Howard Taylor
@Upstreamdry
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Finest chalk stream fly fishing. owner upstreamdryfly. Conservation Biologist. Fly fishing guide. Sage fly fishing. Hunter gatherer, forager, cook and wine-o.
Hampshire, UK
Joined October 2012
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@CHinchliffMP @horton_official Southern Water has put out a statement confirming to Helena Dollimore MP that their wastewater treatment works at Eastbourne was the source. There have been issues known to several authorities there for some years now. Systemic failures. @helenadollimore @Feargal_Sharkey
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Today was a hearing where @SouthernWater apply for a drought order to abstract from the #rivertest to an environmentally damaging level. The images show pollution today into the @rivertest from their outfall at Nursling Industrial Estate. @EnvAgency do nothing!
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This is the Lower river Test, SSSI, SPA, SAC yesterday with #chemcalpollution from the @SouthernWater owned outfall from Nursling Industrial Estate Right in the salmon migration @EnvAgency @AnglingTrust @FishLegal_ @SouthernWater @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @ActivistAnglers
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BREAKING: Court of Appeal judgment handed down today in our nationally important river case with @pickeringfish against @DefraGovUK and @EnvAgency. WE WON (again)! Government's appeal comprehensively dismissed. The ruling sets out exactly what @SteveReedMP needs to do to
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Tomorrow @Jesse_Norman will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the River Wye (Cleaning) Bill. It would require the Secretary of State to publish and implement a plan for cleaning and improving the water quality of the River Wye.
👏 Well done to @Jesse_Norman MP for his bill on cleaning up the Wye in parliament tomorrow! 🌏We need all our MPs to be actively working for the planet and Net Zero
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Great to see our new paper @NatureWaterJnl on the greenwashing and disinformation strategies used by water companies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution covered @ManchesterMill @molssimp — you can download the paper here https://t.co/V7BdhFHZvl
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Sick of the #SewageScandal 💩 I’ll be joining @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones @lizbonnin & thousands of campaigners at the @MarchforWater in London on 3rd November. Take action! Join us! 🫵
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Late summer and autumn Chalk Stream Fly Fishing from Upstream Dry Fly.
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FEARGAL SHARKEY, ANGLING TRUST AMBASSADOR AND ACTIVIST "Right now every angler needs to join the Angling Trust and Fish Legal to get involved in fighting for our waterways. You need to do it... and you need to do it today!" Find out more and join today - https://t.co/e0LgCo3ywH
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I’m so hugely disappointed to read this. For years I felt the conservatives had the best understanding for rural England and those who live and work in the countryside. This beggars belief 🤬
theguardian.com
Campaigners fear growth duty will hamper water regulator’s ability to crack down on companies in poor financial state
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Anglian Water was fined £560K for a serious pollution in 2018. The same year it paid over £1.9 BILLION dividend to shareholders. (Ofwat figures) The fine? 0.03% of the profit the shareholders made while/by the company breaking the law. https://t.co/RPb3WMZHkM
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Why is @Ofwat and the Government afraid to take on Macquarie Bank over the £2Bn Thames Water scam and why let them take over Southern Water? Too big to be investigated? @bbc already did and it's inexcusable that no action was taken. Another cover-up? https://t.co/0zu3dlkxzQ
bbc.co.uk
How the Australian bank Macquarie and its international investors loaded £2bn of debt onto Thames Water.
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"Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company." So not only does the Chinese govt already own a stake in @thameswater it appears two Chinese govt owned banks are about to acquire another chunk. https://t.co/QC9dq51aHR
ft.com
Bank of China and ICBC in a group of four banks behind £190mn loan that matures end of April
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Water companies dump toxic waste into our rivers, lakes and coastal waters on an industrial scale and it’s getting worse. This is a hugely profitable activity because regulation has failed completely. It’s a danger to public health and it degrades precious ecosystems. People are
Swimmers at beaches in England are being exposed to soaring levels of sewage according to a new analysis of official figures. It found that waste was discharged in bathing waters 31,000 times last year, an average of 86 times a day.
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'In the final year of ownership, the Macquarie led consortium shared in a...£157mn windfall as debts rose four-fold to £10bn from £2.3bn. 'The payouts rankled as rates for bill payers surged to pay for fixing faulty pipes & prevent sewage flooding...' https://t.co/XVj2qNotca
telegraph.co.uk
Critics say huge sums that went to investors should have been used to fix infrastructure
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