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Jenny Shepherd

@green--jenny

Biocentric and social/economic justice campaigns in Calderdale, West Yorkshire

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Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Says Iran War ‘Very Complete’ Oil futures, which surged as much as 31% Sunday night to more than $100 a barrel, have tumbled back down, a stunning reversal that gained momentum after President Trump told CBS that the war he launch...

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we’ve learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can’t endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

09.03.2026 20:58 👍 271 🔁 65 💬 13 📌 11

The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.

10.03.2026 15:22 👍 279 🔁 130 💬 20 📌 5
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

10.03.2026 15:26 👍 353 🔁 106 💬 0 📌 12
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Calderdale Energy Park Land Description notices on Lancashire Moor Road, Trawden Calderdale Energy Park Land Description notices have appeared on Lancashire Moor Road, Trawden and other nearby roads. They are to notify anyone with an interest in unregistered parcels of land tha…

#PendleDistrictCouncil #LaneshawBridge #Trawden saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/c...

09.03.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Europe DONE With US Tech - Palantir CRASHES After Swiss Army Says NO
Europe DONE With US Tech - Palantir CRASHES After Swiss Army Says NO YouTube video by House of El

It's time for the UK government to expell security risk Palantir from all departments. The Swiss lead the way.
youtube.com/watch?v=R5UM...

08.03.2026 21:53 👍 20 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0

The natural finance racket

08.03.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pro growth rhetoric claiming to care about our suffering natural world 🦔 Britain Remade is a Tufton Street adjacent think tank that promotes building unfettered by environmental legislation

07.03.2026 11:49 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?

Great!!

Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 06:45 👍 267 🔁 53 💬 15 📌 1

It was wonderful to host you @guys hrubsole.bsky.social , and such a terrific talk and provocative discussion on a topic not talked about enough (until you began writing about it)

The talk will be listed on our YouTube, alongside our amazing library of previous talks

youtube.com/@oxfordnatur...

07.03.2026 11:19 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Yorkshire Dales sheep and cattle swap boosts biodiversity - studies Natural England began switching to cattle grazing at its Ingleborough site in the Dales in 2004.

Researchers found that replacing sheep with cattle at a site in the Yorkshire Dales - as part of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Wild Ingleborough project - saw plant diversity increase by more than 40% and the number of butterflies increased.

More of this sort of thing.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.03.2026 07:02 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

It looks fine, it's clear and easily readable.

07.03.2026 01:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#WalshawMoorEstate is a case in point saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/w...

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Walshaw Moor Estate owner agrees land sale to property management company, if planning permission’s granted for huge wind farm on SSSI This is Ban the Burn!’s initial response on 18th October 2023 to news of the proposed Calderdale Windfarm, which we posted at the time on the Turning Calderdale Green blog. We’ve repost…

#WalshawMoorEstate is a case in point saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/w...

06.03.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking forward to hosting @guyshrubsole.bsky.social today 415 pm to explore this history of land ownership in England and its role in nature loss and recovery. In person and online - all welcome !

06.03.2026 11:24 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
RSPB slams Labour government and supports OEP (Mark Avery wonders what the Greens would do) – Mark Avery

Office for Environmental Protection & RSPB on one side - Defra on the other. Who do you trust in a disagreement about wildlife protection? markavery.info/2026/03/03/r...

Rachel Reeves briefly channeled Hannah the Plumber in Spring Statement but what wd Greens do if they had power? We don't know.

03.03.2026 15:24 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

@joshfg.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @chrishinchliff.bsky.social @marycreagh.bsky.social @katedeardenmp.bsky.social @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social

06.03.2026 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Contentious (to the point of being hopeless IMHO) proposal for Calderdale Energy 'Park' gets pushbacks from @calderdale.bsky.social on detail, timing & consultation period markavery.info/2026/03/04/c...

Planning Authority doing its job.👍

#turbines #walshaw #peat #floods #climate

04.03.2026 13:10 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost | Ben Connah It’s not a question of if, but when, another pandemic hits Britain. We owe it to all those who suffered to make sure mistakes are not repeated, says Ben Connah, secretary of the UK Covid-19 inquiry

'The.. truth about inquiries..is their recommendations have rarely been implemented in full. Governments.. receive the findings and then..implementation is deferred.

[We expect] the full implementation of all the #Covid Inquiry’s recommendations.'

#LongCovid

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.03.2026 16:39 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

@joshfg.bsky.social @leedskonp.eurosky.social @zedwally.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @vegplotter.com

05.03.2026 16:56 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Patients - Say No to Palantir in the NHS! Are you an NHS patient in West Yorkshire? If so, did you know that NHS England's Federated Data Platform (FDP), is being run by the private US tech company, Palantir? The FDP is software that tak...

#WestYorkshire #NHS patients, please sign and share this petition to WY Integrated Care Board actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

05.03.2026 16:52 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Patients - Say No to Palantir in the NHS! Are you an NHS patient in West Yorkshire? If so, did you know that NHS England's Federated Data Platform (FDP), is being run by the private US tech company, Palantir? The FDP is software that tak...

#WestYorkshire #NHS patients, please sign and share this petition to WY Integrated Care Board actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

05.03.2026 16:52 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Full room for tonight's event on #PFAS and affected communities.

Renew MEP Martin Hojsík recalls EEA "Late lessons from early warnings" reports. Health impacts are felt over several generations.

Action is taking too long. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu A full ban on PFAS now!

#ForeverChemicals

05.03.2026 16:45 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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Patients - Say No to Palantir in the NHS! Are you an NHS patient in West Yorkshire? If so, did you know that NHS England's Federated Data Platform (FDP), is being run by the private US tech company, Palantir? The FDP is software that tak...

#WestYorkshire #NHS patients say #NoPalantirInTheNHS - if you're a WY NHS patient please sign and share this petition!! We'll deliver it to WestYorkshire Integrated Care Board at their March 24th meeting in Huddersfield actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

02.03.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“In the first week of March the wind blows hard, swaying the reeds and bushes and bending the big trees beyond the lake to its cold breath.”

The first page of ‘What to Look for in Spring”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson

01.03.2026 19:59 👍 326 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 2
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Save And Restore Walshaw Moor Blanket bog is irreplaceable - No windfarms on peatland

@commonseac.parliament.uk What is your Non-inquiry session
Peatlands: natural and environmental benefits and impacts? And can SaveRestoreWalshawMoor send evidence? saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com

01.03.2026 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yesterday, we heard @richardbenwell.bsky.social, CEO of @wclnews.bsky.social, explain how farming is expected to lead nature recovery, but that the Government support needed isn’t there 👇

22.01.2026 14:21 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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"It’s critical that we really consider what the impacts of data centres will be before we charge into approving them en masse" ~ @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social

We've launched an inquiry into data centres 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/9651/ri...

27.02.2026 09:07 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Nobody will notice this story because of Trump attacking Iran, but...

28.02.2026 18:25 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

28.02.2026 18:41 👍 2188 🔁 977 💬 149 📌 55
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani & • 1h
Today's military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians.
Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city
- you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani & • 1h Today's military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city - you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

28.02.2026 18:40 👍 441 🔁 142 💬 17 📌 9