Hugo Tagholm
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Executive Director @oceanaUK Former CEO @sascampaigns Columnist @Oceano_mag Fellow @edoceanleaders Alum @uniofexeter | views own |
Cornwall & London
Joined May 2009
However rich you are, you can’t do without a survivable climate, clean water & air.
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That is one big sewage slick at St Agnes! 🤮😡✊ #EndSewagePollution . @CarveMag @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham @sascampaigns @AmySlack_SAS
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Keeping fossil fuels underground is the best ever carbon capture & storage system. We’ll never design better.
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Private water companies were given a clean, debt free slate to start with. The rack up £56 billion in debt. They chronically underinvest. They pollute massively. The extract £72 billion in dividends. Now that they want the tax payers to bail them out. What a scam.
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The sewage scandal grows by the day. Water companies have presided over industrial scale environmental vandalism & taken vast profits since privatisation. I’m at the High Court next week with @GoodLawProject demanding government takes urgent action to #EndSewagePollution
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Leaked figures from a government report show that the actual cost of progressively eliminating the worst & most damaging #sewage 💩 pollution is £3.9 - £62.7billion. Completely affordable from water company profits💰 . Why the misinformation campaign on £660 billion? 🚨🆘⚠️.
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Brace yourselves for excuses from MPs that they couldn’t vote to hold water companies to account on raw sewage pollution as ‘costs would be passed on to bill payers’. Bear in mind the industry makes billions in profits annually & often avoids paying taxes. #EndSewagePollution
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The #SewageScandal has shown just how much public anger there is about water companies making huge profits whilst dumping vast amounts of sewage into our rivers & ocean. This MUST change - MPs must take strong action tomorrow to #EndSewagePollution @sascampaigns @SOSWhitstable
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The moat of shit is almost complete. A feacal fortress created by Brexit, water companies, government negligence & deregulation. 💩💩💩💩#sewagescandal @sascampaigns @RiverActionUK
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The most effective carbon capture & storage ever invented is leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
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The world needs to stop fucking around and put an end to destroying nature like we are. Fully protect massive areas of land and sea. Prevent the industrialisation of wild habitats. And end fossil fuels. We all depend on massive interventions that put nature not money first.
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Just let this sink in…. The Director of the Environment Agency told @ITVTonight that England’s rivers should not be swum in. #SewageScandal #Sewage . 💩🦠🤮.
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Taking the sewage scandal to the High Court with @GoodLawProject ✊Water companies have been putting their profits above protecting people or planet for 30 years. Sewage pollution blights our rivers & coastlines. It’s time for a serious action! @JolyonMaugham
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Time to ban industrial super trawlers. Possibly the biggest single killers of marine life. Shock in France after giant trawler sheds 100,000 dead fish off coast
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It will soon be illegal in France to wrap fruit & vegetables in plastic. Bans work. When will the UK follow suit?. #EndPlasticPollution 🛑 . @sascampaigns @GreenpeaceUK .
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Japan’s new whaling ‘mother ship’ being built to travel as far as Antarctica. This madness must be stopped.
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Incredible encounter with a humpback whale in St Ives Bay, Cornwall 🐋🐋🐋 #WildOcean @CF_Conf @BBCCornwall #CoastalFutures23
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Things to remember if you’re out and about in the Easter sunshine this weekend. 🛑The ocean is not a bin. 🛑The beach is not a bin. 🛑The park is not a bin. 🛑The countryside is not a bin. 🛑The street is not a bin. 🙏🌱🌏♻️☀️🌊. #MillionMileBeachClean #MillionMileClean
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Kudos to all the campaigners protesting @SouthernWater today in Hastings! ✊💩✊💩✊. @SOSWhitstable @sascampaigns .
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Oh by the way, there are now 60 live sewage pollution warnings on the @sascampaigns map. 💩💩 #SewageScandal
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Liz Truss torched the economy. Rishi Sunak torching the environment.
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Sewage pollution at one of my favourite surf spots today. One of many polluted beaches around the southwest today 😡 #SewageScandal @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham @GreenJennyJones @Feargal_Sharkey @sascampaigns
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🆘 Why would you vote against making illegal for water companies to dump sewage into rivers & seas. 🚨If protesters dumped one bucket of raw sewage at Defra HQ there would be swift police action. ⚠️ Water companies dumped 3.1 million hours of sewage into rivers & seas in 2020.
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The Government’s Plan for Water isn’t good enough. It will only lead to a reduction of 10,000 sewage discharges each year. Water companies were responsible for 300,000 sewage spills in 2022. I’ve teamed up @GoodLawProject to take legal action. ✊💩.
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The growing sewage pollution scandal of rivers & seas has been regular headline news this year. Leaving you with another live 2021 map of sewage polluting amazing beaches today. Where people swim, surf & play. 🚨❌💩🌊🌍 #SewageScandal
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The shitstorm after the calm. 💩💩💩🛑🛑🛑 Many south coast beaches off limits due to @SouthernWater sewage discharges. #EndSewagePollution @sascampaigns @Feargal_Sharkey @SOSWhitstable @sewageuk
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For 30 years water companies have hidden ‘continuous’ raw sewage discharges in less publicly visible places, allowing them to over-claim progress & make vast profits. The truth is now out. MPs must now vote to make it a legal obligation for water companies to #EndSewagePollution.
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Water companies: “Nobody told us we couldn’t dump sewage into our rivers & seas.” #nobodytoldme.
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Fresh wave of sewage pollution hits Britain's beaches . "Do they think this is a joke? Do they not realise how much anger there is about their profiteering and pollution?" . @sascampaigns @BBCMarshall @Feargal_Sharkey
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The more nature we have, the more carbon we’ll lock away. More forests, more fish, more animals, more insects, more seaweed. We need it all. Restoring nature is our biggest opportunity to stabilize the climate. 🐋🐟🦈🦭🌳 🌱🦎🌲 #ClimateSolutions.
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The government’s new security strategy is to protect the UK with a moat of sewage.
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Anti littering campaigns consistently fail stop this shocking behaviour. Society must deal w/ root cause of the pollution - disposable, single-use culture & breakdown of recycling systems. The terrifying amount of packaging & plastic produced globally is choking our ocean.
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Whilst the country is focused on illegal parties & double standards, the government is trying to push through the obscene #PoliceBill that will stop protesters, activists & demonstrators standing up for people & planet. @GreenJennyJones @CarolineLucas @ChrisGPackham.
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The state of UK railways. Run into the ground by privatisation in the 1990s. 7hours36mins Truro to Liverpool. 4 changes. £214. Corporate thievery & neglect. Our country has been systematically asset stripped. Time for radical change.
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After 14 amazing years leading @sascampaigns I’m stoked to announce that I’m taking up a new role to lead @oceana in the UK in November. Stoked to be joining such an incredible organisation to campaign on new issues to protect & restore our seas. 🙏🤙✊🌎🌊
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Surely the Prime Minister of just 45 days shouldn’t qualify for the annual payment of £115,000 for life. This would be a terrible injustice given the economic turmoil she triggered for the country. #StopThePayoff.
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It’s the hottest day of the year and @SouthernWater are dumping sewage at beaches again…. @GreenJennyJones @Feargal_Sharkey @sascampaigns @sewageuk @DeborahMeaden . #EndSewagePollution
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On #WorldRiversDay let’s not forget the dirty face of defunding, deregulation and ‘cutting red tape for big business’ - Profiteering water companies spewing millions of hours of sewage pollution into rivers & coastlines. #EndSewagePollution
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Incredible footage of a basking shark & blue fin tuna in Scotland. The seas around the UK are packed with wonder. @BaskingSharkSco @OceanaUK @oceana
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It’s absolutely disgrace to hear politicians talking of dropping green commitments & pledges. In this they show they are dropping commitments to the future of our children, grandchildren and all beyond them. Cowards avoiding what society, people & the environment urgently.
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Water industry investigated for dumping sewage . Environmental regulators investigated for allowing water companies to dump sewage. Financial regulators investigated for allowing water companies to make huge profits whilst dumping sewage . Government investigated on all of above.
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Water company pollutionof our beaches & surf spots has to stop. This is why I was in the High Court with the @GoodLawProject this month challenging the government over the #SewageScandal ✊❌ 💩 🌊❌ @JolyonMaugham
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Just a reminder of live sewage pollution & water quality warnings today, 30th October…. #SewageScandal #sewage #EnvironmentBill @sascampaigns @CarveMag @GeorgeMonbiot @Feargal_Sharkey @frannyarmstrong @rivercide_live @SOSWhitstable
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People power is working. Do not let up. The water industry needs to be placed under maximum pressure until they #EndSewagePollution Investigations should leave no stone unturned & drive the reforms necessary to protect & restore our precious blue spaces.
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Amazing! Giant bluefin tuna seen chasing mackerel off Devon coast
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This is what makes English water companies so profitable. Polluting at will. It has to stop. 💩💩💩 @sascampaigns.
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The privatisation of the water industry has been a financial & environmental catastrophe. Stripping the public of £billions & the country of biodiversity & healthy blue spaces. A well engineered financial trick for a badly engineered & regulated sector.
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No Prime Minister at @COP27P . No King at @COP27P . What sort of message are we sending to the world about the #ClimateEmergency and the crystal clear need to take action now? . @fossiltreaty @tessakhan @WCL_News.
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Fury as ‘two billion litres of sewage dumped into Thames in two days’ @sascampaigns #EndSewagePollution #SewageScandal.
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World leaders on the road into the COP26 conference this year.
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What an incredible photo of a tuna off Watergate Bay, Cornwall this weekend. Let’s hope we see more of these & other apex predators return in numbers as we create highly protected marine areas. #oceanrecovery @sascampaigns 💙🌊🌍🌱.📸: Megan Hemsworth:@surfsistas
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Even the most moderate environmental NGOs are slamming the government’s deregulation agenda that threatens the very natural world we all depend on. We’re in the midst of a nature, biodiversity & climate crisis. We must protect and enhance laws to truly rebuild our wild world.
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What’s the plan when there’s no more trees, no more fish, no more wild animals, no more clean water, no more resources, no safe places left to live?What are governments & billionaires going to do with that? #ClimateEmergency.
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It’s a big day of voting in Parliament today to end the #SewageScandal. MPs must do the right thing to stop polluting water companies & finally hold them to account. Bravo @GoodLawProject @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @SOSWhitstable @sascampaigns ✊✊✊
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Shocking yet unsurprising news. Governments continue to let Big Fishing devastate our ocean with impunity. A small number of powerful & profiteering companies are intent on taking everything for short term gains. Propped up by a coalition of those unwilling to accept the science.
Worrying new findings in @ScienceMagazine: 'Investigation reveals global #fisheries are in far worse shape than we thought – and many have already collapsed' I look forward to reading this in more depth #overfishing 🐟
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I’m still suffering trauma from Brexit campaigns like this. Please not this fake populist nonsense again. Where has honesty gone? Where have the facts gone? How is this even allowed? A commercial brand would not be allowed to advertise like this. Ever.
New polling shows Britain backs new UK oil & gas. That’s because the choice is simple:. Growth or mass unemployment, keeping the lights on or turning your heating off, security or vulnerability, funding our NHS or taking funds away, following the data or surrendering to the mob
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Shouldn’t we be trying to save the environment rather than Christmas?.
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People who grew up before throwaway plastic often say ‘it wasn’t like this in my day’. Of course not: ‘plastic rush’ hadn’t started; ‘fast food’ wasn’t a thing; corporate plastic wasn’t produced in alarming volumes. We’re swamped. Vive la reduction & circular revolution ✊
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In my lifetime humans have destroyed 70% of the world's biodiversity - driving climate change, habitat loss, pollution & overfishing. We haven’t ’lost it’ - we have killed it. Our current trajectory is unsustainable. Our politicians must act now. @COP16Oficial.
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Storms should be named after fossil fuel companies. What a brilliant idea - linking the destruction polluting industries are causing to the ever growing wave of storms, floods, & climate change impacts.
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House of Lords votes 213 - 60 to support the amendment to legally oblige water companies to take action to #EndSewagePollution. Amendment now back to the House of Commons. @amyslack84 @HSwithinbank @sascampaigns #Sewage #EnvironmentBill.
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Just had a great surf…. 🌊💩🏄♂️ . #sewagescandal #environmentbill #surfersagainstsewage @CarveMag @SOSWhitstable @sascampaigns
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It’s incredible how quickly new laws can be imposed on individuals during the health crisis, yet new laws to prevent industry from destroying the planet & driving the environmental crisis are glacially slow (although, even glaciers now seem to be faster. ).
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Greedy water companies stole the money they should have invested to protect the environment from pollution. They now want you to pay it back.
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Amazing job by the brilliant campaigners @SOSWhitstable ✊👏🙏🤙💩❌.
Thank you to everybody who turned out today, all of our incredible guests and @EvolutionDrone for this incredible footage 😲. WHAT A TURNOUT! . Are you you listening @SouthernWater?. #EndSewagePollution
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Keep up the pressure @AmySlack_SAS @sascampaigns ✊✊✊.
🚨 24h after making national news, another discharge has been captured in St Agnes. If this is just run-off, we challenge any @SouthWestWater director to pop in for a dip, the next time we see this "brown discoloration" 💩. We'll even rent you our gasmasks. #SewageScandal
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When a big company plans to dump chemicals in the beautiful St Ives Bay with no environmental impact assessment, it’s time for the community to take a stand. ✊🌊🌎. Check out "KEEP OUR SEA CHEMICAL FREE - Save St.Ives Bay"
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It’s my last day at @sascampaigns HQ. It has been quite a ride and I’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to all the activists, campaigners, volunteers, members, donors, supporters, collaborators, staff & trustees. I’m so proud of what we have achieved for the ocean together! 🤙🌊🌎✊
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The plastic pollution crisis continues. ⚠️ Production accelerating, recycling systems failing & behaviours of people & huge corporations. ⚠️ We urgently need a radical new approach to turn off the plastic pollution tap. 😤✊
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Huge congrats & kudos to @RiverActionUK & the @MarchforWater allies for the amazing action in Westminster today. Massive turnout demanding that @Keir_Starmer & @SteveReedMP put an end to sewage pollution once & for all. 👏💪✊🌎🌊
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I think water companies got the memo that they can dump sewage with impunity now. 💩💩💩 #sewagedcandal #LegalTill2050 @Feargal_Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey @SOSWhitstable @DeborahMeaden
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I want public services that get properly funded - schools, roads, hospitals, street lights, councils, care…. This is what holds society & communities together. Not a 2p cut in National Insurance.
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Maybe the UK plans to solve the health threat to swimmers from water company sewage pollution with signs simply banning swimming…? #SewagePollution @Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones @sascampaigns
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The UK banned industrial sand-eel fishing in our seas to protect seabirds & whales that depend on them & ensure thriving seas. The EU is challenging this so the Danish fleet can exploit for intensive aquaculture, salmon farms, and feed to pigs. @DefraGovUK keep the ban.
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What an incredible #SurfersAgainstSewage Ocean & Climate Emergency #G7 Paddle Protest! @sascampaigns 🤙💥✊☀️🌊🌱🌏🐋
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Government defeated over axing pollution rules ✊✊✊. Congratulations to @GreenJennyJones & the House of Lords. Protecting the environment is something people care about deeply. 🌎.
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Stoked to make @guardian front page news talking sewage pollution & obscene industry profits/fat cat payments to water company executives. #SewageScandal @sascampaigns
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Huge news that Cornwall has been chosen to host the #G7Summit in June. World leaders to descend on Carbis Bay. A great opportunity to embed environmental & sustainability at the heart of discussions, and set a truly green & blue recovery as the world emerges from the pandemic.
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Of course, it’s completely unfashionable and off trend to want a liveable planet. What were they thinking?!
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“Water companies have lost control of their sewage systems. Year after year we see a deluge of pollution seeping and spewing into our waters. Discharged into places we want to enjoy - our rivers & coastline. Enough is enough.” @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham
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I’m almost expecting the government to announce the return of commercial whaling soon. To light our streets, grease the engines of industry, feed the destitute and ‘max out’ the exploitation of homegrown whale ‘reserves’.
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This government is at war with nature, the ocean & our children’s futures. #StopRosebank @OceanaUK.@StopCambo
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It’s quite literally a sea of shit today! Sewage alerts nationwide. 💩🦠🤮🤢 #SurfersAgainstSewage @sascampaigns @Feargal_Sharkey @DrAlexFord @amyslack84
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Legends freeing this entangled sperm whale from fishing gear 👏✊🌊🐋
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Sewage pollution at one of my favourite surf spots earlier this year. Water companies are getting away with blue murder. The government is failing to act fast enough to force them to take action to end the #SewageScandal @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham
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Tax breaks for Big Oil. Planning barriers for offshore renewable energy. This is obscene. The government is prioritising North Sea gas licences and tax breaks for oil companies and stifling offshore renewables. @OceanaUK @oceana @StopCambo .
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