Laurie Dunkin Wedd

“Rainwater harvesting.”

True. ☹️

Electric police car. ✅✅✅

Well done by my union. Good call.
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There’s something in the air in South Portland, Maine (and it’s not good) - The Boston Globe Residents of South Portland, Maine, are concerned about high levels of benzene, a carcinogen, measured near petroleum storage tanks in close proximity to their homes.

One more reason to phase out fossil fuels. Benzene.

"Now the first answers are in, thanks to a year of emissions monitoring along the fence lines of the city’s tank farms. At two of those locations, the results showed levels of benzene — a known carcinogen — well above the state’s limit."

Imagine for a moment that an Iranian missile strike had butchered 160 Israeli or US schoolgirls.

It’s be front page news worldwide, we’d see pics of the kids, interviews with their distraught parents etc.

But when innocent victims of US mass murder are “only” Iranian, whoopsies, accidents happen!

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

What Nigel Farage and Reform UK ignore about net zero ⬇️

🚨 Reaching the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock.

💰 And it will bring health, economic and security benefits.

I only managed 500 litres of waterbutts. If I had my time again, I’d have a proper system. ☹️

Scientists have identified several ominous 'red flags' about key ocean current

Study author stresses that this doesn't necessarily mean that AMOC is about to collapse, but it's an indicator that human activity may already be pushing the weakening AMOC closer to collapse

Main companies involved in the UK carbon capture and storage (CCS):

• BP
• Equinor
• Eni
• National Grid
• Shell
• Essar Energy
• Progressive Energy
• Cadent

These firms are involved in the HyNet and East Coast Cluster CCS projects, which are expected to receive most of the UK’s £20bn+ support.

Of course, the guards *could* all go to sleep at exactly the same moment all the CCTV fails so that he could - checks notes; ah, yes - throw himself off the top bunk to certain death. Nothing fishy about that.

Can’t fool me.
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Ah, yes. The cost of NOT doing net zero. Looking forward to reading a Daily Telegraph article about that…

“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.

No no no, the EU is dependent on the UK for its security. As proven just now when Cyprus, under attack because it has a UK military base, had to rely on the * checks notes * "opportunistic" French sending their frigate Languedoc to help defend it, and a whole taskforce on top.

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US soldiers loading bombs onto their aircraft at bases in England.

The UK is at war with Iran helping commit more War Crimes.

We need a Government like Spain that is strong enough to say no to Donald Trump.

Deborah Mattinson points to the growing momentum behind assisted dying:

Jersey legalised it last week.
The Welsh parliament backed it.
MPs have voted for it twice.
And 79% of the British public support choice.

The direction of travel is clear.
A handful of Lords must not stand in the way.

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SAY IT WITH US. DEFEND JURY TRIALS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Labour's attempt to remove our right to a jury trial in thousands of cases - including protest related offences - is a serious attack on our civil liberties.

That's why the Green MPs have tabled an amendment to reject it.

The Green Party says no to Labour's toolkit for tyrants.

Image is a screenshot of a reasoned amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill. It is signed by Siân Berry, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer, Dr Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. It reads: That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Courts and Tribunals Bill because it is an inadequate and dangerous response to the challenges faced by the courts; it does not provide the correct solutions to the chronic backlog of cases in the Crown Court; it would not address the long-term underfunding that has led to the degradation of court systems, infrastructure and buildings; it would limit the crucial civil liberty and constitutional protection of trial by a jury of one’s own peers by removing defendants’ right to elect the Crown Court for all triable either-way offences; this change would cover a range of protest-related offences, and because protest rights and free speech, which act as safeguards against authoritarianism, have already been eroded by this Government and should not be limited further; jury trials build public trust and confidence in the courts and act as a space of shared civic responsibility that builds social cohesion; more effective interventions could be implemented that do not roll back fundamental rights, including expanding the use of ‘blitz courts’, increasing the number of sitting days, removing from the system cases that are no longer in the public interest to prosecute, increasing investment in legal aid, improving court case management technology, and bringing in more efficient processes to ensure defendants are brought to court and to the dock on time; and removing rights to judgment by one’s own peers may have the unintended consequence of increasing court backlogs through a rise in appeals.

🚨We have tabled an amendment to reject the Government’s sinister attempt to remove jury trials including for many protest related offences.

Our civil liberties have already been eroded by this Govt and should not be limited any further.

Greens are standing up against Labour's toolkit for tyrants.

"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.

I don’t pay a penny to fuel my car except on long-distance journeys. bsky.app/profile/ldw1...

"These changes in energy prices are not hitting EV drivers"

ECIU's @colin-walker.bsky.social on LBC Radio explaining why oil volatility means the UK's 1.8M EV drivers are more insulated from price shocks

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Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict

“Nobody can claim to want the end of the Islamic republic more than we do. But attacking the country in this way will have the opposite effect. It will entrench the authoritarians and give life to the fiction that has sustained them internally for decades:.. “ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Crucial for this finding is the relative efficiency of electrical over combustion technology - efficiency is the key to energy security. And that is why a transport system based on car dependency is a deeper cause of energy insecurity.

So a single solar panel produces about *100 times more useful energy* than a tank of petrol.

Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil.

A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.

How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?

Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.

By blocking Chevening scholars from coming to the UK the Home Secretary has officially put paid to any arguments that her hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies are anything other than right wing xenophobia. These are the best and the brightest, and she is blocking them.