Water (Special Measures) Bill heading towards the House of Commons there will be lots of opportunities for MPs…
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RT @Jamie_Woodward_: Water industry strategies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution in England @NatureWaterJnl It’…
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If the @EnvAgency @GOVUK @DefraGovUK @NaturalEngland do NOT take this sewage paper seriously and ACT then they’re as bad as the water companies @DrAlexFord @Jamie_Woodward_ @NatureWaterJnl
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@AlexTaylorNews @greenarteries Maybe look at these headlines and see the damage of having less foreign students…
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Cardiff and the University of Kent - who will be next University seeks more job cuts to save £19.5m
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Success finally. Now we just need other water companies to release the data. 😁
In a monumental victory for Save Windermere, United Utilities (UU) has withdrawn their appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal, where they argued that the Information Commissioner (ICO) was wrong in in their decision telling them to release environmental information to the campaign. They have also subsequently released the environmental data they had been fighting to withhold from the public. Save Windermere, as a second respondent in this case, worked tirelessly alongside esteemed barristers Nicholas Ostrowski and Samual Glanville, who provided pro-bono work on this case. Since the decision, United Utilities has communicated readily with the campaign. In addition to releasing the appeal information, they have also provided a significant amount of additional data we had previously requested. We commend this new approach by UU and the leadership decisions that led to this increased transparency about how their activities impact England's largest lake. While we are encouraged by this outcome, we cannot ignore that it took years of persistent campaigning to achieve it, including countless complaints to the ICO, news articles and national media coverage and even the imposition of a special enforcement measure on United Utilities by the ICO – the foundations for which were laid by Save Windermere – making them the first water company in the UK to receive one. We hope United Utilities will continue this newfound commitment to transparency and make strides in collecting more comprehensive data to fully assess their impact on Windermere. Should the need arise, Save Windermere will not hesitate to fight for transparency again. The full statement on this can be found at - big thanks to @JonUngoedThomas at the Observer for covering this story. Now we want to see more from @Keir_Starmer and @SteveReedMP
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RT @theipaper: A water company is releasing sewage into a stream connected to Lake Windermere using a permit that has not been updated in m…
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I only had the pleasure of meeting Stefan twice in person, but I valued his research when I first started out doing palaeontology. RIP - your work will live on.
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This is absolutely shocking. I imagine the excuse from water companies will be the rain and snow melt we've had recently!!!
No wonder our rivers are in such an appalling state. Does anybody care?
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Have arrive at the British Phycological Society winter meeting @UniOfHull @rodney_forster Looking forward to meeting people and presenting our Herbaria study on the Mersey Estuary @GezReid @freyaalldred
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@TeesPix Where are our gritters and ploughs? It’s not like we didn’t know the snow was coming? What are our taxes being used for???
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RT @Feargal_Sharkey: "Clean rivers target is impossible to meet, says water regulator." And in other seasonal news the @EnvAgency have basi…
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Merry Kelpmas to all. Wishing everyone a wracking day 😁🎄😁 @Pippa_J_Moore @hannahsearp @Hes_1 @DanSmale1 @GezReid @rodney_forster @freyaalldred @Juliet_seaweeds
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@Jamie_Woodward_ And they get grants from @Ofwat to renovate and build on. Shouldn’t companies be paying for that themselves out of their profits ? 🙈🙈🙈
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How can this be justified? With all profits they have siphoned off overseas. And the fact that water companies can apply for grants from @Ofwat to improve infrastructure etc is just farcical. As a nation we are being robbed blind, even more so now 😔
UK inflation = 2.6% Water bill increases: Anglian 29% Northumbrian 21% Severn Trent 47% South West 23% Southern Water 53% Thames 35% United Utilities 32% Wessex 21% Yorkshire Water 41% Feeling ripped off?
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