21 Oct 2020
A group of water companies have pledged to invest millions of pounds to protect the country’s chalk streams by reducing the amount of water they abstract from them for public drinking supply and cutting pollution. The pledge was made at an online Chalk Stream Summit organised by the Chalk Rivers Action Group (CRAG) and attended […]
21 Oct 2020
Ian McAulay, CEO of Southern Water, has expressed the company’s disappointment with its fall in the ratings in the Environment Agency’s annual report on the environmental performance of the nine water and sewerage companies in England released this week. The recent EA report shows four out of the nine companies are falling short of expected standards – […]
21 Oct 2020
Wettest Day Saturday 3 October 2020 is now the wettest day on record since 1891 for UK-wide rainfall. It received the greatest rainfall in any single day averaged out across the UK, beating the previous record on the 25 August 1986. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre. […]
20 Oct 2020
The NGOs have been scathing in their response to the recent developments with the Fisheries Bill; this theme has been picked up by the Guardian and Independent. Fisheries Bill – Guardian Commentary Independent: ‘UK’s post-Brexit fishing protections ‘pitifully weak’, warn conservationists Rhetoric that government will develop gold standard fisheries is ‘a joke’, campaigners say Conservation […]
20 Oct 2020
At the ‘Flood and Coast– Creating climate resilient places’ online conference recently hosted by CIWEM, Minister Pow made references to the: Need for a more integrated and adaptive, place based approach to deliver multiple benefits Government’s £200m fund to drive innovation at a local level Environment Agency’s Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Strategy as the […]
20 Oct 2020
How the UK will uphold environmental standards from 1 January 2021. These include standards in waste, air quality, water, and protection of habitats and species. Defra What will stay the same The UK government is committed to maintaining environmental standards and international obligations from 1 January 2021. The UK will continue its aim set out […]
20 Oct 2020
Package of consultations launched seeking views on opportunities for the fishing industry New proposals seek to ensure more catch is landed in the UK. The government is seeking views on new measures to boost our fishing industry, including how to fairly distribute the new opportunities from leaving the Common Fisheries Policy, and increase the economic […]
20 Oct 2020
Defra seeks views on expanding use of monitoring technology on fishing boats Government to examine roll out of Remote Electronic Monitoring on fishing vessels. Today (Monday 19 October) the Government has opened a call for evidence to examine whether monitoring technology could be used more widely on fishing boats operating in English waters to help support the […]
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