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James Wallace
1 year
My wife Becca died in February after the WONDERFUL @NHSEngland gave her 9 extra years living with #Cancer But during her illness ambulances didnt turn up, beds were unavailable & Drs were scarce because: Government cuts increased waiting lists from 2.5m to 6m patients, hospital
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James Wallace
10 months
Anyone else think @Feargal_Sharkey should be awarded a knighthood for his relentless campaigning to expose the water pollution scandal? Like & share if you agree (A sainthood may be more appropriate… you need the patience of one to put up with this 💩)
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James Wallace
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Director of @Ofwat wants to block consumer legal ‘class actions’ against water company polluters Oh & she’s adviser to water industry lobbying group Global Counsel No conflict of interest here @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @adamvaughan_uk
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James Wallace
2 years
Imagine theUK’s trashed rivers having a Utrecht style makeover? All those 1000s of miles of defiled polluted concreted ditches breathing life back into our once green & pleasant land… Where there is hope, there is life @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
1 year
This is my local river, where I swim with my teenage girls Last year 7 children were seriously ill from swimming in the River Kennet How long before a child dies at the hands of @thameswater ?!🤬 @ARKennet @WindrushWasp @RiverActionUK @HenleyMermaids
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James Wallace
6 months
BREAKING: Family including baby hospitalised by @thameswater sewage Does someone have to die for the @EnvAgency to enforce the law? @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @Laura__Farris
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James Wallace
1 year
BREAKING: @theresecoffey offers helping hand to loo users:🖕 “Let me pop that straight in the river for you”💩 So kind… a glimpse of the @Conservatives manifesto?
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James Wallace
1 year
🏊‍♀️France: Macron invests €1.4bn to cut the crap from the River Seine for 2024 Olympic swimming in Paris🏊‍♀️ 💩England: Sunak cuts nutrient neutrality pollution legislation for house builders that will destroy our rivers💩 The House of Lords MUST defeat this ecocidal insanity‼️
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James Wallace
1 year
Major polluters could be jailed for 20 years under new Ecocide Bill in Scotland‼️ Anyone fancy introducing ecocide laws in Westminster? Might stem the flow of 💩⁉️ @GreenJennyJones @SteveReedMP @timfarron @carolvorders @paulpowlesland @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
2 years
Breaking news: @theresecoffey 1st act as new SOS @DefraGovUK is to make it easier for agricultural polluters to kill our rivers!! New Env Act target will be pushed back from 2037 to 2040. This Govt doesnt give 💩 about water emergency😡 #AttackOnNature
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James Wallace
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In less than 2 weeks this place - Parliament Square - will turn blue as we #MarchforWater on 3rd November To ask our Government to stop the poisoning of our rivers lakes & seas No more pollution for profit Enforce the law Reform the regulators @MarchforWater @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
1 year
When did you last see a river in England look like this? #SewageScandal #RegenAg
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Lewis Pugh Foundation
1 year
This stretch of the River Aare in Switzerland is exactly what our rivers should look like. Revitalised. Protected. Healthy 🏞️🐟💙 🎥: Michel Roggo
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James Wallace
8 months
🙏Thank you @Conservatives for helping water companies to prosper By cutting petty environmental red tape Our poo💩has never had it so good Let us thank you in a #GeneralElectionNow @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveReedMP @timfarron @CarolineLucas @larryandpaul
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James Wallace
1 year
Man hospitalised with life-threatening sepsis after paddling in River Kennet @Thameswater response: denial Does someone have to die before criminally negligent water cos admit responsibility & clear up their💩? @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @ARKennet
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James Wallace
8 months
Outrageous sewage discharge by @thameswater foaming like a dirty pint of 💩at Little Marlow, captured on film by @SteveBackshall today Samples sent off to a lab for pathogen testing The likely result: evidence of a massive dump in our river by corporate profiteers
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RiverActionUK
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Thank you, @Stevebackshall ! 🙌 #riverchampion THE STATE OF OUR SEWAGE INDUSTRY IS A NATIONAL SCANDAL🤬 Another poignant 📽️ exposing the appalling state of our rivers - courtesy of failing water companies, complete regulatory failure and government inaction.. 1/2🧵 #sewagescandal
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James Wallace
7 months
BREAKING: @thameswater spilled raw sewage during #BoatRace2024 💩 From Cobham & Windsor through Reading, Oxford & Cheltenham pollution spewed into #Thames Can there be any doubt who is responsible for 🤮poisoning rowers with E.coli?🦠 When will @DefraGovUK PUNISH POLLUTERS?😡
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James Wallace
6 months
It was bound to happen: a major swimming race in the #Thames has just been cancelled The threat of E.coli poisoning is so high the organisers have rightly put people before profit @thameswater this is on you @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveBackshall @HenleyMermaids @davejvwallace
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James Wallace
1 year
How about holding an emergency board meeting and sacking @bencaldecott for interfering with @rspb doing its job? Let's be clear: NGOs are within the law and right to speak truth to power Liars, liars, pants on fire!!!🔥
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James Wallace
2 years
@Cargill aka @AvaraFoods , whose chicken factories are polluting the River Wye, was sued in US 20 years ago for the same ecocide crime! @HfdsCouncil @EnvAgency Wye oh Wye did you let this happen again? Protect our river & wildlife not corporate greed!
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James Wallace
2 years
#Beavers launch in Hampshire! What a treat to witness Mandy Lieu & Rob Needham of @BeaverTrust release a pair at Ewhurst Park Slowing the flow… one stream at a time…
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James Wallace
2 years
We are watching you @thameswater Long term effect of your sewage in chalk streams is devastating. This is the SSSI protected River Kennet From afar: stunning wildlife haven🐟🪲🌿 Below the surface: deathly coating of algal sludge☠️⚰️ Thank you @ARKennet for trying to clean up
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James Wallace
8 months
📣Potty polluter complains about use of FOUL language‼️ Dear @thameswater I’d like to unreservedly NOT apologise for using the words SH💩T T💩RD 💩SS in my speech to the sewage industry last week Until you stop sh💩tting in our rivers, we’ll keep saying it how it is: SH💩T
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James Wallace
2 years
Whoop: new job! I am so chuffed to join the inspiring @watsonchas leading @RiverActionUK mission to rescue Britain’s rivers. Please like - share - follow. Together we will pressure @DefraGovUK & polluting industries to wipe up after themselves: high time for no more 💩‼️
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RiverActionUK
2 years
We are thrilled today to announce River Action's expansion, marked by the arrival of our new CEO @jaowallace 🎉 This signifies an exciting scale up in both our funding & campaigning to address the UK's river pollution crisis. 👉
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James Wallace
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WARNING☠️ no rain but @thameswater spills sewage in Aldbourne streets, putting my family & community health at risk So @RiverActionUK is testing how much dangerous E.coli🦠 could get into our homes But will @EnvAgency act on the evidence?! @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveBackshall
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James Wallace
8 months
London's running out of water @LondonAssembly asked @DefraGovUK why they are delaying decisions on new reservoirs In the meantime could @thameswater tell us when they are going to stop leaking 600 million litres a day? @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
10 months
3.5 years since @G_RhysJones wrote this excellent piece on the national sewage & agriculture 💩pollution scandal Literally nothing has improved since Shame on @DefraGovUK & this rotten egg stink of an effluent Government Bring on the election‼️
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James Wallace
10 months
☠️Warning to households from @Feargal_Sharkey and me: something sinister lurks in floodwaters Clue: its brown & stinks of water co profiteering 💩Remember to wash your hands (of this corrupt Government)💩 #SewageScandal @StephSpyro @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
10 months
This illegal ecocidal madness actually happens! Literally spraying 💩over a hedge in heavy rain Will @EnvAgency even bother to visit, let alone send a pathetic advisory letter, levy a hefty fine or prosecute?
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Steve Atkins
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@wrurestore Like some fresh slurry to go with that this morning of very heavy rainfall?
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James Wallace
10 months
NEWS‼️ @Conservatives Bootcamp flooded with raw sewage Karma proven as Eton College overflowing loos block lessons in Cronyism, Deregulatology, Austeritomics & giving a💩 about the plebs (us) @Feargal_Sharkey @carolvorders @PeterStefanovi2 @MarinaPurkiss
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James Wallace
2 years
📣Directors of @Shell_UKLtd are being personally sued for causing climate breakdown🔥 ⚖️Retweet if you want directors of water companies sued for illegally polluting OUR rivers & sea💩 @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
1 year
🎉 @WomensInstitute #WI_AM2023 massive win for rivers as 180,000 amazing women agree to lead a national campaign for bathing waters to make @DefraGovUK clean up pollution Thank you for the honour of asking me to fill for @Feargal_Sharkey to debate the resolution with @al_chisholm
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James Wallace
8 months
Breaking: @EnvAgency regulator fights court ruling that they should… REGULATE!!
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Fish Legal
8 months
@SteveBarclay wants to overturn a landmark Judgement that exposed how @DefraGovUK and @EnvAgency had completely misunderstood their duties to restore England’s rivers. He wants to spend taxpayer money fighting us, not fixing the problem. A 🧵…
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James Wallace
1 year
The number of communities gathering evidence of @thameswater threatening lives and livelihoods along our river is growing Sonning and Wargrave sign up to join Henley and Marlow at our event tonight People power v profiteering polluters
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Alastair Driver
1 year
At Henley and Marlow River Action event this evening with @RiverActionUK @WindrushWasp @Thames21 et al. Great example of local volunteers mobilising citizen science - monitoring nitrates and phosphates with simple kits and online reporting - for the fight against sewage pollution
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James Wallace
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THANKS @thameswater for my agonising bladder infection since Tuesday FACTS 🏊I swam at Fawley on Monday 💩Henley sewage works discharges bacteria everyday 🦠E.coli causes 90% of UTIs ⏰alarmists @RiverActionUK tested 2964CFU 💷talented TW CEO awarded £195k performance bonus
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James Wallace
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Day 2 Legal Dream Team @MatrixChambers David Wolfe KC, Peter Lockley, @LeighDay_Law Carol Day, Ricky Gama Presenting @RiverActionUK case to protect #RiverWye from regulators @EnvAgency @DefraGovUK & a 💩load of 🐓 It rains & water gods are smiling @Feargal_Sharkey @watsonchas
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James Wallace
2 months
Meet a short section of the River Kennet in Hungerford This is what a chalk stream can look like: clean, clear and cold Sadly, much of this river is smothered by algae from nutrient pollution 🙌 to riverkeeper Rob Nightstar for his heroic work over 40 years @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
1 year
Calling corrupt water companies big agriculture & failing governments 👀Watch out, the public knows about your dirty 💩secrets & we are coming for you with determined smiles & sharp teeth ⬇️Check out this ep of @8outof10bats with me @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin PLEASE SHARE🏹
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RiverActionUK
1 year
A huge thanks to @ChrisGPackham , @MeganMcCubbin and the team @8outof10bats for inviting us to discuss the threats that are facing our rivers and waterways 🌊💩⚠️ If you missed the episode, you can catch up here: @jaowallace @watsonchas @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
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Another rower sick from E.coli caused by @thameswater sewage spills @EnvAgency When will this outrage stop?! Does someone have to die from sepsis before @No10Official will listen? We must protect people and rivers not shareholder profits @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveBackshall
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Louise Grayham
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@TeresaRoberts05 @RiverActionUK @ChrisGPackham @SteveBackshall @jaowallace @watsonchas @RobGMacfarlane @MeganMcCubbin @BritishRowing @Feargal_Sharkey It’s also other parts of the Thames. I row a few locks upstream of the tideway and have been bed bound for the last few days due to water (e. coli) getting in my blisters. I will get better but am absolutely fuming at the incompetent & uncaring Thames Water right now!
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James Wallace
1 year
Beautiful blackbird fledgling peacefully taking in the world after her first flight from ivy nest to fig tree It’s spring & birds are hungry for wriggly food Please cut out chemicals & leave wild spaces for insects in your garden🧵 #NoMowMay @BBCSpringwatch @Natures_Voice
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James Wallace
2 months
Breaking: cyanide poisoning causes major fish kill near Walsall. 12 miles of canal closed New government must fit new dentures to toothless @EnvAgency Nothing short of total regulatory overhaul will do @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @WindrushWasp
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James Wallace
1 year
A massive result for our rivers!! Huge congratulations to @GreenJennyJones & all those peers in the Lords for stopping ecocidal deregulation This is surely a sign of hope that working across parties & between NGOs we can protect nature & communities together
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RiverActionUK
1 year
🚨BREAKING on #NutrientNeutrality : Cross-party Peers have defeated Government plans to unleash house-building sewage pollution in our rivers.🌊 Thank you @greenjennyjones @natalieben @LabourLordsUK @LibDemLords and all those who made this happen.💪👏👏👏 @jaowallace reports:
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James Wallace
11 months
According to CEO of @NatResWales : "Prosecuting water companies doesnt help the environment" You WHAT? The threat of prosecution is so low it doesnt act as a deterrent Regulators don't regulate. THAT's the problem😡 @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
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River campaigner & wildlife champion @SteveBackshall warns of vanishing kingfishers & otters near his home on #Thames A catastrophe unfolding while @thameswater shareholders pillage billpayers & nature @SteveReedMP please put this failing monopoly in special administration
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Steve Backshall
3 months
River update; what will the long term effects be of sewage releases? For paddlers etc I’d recommend washing your hands before eating. Use the Thames Water storm discharge map especially after heavy rains. @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
11 months
Dear @_RobbieMoore Welcome to your new job as Water Minister Your claim of Tory success on water quality when standards have dropped AGAIN may come back to haunt you Perhaps some hubris, honesty & accountability from now on, eh? @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
1 year
@theAliceRoberts Well said @theAliceRoberts We face a #FreshwaterEmergency that will not only risk disease but the decimation of wildlife & water insecurity leading to millions without water
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James Wallace
6 months
Yet more high levels of E.coli found in the Thames catchment, this time on the River Kennet Fantastic to have @SteveBackshall campaigning with @RiverActionUK to pressure @thameswater to stop their profiteering & pollution💩 Thank you @BBCBreakfast for sharing our story❤️
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BBC Breakfast
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Television naturalist Steve Backshall has described pollution found in the River Thames as "toxic". James Wallace from River Action told #BBCBreakfast testing revealed how bad the situation is
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James Wallace
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NEWS @EnvAgency is late to 74% of serious pollution incidents & often downgrades without reason Imagine a motorway pileup ignored by ambulances Why should life threatening pollution be ignored in rivers⁉️ @watsonchas @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @UE
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James Wallace
5 months
While my wife was dying of cancer @thameswater raw sewage flooded our home 5.5 million properties face flooding costing £14bn & disease risk rises But @DefraGovUK cuts flood defence projects & lets water cos defecate in our streets My latest #PositiveDisruptor @countryandtown
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James Wallace
9 months
My daughter Flora & friend Tara witness @RiverActionUK & @LeighDay_Law taking the @EnvAgency to court today With one simple request: Please enforce the law & protect #RiverWye from 24million🐓💩 Our children demand healthy rivers & clean water‼️ @Feargal_Sharkey @watsonchas
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James Wallace
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Guess what my daughter is studying in A Level Geography today? 🐓Agricultural pollution💩killing the #RiverWye ☠️ What an achievement of campaigners @FriendsUpperWye @SaveTheWye @wildwomanwye @watsonchas What a disgrace by @DefraGovUK @AvaraFoods @NobleFoods @Tesco
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James Wallace
6 months
WOW!! The mission to #RescueBritainsRivers from💩just had a MASSIVE boost🚀 Baroness @GreenJennyJones joins @RiverActionUK Advisory Board🎉 Working with our river heroes inc @Feargal_Sharkey @BrowningHelen @AliDriverUK @ruthmchambers @GeorgeMonbiot @ruthdavis27 @watsonchas
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RiverActionUK
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✨We're delighted to welcome @GreenJennyJones to River Action’s Advisory Board!✨ Jenny's roles and impact in UK politics needs little introduction, and her wealth of knowledge will be invaluable for our mission to #rescuebritainsrivers Find out more 👉
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James Wallace
1 year
Why must volunteers like @watervole3 expose the dirty business of water companies? Because regulators like @NatResWales @EnvAgency have been stripped of funding, staff & teeth 1146 days of illegal sewage spills in Cardigan💩 0 prosecutions in 5 years🤬
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James Wallace
2 years
Drought predicted into 2023. Water companies have had decades to prepare for hot dry weather & low rainfall. Why didn’t ⁦ @DefraGovUK ⁩ ⁦ @EnvAgency ⁩ make them invest in fixing leaky infrastructure rather than asset strip & pay dividends?
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James Wallace
1 year
Holiday from pollution with family in Cornwall… But no escape: Loe Pool SSSI covered in deathly algal bloom☠️ @LoePoolForum & Cober Catchment Partnership silent for 3 years Natural solutions by @nationaltrust @CwallWildlife but when will @SouthernWater end the 💩ecocide?! 1/2
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James Wallace
4 months
@doctor_oxford Dear @doctor_oxford it happened often to my wife before she died from cancer Sepsis, C.diff, Campylobacter: ambulances late, no bed, no antibiotics Not @NHS fault, medics tried, but not enough staff/beds A dying women treated like collateral damage in a war on pubic healthcare
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James Wallace
1 year
My wife Becca died in February after the WONDERFUL @NHSEngland gave her 9 extra years living with #Cancer But during her illness ambulances didnt turn up, beds were unavailable & Drs were scarce because: Government cuts increased waiting lists from 2.5m to 6m patients, hospital
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James Wallace
1 year
@WindrushWasp investigation exposes @EnvAgency board directors hold shares in water companies & agribusinesses they are meant to regulate!! This is a clear conflict of interest requiring immediate investigation @DefraGovUK Share to show your outrage!
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James Wallace
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41 MPs write to @Ofwat boss asking to protect bill payers & stop water company dividends and: @RiverActionUK data shows @thameswater putting health of 1000s of people at risk Environment Act gives regulators powers It’s time for the new @DefraGovUK SoS @SteveReedMP to use them
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James Wallace
4 months
Serial polluter @thameswater accused @RiverActionUK & @davejvwallace of being alarmists Explain our E.coli reading from Henley Royal Regatta course yesterday: nearly 4000CFUs - 4 times @EnvAgency limit for safe swimming? Anyone not alarmed must have something to hide
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James Wallace
1 year
💩🏠Brick Shithouse Debacle @michaelgove : “There will be no abandonment of environmental protection.” @PeterStefanovi2 : “This is of course complete bollox” Say it how it is: this government wants to rip up pollution legislation to line industry pockets
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James Wallace
10 months
Yet more broken promises from this incontinent arse of a Government, leaking 💷 to cronies &💩in our rivers £227million gone missing from farm payments, the day before @defra SoS @SteveBarclay will boast of record spending @SteveReedMP @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
7 months
🦠10 x more E.coli in River Thames than safe to bathe in‼️ Historic #BoatRace teams issued with health warning by @RiverActionUK @BritishRowing Rowers stand united in asking @thameswater & @EnvAgency to clean up their💩
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RiverActionUK
7 months
BREAKING NEWS‼️ @RiverActionUK has found alarmingly high levels of dangerous E.coli from #sewagepollution along the stretch of the Thames that will be used for this weekend's historic Oxford v Cambridge boat race🤯 Read more 👉 #TheBoatRace #sewagescandal
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James Wallace
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Fed up with greedy polluting water companies & Government?💷 1) Tell them to take their fingers out of their lying asses💩 & stick them in their leaky assets🚰 2) Share my latest in @countryandtown ⬇️ 3) #FollowBackFriday 🙂 🧵
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James Wallace
8 months
#Wye I joined @RiverActionUK @watsonchas taking the Government to court to save a river Instead of protecting citizens & nature, ministers & their minstrels protect profits of corporate polluters Please share my #PositiveDisruptor column for @countryandtown @Feargal_Sharkey
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James Wallace
10 months
I buy my water & sewage services from @thameswater 28% of my bill is used to service THEIR £14.7bn debt Check out @guardian to see how much you have been ripped off THEN TELL YOUR WATER CO WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR💩😡 @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK
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James Wallace
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Oh my big barbel its Paul Whitehouse & @RealBobMortimer from @MWGoneFishing asking if you would kindly join them for a stroll... to Parliament Square @MarchforWater on 3rd November Bring your rod #wearblue #floodthestreets @AnglingTrust @RiverActionUK @TheJimMurray @Petex70
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March for Clean Water
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“Who likes dirty rivers? Not I!” @PaulWhitehouse & Bob Mortimer, we salute you!🫡 Are you also outraged by the state of our waterways? Then join us in London on Sun 3rd Nov.🪧🌊 Wear blue, get your props ready and let's make this a march to remember!✊
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James Wallace
4 years
Quote from me in The Times today: "If you can shoot a beaver, why can’t you put a dart in the barrel rather than a bullet?" @nature_scot @DefraGovUK Please translocate beavers don't kill them @pow_rebecca @ZacGoldsmith @strathearnrose @TonyJuniper
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James Wallace
1 year
@GreenJennyJones The three people in this photo have achieved more for us and nature in the past year than a whole Government has since 2010 IMHO they have done more to reverse the devastating impacts of this Government than anyone else too @GreenJennyJones @ChrisGPackham @CarolineLucas
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James Wallace
2 years
Dear Sir @BillWigginMP please stop promoting the interests of river killing corporate factory farms (eg @AvaraFoods owned by @Cargill ) & do your job to protect the health & livelihoods of your constituency. The death sentence of the #RiverWye has your governments name on it.
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Friends of the River Wye
2 years
We were dismayed to read @BillWigginMP ’s column in the @herefordtimes this week. We’ve written a letter in response, which makes the following points… 🧵
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James Wallace
1 year
Our chalk streams are being hammered by over abstraction & sewage spills But their is hope. Communities & NGOs speaking up. Join us in asking Government to protect these globally rare habitats & enforce the law #SaveOurChalkStreams @Feargal_Sharkey @MeganMcCubbin @Debbie_Tann
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
1 year
Join @RiverActionUK CEO @jaowallace in supporting our #SaveOurChalkStreams campaign. We are demanding government provide new legal protections for chalk streams, make polluters pay, and restore England's chalk streams to their vibrant, healthy state! 🔗
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James Wallace
9 months
Defra likes to claim that most or all sewage overflows are monitored They seem preoccupied with spinning greenwash laced with poisonous effluent to protect an outgoing Government rather than protecting the health of our rivers & communities
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Feargal Sharkey
9 months
"Revealed: The hidden sewage spills damaging our national parks and beauty spots." So when govt told you the other day that 100% of sewage dumping locations were now monitored guess what? It was a lie.
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James Wallace
2 years
When 📣campaigners like @Feargal_Sharkey & @watsonchas join forces, 💩 polluters & politicians reach for the bog roll🧻 What a treat to work with them at @RiverActionUK & the many river hero/ines listed👇 Together we will #RescueBritainsRivers Who else should we celebrate? 1/3
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James Wallace
8 months
Even international journalism students are cutting their teeth on #RiverWye farm pollution scandal Sydney Johnson, of Maryland USA, is studying in Cardiff Like us she is shocked by how much Government💩 is in our rivers @Feargal_Sharkey @watsonchas
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James Wallace
1 year
If you are fed up with the sewage & farming shit storm killing our rivers there's something you can do: Sign the @RiverActionUK petition NOW!! It's time to tell politicians to cut the crap & cough up the dosh Please retweet - EVERYONE needs healthy rivers #RescueBritainsRivers
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RiverActionUK
1 year
📢Our rivers are in CRISIS. EVERY SINGLE river in England is polluted beyond legal limits. Will you give rivers your voice and help us to #RescueBritainsRivers ? Sign our new petition calling on all politicians to restore our rivers to health by 2030 🌊 👉
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James Wallace
3 months
New Env Sec @SteveReedMP commits to get tough on water companies The #WaterBill is showing hopeful signs of baby teeth for new regulation But we need sharpened gnashers with a steel grip to end the sewage scandal Time to reform @EnvAgency & @Ofwat
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James Wallace
1 year
Water companies like @thameswater must apologise for destroying our rivers & risking our water security Government must apologise for allowing this disgraceful profiteering on the back of deregulation Customers & rivers before corporate greed!! @BBCBreakfast @RiverActionUK
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BBC Breakfast
1 year
'Any investment pumped in now should come from the company itself' James Wallace from River Action UK spoke to Tina & Ben on #BBCBreakfast as bosses of Thames Water are questioned by MPs over sewage and debt
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James Wallace
11 months
Dear @RishiSunak and your friends at @bp_plc @Shell @exxonmobil Not feeling sufficiently moved by young people facing the #climate catastrophe? @louisehmusic might open your heart a little @JustStop_Oil @ExtinctionR @DaleVince @ChrisGPackham
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James Wallace
9 months
Bored of locking up peaceful climate protesters, Government is getting tough Banning bonuses for sewage CEOs committing serious crimes What next? Stopping Prime Ministers using private jets for telling porky pies? 1 law for them another for us @Feargal_Sharkey @carolvorders
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Defra UK
9 months
Ofwat will consult on banning bonuses for water company bosses if a company has committed serious criminal breaches. With @Ofwat , we're holding water companies to account. If taken forward, this will apply to all executive board members and CEOs.
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James Wallace
7 months
@thameswater @VinaigretteGirl MORE LIES: @thameswater says it hasnt discharged raw sewage near Fiddler's Island (NW of Oxford) for 'quite some time' Church Hanborough & Combe are discharging RIGHT NOW; 4 nearest outfalls discharged 5108 hours in 6 months!!!! Whole #Thames catchment is flooded with their💩
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James Wallace
4 months
Polluters @thameswater publish E.coli data before Regatta: claiming water quality is good TRUTH - No testing on rowing course - Last published test 22/5, 10 days before racing - 4 out of 18 tests above safe levels - over 10% above 900CFU so - @EnvAgency rating poor NOT good 🧵
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James Wallace
11 months
How long can the #Wye cope with such negligent farming? A bit of rain and the topsoil and nutrients wash away To starve salmon of oxygen another day
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Emma Robertshaw
11 months
Shocking scenes today as the road that runs through the ‘Golden’ Valley, Herefordshire, is awash with red water as soil runs off fields and is swept down into the River Dore below - and on into the River Wye ⁦ @EnvAgency #SaveTheWye @FriendsUpperWye ⁩ ⁦ @of_wye
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James Wallace
7 months
Even water industry investors are fed up with Government delaying cleaning up the sewage crisis in our rivers & seas Imagine if all those investors demanded water companies put people & planet before profits?! @watermagtweets @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @WindrushWasp
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James Wallace
7 months
What happens when you combine a mission to #RescueBritainsRivers with talented @RiverActionUK Chloe Peck & WHO approved citizen science?🧪 Verifiable EVIDENCE @thameswater sewage💩 is spreading dangerous E.coli🦠 @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveBackshall @ChrisGPackham @GreenJennyJones
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RiverActionUK
7 months
Our brilliant Communities Coordinator, Chloe Peck, has been conducting extensive testing near @FulhamReachBC in the lead-up to the Oxford v Cambridge boat race this weekend. 🚣‍♀️ The results? 👉 10 TIMES more E.coli than safe to bathe in 💩🦠🤢 @SkyNews #SewageScandal
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James Wallace
8 months
📢 @defra spin £180m customer bill increase as investment from polluting Water Companies E.g. @AnglianWater make customers pay £50m fixing their 💩 AFTER giving over £1 BILLION to investors in 2023 When will @Ofwat & @EnvAgency REGULATE? @LBCNews @azizlisa @Feargal_Sharkey
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RiverActionUK
8 months
“The £180m is being brought forward as a form of funding by the water companies. But it's actually being paid for by us [the bill payers] to clean up their mess" Our CEO, @jaowallace , calling out this morning's announcement that WCs are to invest £180m to tackle sewage spills👇
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James Wallace
7 months
Deluge of cocaine & contraceptive pills from sewage spills & treated effluent are poisoning UK wildlife Brilliantly exposed by @DrAlexFord on @GMB It’s not enough that water companies 💩in our rivers & seas but they inject them with a cocktail of chemicals & pathogens too
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Good Morning Britain
7 months
'Every single marine species that we've looked at so far is full of cocaine.' - Professor Alex Ford Figures are expected to show last year was the worst for sewage spills in England since monitoring began.
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James Wallace
3 years
Last night's #beaver viewing at Cornwall Beaver Project. A confident youngster out for breakfast. What a beauty! @BeaverTrust @CornwallBeaver @CwallWildlife
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James Wallace
11 months
SHOCKING: @SteveBarclay gifts new powers to @EnvAgency to spank water company CEOs with a dead fish "Threatening the naughty step just doesn't work. It's time for corporate punishment... and no the EA can't have any more pocket money to enforce the law." @Feargal_Sharkey
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Steve Barclay
11 months
I also wrote to the Environment Agency, welcoming the working relationship we have established and setting out my expectation to hold the sector to account.   The Environment Agency now has new powers to deliver more penalties to help them take action against polluters.   🧵 2/2
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James Wallace
1 year
@MichaelRosenYes @NHSEngland @BenGoldsmith @DrAmirKhanGP @DoctorsXr @DrRitaIssa @drbobgill @SholaMos1 @drbenwhite @JujuliaGrace @DoubleDownNews Thank you for your interest, Michael. Becca was a quiet & gentle soul who never sought sympathy or attention from others but in death she wanted me to speak out after she left us. Sadly, as you will see in my article, our experience as a family is all too common & easily avoided.
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James Wallace
4 years
#beaver knawed driftwood from North America found by #Beachcomber @peediepuss on Orkney last night on #BBCWinterwatch @BBCSpringwatch Imagine: beaver in Canada fells a tree, eats the bark, builds a dam with the stick, the dam bursts, washes downriver, 4000 miles across the sea.
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James Wallace
1 year
@SteveReedMP at #LPC23 “Without nature we have no economy, no society, no food, no health. Labour will have a manifesto that will not just protect but restore nature.” Great. Now let’s see the detail. The NGO community looks forward to helping you. Wild Live @WildlifeTrusts
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James Wallace
4 years
@RiverActionUK campaign launches today! Delighted to join @GeorgeMonbiot @RichardHRBenyon @Feargal_Sharkey @BenGoldsmith on the advisory board helping major agricultural suppliers & producers to clean up their act & our rivers. Find out more here 👉
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James Wallace
29 days
Dear parents, sons, daughters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins Join @MarchforWater on 3rd Nov to ask @SteveReedMP to put children like @BenjaminFallow before corporations like @thameswater Enforce the law, reform regulators, end pollution for profit #FloodTheStreets
@BenjaminFallow
Benjamin Fallow
30 days
March for Clean Water 💚💦  ‘I love being on the water, but at the moment every single river is polluted. We’re asking the government to end the poisoning of our rivers, lakes and seas.’ Come and join us on the 3rd of November! 🙏 @MarchforWater @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey
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