11 May 2021
New Environment Bill provisions to tackle storm overflows – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The Environment Bill will include new legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers and help protect our waterways. Three new measures on storm overflows, announced last month by Defra, will be added by government amendment to the Environment Bill later this year. The Bill […]
11 May 2021
From Wildlife and Countryside Link Evidence of the harms caused by lead ammunition continues to grow – high mortality amongst waterbirds, weakened immunity for other species, cognitive impairment for children; all can be traced back to lead entering the food chain from the use of lead shot. With a five-year voluntary phase out from the shooting […]
11 May 2021
Article by Alastair Chisholm, Director of Policy As tactics go, talking our way to keeping global heating within 1.5oC of pre-industrial levels isn’t one we should be betting our (overheating, increasingly flood-prone) houses on. Yet that’s what we’re effectively doing in the run-up to COP26, Climate Change Committee (CCC) Chief Executive Chris Stark told an […]
11 May 2021
From the Guardian Plans to build an energy-hungry desalination plant in the New Forest national park to provide drinking water for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been condemned by campaigners including the broadcaster Chris Packham. Southern Water’s proposal for a £600m plant at Fawley to convert saltwater from the Solent into tap water during droughts […]
11 May 2021
From the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) A review of around 100 scientific publications concludes that eutrophication significantly increases greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters (CO2, methane, N2O). An increase of 5 µg/l of chlorophyll-a in lakes and reservoirs worldwide would result in an increase of GHG emissions equivalent to >6% of fossil fuel CO2. The […]
11 May 2021
The Brexit fisheries dispute between Jersey and French fishermen, and UK and French Government is the latest in what is a growing list of post Brexit issues for UK and fisheries interests. A pattern is emerging of promises broken and consequences that were predicted. Guardian ‘France threatens to cut off power to Jersey in post-Brexit […]
11 May 2021
BBC ‘The Queen’s Speech looks likely to set out an ambitious programme of legislation including the much-delayed Environment Bill on post-Brexit rules for protecting nature, and the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which sparked protests when it was debated by MPs earlier this year.’ It is the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill that is aimed at curbing […]
11 May 2021
Welsh Fishermen’s Association manifesto WFA-CPC campaign ‘Sea Our Future’ Ahead of the Senedd election on the 6th May, the WFA has published its vision document, Sea Our Future, explaining who, what and how the WFA and its constituent fishermen’s associations work with fisheries managers, nature conservation bodies and others to aim for sustainable and profitable fisheries. […]
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