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Promoted by Witham & Braintree Green Party Agent Cllr. Philip Hughes on behalf of James Abbott both at 163 Honeysuckle Way Witham CM8 2YD
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Another chapter in
#waronnature
here in
#Essex
Hedges at
#Witham
dated to C19th destroyed, along with Oak trees; to make way for 2 huge warehouses.
The original plans kept most of trees & hedges.
Revised plans removed ALL of them.
#Braintree
District needs to do better than this
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I often walk past an Oak tree on a rural track that is probably about 350 to 400 years old. Despite that age, its immense value in itself and as a habitat for other species, it has no protection. All veteran trees should be listed under law, just as important buildings are.
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Tory supporting councillor at a meeting this evening described this
#wildflower
verge in
#Rivenhall
as "a mess". Its being being developed under contract with
#Essex
County Council. Essex Wildlife Trust said it was a wonderful achievement. Why are so many Tories anti-nature ?
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Redrow also destroyed this species rich mature native hedge in
#SilverEnd
#Essex
An ecologist consultancy wrote a report saying it was dying.
370 metres of important habitat that supported birds, bats and butterflies.
Gone.
What are you playing at
@Redrowhomes
A lot of people are upset, and you are not doing anything, or responding to them.
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My complaint sent today to Ofcom
@Ofcom
about the persisent misinformation about
#climate
that presenters on GB News and Talk TV engage in. Richard Tice
@TiceRichard
repeatedly uses his show on Talk TV
@TalkTV
as a platform for climate misinformation.
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(2/2) the tree was even there during planning process for large adjacent housing development. Thank you to
#Braintree
District Council for looking into whether the tree could be saved - & cuttings will be taken to start new trees, but this loss another example of nature decline.
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The most important habitats - ancient woodland, veteran native trees, wildflower rich meadows, etc should not be built on. At all. Ever.
No "BNG", no offsetting, no excuses.
Absolute protection.
Leave them be.
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Message to developers and planning consultants - this is not worthless "scrub".
A self seeded blackthorn thicket. One of my fave areas this time of year. Lots of bees, birds and butterflies in there today! 💚
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The PM has said building will be on brownfield, climate change and countryside a priority, build back green etc. So why all over the country are there campaigns against damaging development ripping out habitats and concreting over greenfields ? Did he think we would not notice ?
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Perhaps
@Iromg
and
@TiceRichard
could go down there and tell people in Greece, as they claimed on their
@TalkTV
shows, that this is all "fake".
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Mass destruction of trees & hedges on development sites must stop. Developer paid reports justifying it should be robustly challenged. Policies to protect trees and hedges should be applied & not sidestepped. Planting whips is not a substitute for mature native trees and hedges.
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Tory cllr on
#Braintree
DC recently described those who want to save trees & hedges along A12 corridor as "zealots" - & I believe not a coincidence he did so shortly after I had spoken on same issue.
Never give up on trying to protect
#nature
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I fully support
#Essex
County Council /
#Braintree
District Council wildflowers verges policy (& would do so as had asked for it for yrs !). This verge today in
#Rivenhall
shows what can be done - in effect a linear meadow. Field beyond cropped & sprayed with no wildflowers (1/2)
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This evening on GB News, Wootton hosted, with soft Qs, suggestive lines & lots of smiles, Steve Bannon. One of the leading far-right Trump/MAGA organisers, Bannon lied & lied again about "stolen" 2020 US election, saying Trump won & talked about "snake" Mike Pence - who (1/2)
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Having 'debated' with them for about 2 decades, I would report that AGW Deniers are:
Mostly men
Mostly middle-aged or older
Mostly conservative
Mostly not qualified in the subject
Mostly punters who think they "know better"
but some some are paid to spread misinformation
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Developers pay environmental consultancy firms to produce reports which support their applications, often claiming minimal impacts on habitats and biodiversity as well as claiming that tree losses are mostly of "low quality" specimens. Its a game that is all too familiar.
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At
#Braintree
District Council elections
#Greens
make 5 gains to a total of 6 seats plus 2 Independents newly elected who we are co-operating with. The best ever election night for
#Witham
and
#Braintree
Green Party since our formation 30 years ago.
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@smooredotnet
@NRA
Is that the same NRA that celebrates a "gun of the day" while the USA has an appalling rate of gun deaths and by far the worst record of school shootings in the world ?
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Which is why such trees should be afforded a very high level of protection - just as listed buildings are.
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Via
@WoodlandTrust
#trees
#wellbeing
#nature
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@Heather95238955
@ChidswellGroup
@CIEEMnet
@CommunityPlann1
Acting on behalf of Gladman, an ecology consultancy described this 350 metre long mature native hedge in
#SilverEnd
#Essex
as largely dead and dying and of low value. It had 15 woody species and was an identified bat corridor. It has now been almost completely destroyed.
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Those "useless windmills" are this evening once again supplying more of the UK's electricity than all the nuclear power stations put together - 21% versus 16%.
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Excellent news that Planning Inspector has dismissed the Appeal by Gladman for 90 homes near the river at Black Notley due to "very significant harm to the character and appearance of the countryside and the setting of the settlement". Well done to everyone who has fought this.
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Presenting data in an appropriate and meaningful way - as in this plot - is taught at school in maths and science.
Or at least it was when I was there.
So how many AGW Deniers skipped maths and science ?
Just when you thought he could not get more
#clown
@latimeralder
does indeed go further
#clown
, here with a 100C T range for a plot of UK annual mean temperatures.
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@RussianEmbassy
@mfa_russia
So here is a suggestion - Russia stops bombarding Ukraine with missiles and takes its invasion forces back to Russia and Ukraine stops firing at Russia.
No more war, no more death and destruction.
Russian and Ukrainian civilians's lives are of equal value.
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Is this the first case of hedge netting in
#Braintree
district ? Enquiries underway as to who is responsible for netting hedges along Conrad Road
#Witham
which happens to be next to a development site. Netting hedges is a totally objectionable practice that should be outlawed.
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Beware Tory Ministers in House of Lords.
@GreenJennyJones
takes no prisoners - in the nicest possible way - and with honesty.
"This bill is an attack on democracy within parliament. Rather than taking back control, they are taking away parliament's sovereign power to vote for or against laws... We need to cut our losses and rejoin the EU."
@GreenJennyJones
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As expected, UAH satellite, go-to source for AGW Deniers as it has previously shown slowest warming rate of global data, has reached new record high in Sept., reflecting trend seen in all other data sets.
AGW Deniers now have dilemma. Their "no warming since .." line is busted.
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How ridiculous is this - promoted by
@BBCNews
today - to "promote sustainability & encourage take-up of electric vehicles", super-powered electric cars will have races in some of most remote locations on Earth. How about leaving "some of most remote locations on Earth" alone ?
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By the time of next GE
@CarolineLucas
will have served 14 yrs as MP, but she also served for 11 yrs prior to that as MEP & 4 years before that as a county councillor. So in all nearly 30 yrs as an elected representative. Also party leader and main spokesperson. Huge commitment.
In 13 years as Green MP, I've called out incompetent Ministers, challenged Government cowardice over
#Brexit
, demanded more affordable housing, helped secure ban on fracking, stood up for refugees – and always put
#BrightonPavilion
first. Some of my highlights in Parliament 👇📽️
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Disturbing bats is illegal, but under this Government, it happens routinely. The planning system often fails to protect bats and the police are not interested in using their powers under the law to stop people wilfully shining lights into land which has bat roosts.
@greenbeltsal
It is similar, here is a video of bats flying around the oak tree that is due to be felled, concreted over and a huge
@amazon
warehouse built on at
#MeltonFields
but no one seems to care 😔 as no one will do a bat survey 😔
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History made - first ever
@TheGreenParty
majority local authority - Mid-Suffolk DC goes Green:
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@bbc5live
@TheMrLoophole
@StephenNolan
Or - how about creating more safe space for cyclists so they don't come into conflict with traffic at all ? Cyclists are at far greater risk from being hit by cars and lorries through no fault of their own. Wholly inadequate
#cycling
investment in UK.
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(2/2) to his credit stood up to Trump lies & threats, refusing to illegally overturn election result. Wootton simply nodded & agreed throughout with this dangerous far-right conspiracy theorist, proving once again,
@GBNEWS
is the UK version of Fox & a platform for the far-right.
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This chap says he is a Dr.
But in any case, why comment on climate change when your level of knowledge is that thin to compare global mean T with local daily T cycle.
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This is
@latimeralder
#climateclowns
are consistent in their lies, but some are really stupid with it.
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Braintree Council &
@RedrowHomes
convinced themselves that this hedge was of poor quality, dying, etc and so could be destroyed - all 370 metres of it. This image was taken in June 2018. The hedge has at least 13 species and is a bat feeding corridor. What a shocking decision.
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Thank you to
@AdrianRamsay
Co-Leader of the Green Party
@TheGreenParty
for visiting us and helping to campaign in
#Witham
today for
#LocalElections
2023.
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"Harmony with nature must be maintained".
In just over 1 minute - about as good a speech as you will get on why the Green agenda (in its widest sense) is vital:
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Important trees should have same level of protection as listed buildings. Developers would be forced to design their projects so that important trees are unharmed from outset, instead of playing their tired old game of paying consultants for reports that excuse tree destruction.
Thousands of people ask Amazon not to fell 200-year-old oak tree - Nottinghamshire Live
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Oppose the plans for the wholesale felling of mature trees in Lewes - Sign the Petition! via
@UKChange
Sign the Petition
Oppose the plans for the wholesale felling of mature trees in Lewes
www.change.org
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Another day, another hedge destroyed - this time again in
#Rivenhall
and also young trees destroyed that were planted by the parish council.
I am asking
#Essex
County Council why they did this, especially given all the green wordage we heard at County Hall yesterday.
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Thing is, we are becoming used to this.
I thought (having been interested in weather and climate since 1970s) that 40C in UK was some way off. Then it happened in July 2022 - at 5 stations.
How soon to next 40C+ ?
How long to 21C (70F) in December or January ?
HIGHEST JANUARY TEMPERATURE - Kinlochewe may have reached 19.6C on Sunday but it is now being reported that Achfary, also in Highland Scotland, hit just short of 20C.
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@PlanB1975
@Scumblebutt
@matt_talon
@BritWeatherSvs
@Ofcom
@TiceRichard
@TalkTV
No-one mentioned silencing. Tice can present his case as a skeptic freely - but lying is not presenting a case. Its just lying.
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@ShaunSpiers1
@ExplorerDale
@resi_analyst
@prospect_uk
@RedrowHomes
This - no longer exists. Described by
@RedrowHomes
consultants as a poor and dying hedge.
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Two of most active merchants of this misinformation during the summer were
@TiceRichard
& Mike Graham of
@talktv
Despite requests for regulators to intervene, Talk TV (as today) continues as a source of lies & misinformation on
#climate
at a level Trump would likely approve of.
Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures
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Daftness of AGW Deniers gets more
#clown
by the day.
We are used to seeing them post plots showing global mean T with Y axis range of 40C; now there is an advocate of 250F range !
This "flatten the trend to nothing" nonsense would be spotted by a maths-competent 12 yr old.
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@Iancoll94354676
He does it routinely. But call out his behaviour and you are likely to get an insult or personalised falsehood back from him. Lies repeatedly about climate science. Not fit to be a broadcaster.
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Very pleased to announce that I will be the
#GreenParty
candidate for the General Election in
#Witham
constituency following a selection process - thank you to local members for their support. Full statement and policy pledges tomorrow.
#GeneralElection19
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Renewables rise to 19.2% of UK electricity generation in 2014 - ahead of nuclear for the first time ever: growing
#green
success.
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UAH **used to be** the favoured data source for
#climateclowns
as it showed a lesser warming trend than other sources. Now that the clowns do not have a "no warming since ..." source, they are increasingly resorting to just making stuff up.
UAH satellite data posts new record high and 7th month in a row higher than any previous El Nino period:
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I said same at a meeting tonight at
#Braintree
District Council. Biodiversity Net Gain plans as things stand will not stop the decline of
#nature
. To do that we need to stop destroying habitats in situ and stop pretending they can be "provided somewhere else".
⚠️ GRIM NEWS: The latest UK Biodiversity Indicators paint a bleak picture.
@SteveBarclay
, there’s lots to do and
#NatureCantWait
!
ALL of these have seen population falls:
📉 Farmland birds
📉 Woodland birds
📉 Wetland birds
And that's not all 👇
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Sorry, but I have little faith in BNG.
Many developers will carry on as before - destroy nature on site, claim they are recreating nature somewhere else.
But nature is not like lego bricks.
We need law/regulation that protects valued nature on site. You simply cannot build on it.
Good to see rules on
#BiodiversityNetGain
for development projects are now in place, but how can we improve them?
📈Support councils going above the 10% minimum
🚫No selling of excess nature units
🔍Better monitoring and enforcement of projects 👇
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Andrew Neil used his Sunday BBC politics prog to push skeptic lines. I complained about lack of balance & ended up speaking to his editor. I explained that some material Neil used was straight from AGW Denier sources such as Monckton, playing the "hasn't warmed since ..." game.
For decades, the Daily Mail has failed to tell the truth about climate change - and about the urgent need for climate action.
Now the UN is warning of "catastrophic" consequences for humanity - yet the Mail keeps on pushing out messages like this...
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BREAKING NEWS - The Inspector to the North Essex Local Plan has now reported - and he has THROWN OUT the Local Plan as a whole. He said that the proposed New Town on the Tendring/Colchester Border can proceed, but the two others should be removed - so West of Braintree and (1/2)
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This weekend taking down & collecting up our
#Green
Party election posters & boards from
#LocalElection2023
including climbing 20 ft up in tree to get banner shown below - put there by me to overcome Tory bully-boy tactics of repeatedly blocking out our posters with bespoke (1/3)
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@SConwaySmith
@GretaThunberg
Of course - its all natural. The rising global Ts, the retreating glaciers, rising sea level, melting Arctic sea ice, increasing sea surface Ts. All natural - according to those who don't have the faintest clue..
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Guess what, its Redrow again, wanting to destroy another important hedgerow. Good luck to the campaigners trying to stop them. Volume developers who say they care about the environment are usually
#greenwashing
Quick recap of the cross party Yew Tree Farm protest today ❤️🧡💚💙 what a great example of people power✊definitely watch the ITV news coverage though or the videos/articles from
@TristanCorkPost
or
@beardedjourno
for a much better summary. They are excellent. 🌳
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Today the large native hedge along Western Road
#SilverEnd
was destroyed by
@RedrowHomes
- allowed by
#Braintree
Council and
#Essex
County Council. Shame on you all. This is yet more loss of habitat for birds, insects and bats & you failed to protect even some of it. Shame on you
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@RussianEmbassy
@mfa_russia
@BBCWorld
@bbcrussian
@Telegraph
@guardian
@FT
@TheEconomist
@spectator
@LBCNews
@GBNEWS
Russia invaded
#Ukraine
in Feb 2022 - and repeat a million times and then another million times. No amount of Lavrov propaganda will change the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine - and Russia lied repeatedly by saying it would not do so.
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@GBNewsSpin
As
@MichaelLCrick
said on air to them (well done), GB News is a right wing propaganda platform.
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Prime Minister's "newt counting" harming UK economy claims have been looked into & found to be entirely bogus. But what it does reveal is reality of Tory attitude towards protected species & habitats - such details get in the way of big business converting countryside into money.
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And again - binary thinking.
It is astonishing that people who are clearly so clueless about science have so much to say about it, and actaully think they know better than qualified professional scientists.
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(2/2) the vast West Tey New Town, both largely in open countryside, now look finished. This is vindication of years of work of residents, parish councils, local campaign groups & opposition cllrs at Braintree District Council. Green & Independent Group will be issuing a statement
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Our pond refurb and new wildflower area pretty much finished now:-
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It will soon be time for bats to emerge and start feeding regularly as Spring brings warming temps. How confident are you
@RedrowHomes
that bats will return to Western Road Silver End after you removed 300 metres of hedgerow and with all your poorly designed lights on all night ?
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Excellent. Explains why Tories are turning to attack Greens - they are getting worried. Greens taking seats straight from Tories rare years ago - now happening more and more.
Green GAIN from Tories on
@EastHantsDC
. Blossom Gottlieb is the first Green District Councillor in Hampshire. Turned 21 during the campaign! Amazing result
#GettingGreatGreensElected
@TheGreenParty
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@mfa_russia
Good - but then why is Russia helping trapped people in Turkey and burying people in rubble in
#Ukraine
?
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Just about as good an example you will get of the sub-zero scientific illiteracy of AGW Deniers.
Every day, the likes of
@JunkScience
@TonyClimate
and
@_ClimateCraze
pump out nonsense like this.
The only benefits are to their egos and the massive $$$ profits of Big Oil.
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Weather forecasts now firming up on significant UK heatwave on the way. After another dry spring and early summer here in
#Essex
that is a worry. Planning has consistently side-stepped water deficit in our county whilst piling in ever more development.
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Just when you thought he could not get more
#clown
@latimeralder
does indeed go further
#clown
, here with a 100C T range for a plot of UK annual mean temperatures.
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Amusing to watch panic in
#climateclown
community trying to explain away July 2023 UAH data - their long-favourite source has let them down with a big upward spike in global T. It came as no surprise to anyone paying attention to all the other data and modelling. All say same.
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Right winger who rountinely stuggles with facts
@TiceRichard
claims that Net Zero targets will result in animals being culled and that Net Zero advocates are "mad killers". In the UK over a billion animals are killed for meat each year, globally it is 80 billion.
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In
#Essex
the Green Party
@TheGreenParty
is fielding 131 candidates at
#LocalElections2023
, part of the largest ever slate of Green local election candidates nationally - 3,322 in total.
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The greenwashing from developers and councils has to be stopped - and confronted so it is stopped. Behind the greenspeak is the same old agenda. Most development sites see the majority of trees and hedges destroyed -to maximise £ profits.
1/2 This is absolutely disgusting 😡
@RochfordDC
have allowed the killing of this majestic 150y/o
@holt_farm_oak
tree to allow
@BloorHomes
to build 600 houses. This unnecessary wanton destruction was right outside
@HoltFarmJunSch
. 💔 Abhorrent.
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Just wondering - has anyone read a developer funded ecology report that says hedges/trees/habitats on an application site are good quality and must be kept ?
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@wideawake_media
@ClimateRealists
Is he really that thick ? Humans have increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere from 280ppm to 420ppm (and rising). It is a cumulative process - adding each year.
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@DanicaPriest
@Redrow
Redrow are just another volume developer prepared to commit ecocide to maximise profits. This was a superb mature native hedge in Silver End,
#Essex
- over 350 metres long. Photo taken June 2018. Now completely destroyed by Redrow:
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AGW Deniers like
@TonyClimate
routinely mislead about science & data but sometimes go off into territory exposing they just punters having a go. Not for 1st time, here we have daft attempt to use Mars to try to attack science on Earth. Mars atmos. pressure less than 1% of Earth.
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What is it about AGW denying conservative men of a certain age - that they feel the need to keep having a go at a young female environmental campaigner ?
@KeillerDon
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@AndyBissitt
I will be standing in
#Witham
constituency and will be raising this issue strongly.
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During visit of
#Green
Party Co-Leader
@AdrianRamsay
to
#Witham
we did the 'politicians check potholes' thing - as you do - in this case this hole in the footway near the railway station in
#Witham
has been there for years, reported many times but not repaired by
@essexhighways
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Those "useless windmills" are tonight providing over 40% of UK grid electricity. Coal is zero. 💚
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Over the years as a councillor and campaigner I have got all too used, as others have, to the misinformation applied by developers about trees and hedges they want to remove - they so often are apparently "poor quality" and "dying" when they are in the way of their plans (1/2)
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Strong & clear piece this evening on
@BBCCountryfile
about failures of current mitigation in
#planning
+ huge threat to rare
#bat
colonies in Norfolk from Tory County Council road building plans. Clueless Tory Govn Minister claimed developers under new laws have to put back (1/2)
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We need to stop destroying nature. We need to stop pretending it can be replaced "somewhere else". UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in Europe. 13 years of Tories has been a disaster for nature, and it sounds as if Labour could be just as bad. Vote
#Green
What will cost over £251,000,000 and spells devastation for Norfolk's wildlife?
That's right, it's the Norwich Western Link Road. Unfortunately, this is no joke - we need your help to stand up for nature today:
🧵(1/3)
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@TiceRichard
Hi Richard, yes I enjoy debate. Surely you remember that I challenged you & MG over numerous false claims you both made on Talk TV - that 40C+ in UK in July 2022 was caused by jet aircraft, that BBC forecast Ts for N Africa & S Europe were false. All were true. Despite (1/2)
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Just had e-mail from
@HighwaysEngland
about meeting to discuss the "A120 improvements" - which is to build a completely new road through open countryside between Braintree and the A12 - being promoted by the 'green' Tories as a growth corridor - for development and traffic. (1/2)
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@TiceRichard
(2/2) being shown clear evidence they were accurate you both kept repeating misleading lines. Indeed MG was doing it again this morning, claiming climate is "all about money". BTW, talking of free speech, MG blocked me on twitter for having the cheek to point out he was wrong.
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