Keith Bilverstone
@kbilverstone.bsky.social
East Norfolk birdwatcher, cyclist and photographer. Woodpecker Network volunteer.
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⚠️Read this⚠️
📚Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building Carbon Capture plant
🤔After FT report, Energy department had to confirm in letter to the Public Accounts Committee
💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle...
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
📚Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building Carbon Capture plant
🤔After FT report, Energy department had to confirm in letter to the Public Accounts Committee
💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle...
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Keir Starmer has chosen the wrong hippy to bash
The PM picked a fight with one of the "virtue-signalling zealots" hobbling British growth. There's one small problem.
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
⚠️Read this⚠️
📚Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building Carbon Capture plant
🤔After FT report, Energy department had to confirm in letter to the Public Accounts Committee
💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle...
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
📚Leaked documents show Govt took a £6 billion bet against my legal challenge to start building Carbon Capture plant
🤔After FT report, Energy department had to confirm in letter to the Public Accounts Committee
💥Read more: open.substack.com/pub/marcusle...
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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When you release up to 50 million non-native pheasants into the countryside every year, there are bound to be environmental consequences.
Here's consequence #105 (random number, I haven't actually counted the consequences because I'd lose the will to live).
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/27/t...
Here's consequence #105 (random number, I haven't actually counted the consequences because I'd lose the will to live).
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/27/t...
Ticks found in pheasant-release woods 2.5 times more likely to carry Lyme disease bacteria
Press release from Exeter University (21 April 2025) MORE TICKS CARRY LYME DISEASE BACTERIA IN PHEASANT-RELEASE AREAS Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in area…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
April 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When you release up to 50 million non-native pheasants into the countryside every year, there are bound to be environmental consequences.
Here's consequence #105 (random number, I haven't actually counted the consequences because I'd lose the will to live).
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/27/t...
Here's consequence #105 (random number, I haven't actually counted the consequences because I'd lose the will to live).
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/27/t...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social are you actually surprised!? You’re a bunch of liars and You’ve screwed us all… never have voted for you and never will. Never voted conservative or reform either for the record 👍🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour MPs in despair at voters' verdict on government
Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls for a change of direction after a dismal set of local election results.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social are you actually surprised!? You’re a bunch of liars and You’ve screwed us all… never have voted for you and never will. Never voted conservative or reform either for the record 👍🏻
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@birdguides.bsky.social another day goes by with no notifications… it’s not me!! Please sort it 🙏 This has been an issue since your recent “improvements”…🙄
May 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
@birdguides.bsky.social another day goes by with no notifications… it’s not me!! Please sort it 🙏 This has been an issue since your recent “improvements”…🙄
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This Lesser Spot feeding behaviour is remarkable, not known to us previously.
A fascinating feeding strategy/observation yesterday. This male LSW was systematically removing Wood Ants from the top of an Oak tree in order to get to the aphids they were presumably protecting. Bsky video rendering doesn’t quite do it justice. @lesserspotnet.bsky.social #digiscope #birdsuk
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This Lesser Spot feeding behaviour is remarkable, not known to us previously.
@birdguides any chance you can fix the notifications from your app?? They’ve stopped working. None yesterday and none today so far despite my settings being correct. I’ve logged out and back in, no change.
May 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@birdguides any chance you can fix the notifications from your app?? They’ve stopped working. None yesterday and none today so far despite my settings being correct. I’ve logged out and back in, no change.
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📢 London-based law firms alone racked up $59.84 billion in fossil fuel transactions in just 2024
👉 Ls4Ca released their ‘2025 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard’, analysing the Vault 100’s fossil fuel work
🚨Many lawyers do not want the cognitive dissonance of such work & can refuse it
READ MORE👇
👉 Ls4Ca released their ‘2025 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard’, analysing the Vault 100’s fossil fuel work
🚨Many lawyers do not want the cognitive dissonance of such work & can refuse it
READ MORE👇
BREAKING: @Ls4Ca released their 2025 Law Firm #Climate Change Scorecard. The legal
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
profession is complicit in climate destruction—and young lawyers are fighting back.
A thread with key take-aways & why its findings are so timely. 🧵
Read the report: bit.ly/2025Scorecard
April 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📢 London-based law firms alone racked up $59.84 billion in fossil fuel transactions in just 2024
👉 Ls4Ca released their ‘2025 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard’, analysing the Vault 100’s fossil fuel work
🚨Many lawyers do not want the cognitive dissonance of such work & can refuse it
READ MORE👇
👉 Ls4Ca released their ‘2025 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard’, analysing the Vault 100’s fossil fuel work
🚨Many lawyers do not want the cognitive dissonance of such work & can refuse it
READ MORE👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The driest spring on record EVER and you’re boasting about FLOOD defences!?! When will you wake up to reality!?!
Climate changes isn’t just about flooding… 🙄
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The driest spring on record EVER and you’re boasting about FLOOD defences!?! When will you wake up to reality!?!
Climate changes isn’t just about flooding… 🙄
Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog
The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The driest spring on record EVER and you’re boasting about FLOOD defences!?! When will you wake up to reality!?!
Climate changes isn’t just about flooding… 🙄
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The driest spring on record EVER and you’re boasting about FLOOD defences!?! When will you wake up to reality!?!
Climate changes isn’t just about flooding… 🙄
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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nesting now well advanced, pairs & nest excavations found by volunteers from Devon across to Sussex and North to Shropshire & East Anglia. Thanks everyone a great start. Lots more to be found & monitored for breeding success. (Photo by KB) www.woodpecker-network.org.uk
April 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nesting now well advanced, pairs & nest excavations found by volunteers from Devon across to Sussex and North to Shropshire & East Anglia. Thanks everyone a great start. Lots more to be found & monitored for breeding success. (Photo by KB) www.woodpecker-network.org.uk
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When I tried to discuss this issue here, several forestry folk leapt up to say "it's not like that." One of them starkly misrepresented my position, going so far as to make up quotes to support his claims.
Well it is "like that", and it's a major problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well it is "like that", and it's a major problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
When I tried to discuss this issue here, several forestry folk leapt up to say "it's not like that." One of them starkly misrepresented my position, going so far as to make up quotes to support his claims.
Well it is "like that", and it's a major problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well it is "like that", and it's a major problem. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great (Grate?) Reed Warbler this evening, RSPB Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire. soundcloud.com/user-9092529... #UKBirding #bioacoustics
Great Reed Warbler song
Great Reed Warbler, RSPB Ouse Fen, 28/04/2025
Photo credit: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info
soundcloud.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Great (Grate?) Reed Warbler this evening, RSPB Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire. soundcloud.com/user-9092529... #UKBirding #bioacoustics
After being in hospital Saturday, enjoyed getting out Sunday eve in east Norfolk for a short time: 2 Black Tern, 2 Common Tern, 22 Whimbrel, drake Garganey, White Stork(!), 2 Wood Sands, 2 Ruff and 2 LRP at Cantley and Buckenham. #norfolkbirding #UKbirding
April 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
After being in hospital Saturday, enjoyed getting out Sunday eve in east Norfolk for a short time: 2 Black Tern, 2 Common Tern, 22 Whimbrel, drake Garganey, White Stork(!), 2 Wood Sands, 2 Ruff and 2 LRP at Cantley and Buckenham. #norfolkbirding #UKbirding
@rozfoyer.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s very simple, if you’re born with a penis = you’re a man, if you’re born with a vagina = you’re a woman.
Did you fail biology at school?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s very simple, if you’re born with a penis = you’re a man, if you’re born with a vagina = you’re a woman.
Did you fail biology at school?
Single-sex spaces advice 'problematic', says STUC's Roz Foyer
Roz Foyer, head of the STUC, said she did not agree with the Equalities and Human Rights Commission guidance.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@rozfoyer.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s very simple, if you’re born with a penis = you’re a man, if you’re born with a vagina = you’re a woman.
Did you fail biology at school?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s very simple, if you’re born with a penis = you’re a man, if you’re born with a vagina = you’re a woman.
Did you fail biology at school?
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@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@charliegardner.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
@sioldridge.bsky.social
Lots of embarrassing moments at the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on biomass eg: tinyurl.com/PAC-DRAX-KPMG
Key PAC demand not being reported = Drax release KPMG report
Pls repost below👇👇
@charliegardner.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
@sioldridge.bsky.social
Lots of embarrassing moments at the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on biomass eg: tinyurl.com/PAC-DRAX-KPMG
Key PAC demand not being reported = Drax release KPMG report
Pls repost below👇👇
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@charliegardner.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
@sioldridge.bsky.social
Lots of embarrassing moments at the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on biomass eg: tinyurl.com/PAC-DRAX-KPMG
Key PAC demand not being reported = Drax release KPMG report
Pls repost below👇👇
@charliegardner.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social
@sioldridge.bsky.social
Lots of embarrassing moments at the Public Accounts Committee inquiry on biomass eg: tinyurl.com/PAC-DRAX-KPMG
Key PAC demand not being reported = Drax release KPMG report
Pls repost below👇👇
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Yesterday #Starmer chucks £6bn subsidy at carbon capture👇
Today, PAC MPs call out £6.5bn subsidy for Drax to burn trees tinyurl.com/G-DRAX-1 (report: tinyurl.com/DRAX-PAC)
Not widely reported that MPs demand Drax to release the KPMG report to PAC
@goodlawproject.org
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Today, PAC MPs call out £6.5bn subsidy for Drax to burn trees tinyurl.com/G-DRAX-1 (report: tinyurl.com/DRAX-PAC)
Not widely reported that MPs demand Drax to release the KPMG report to PAC
@goodlawproject.org
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Yesterday #Starmer chucks £6bn subsidy at carbon capture👇
Today, PAC MPs call out £6.5bn subsidy for Drax to burn trees tinyurl.com/G-DRAX-1 (report: tinyurl.com/DRAX-PAC)
Not widely reported that MPs demand Drax to release the KPMG report to PAC
@goodlawproject.org
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
Today, PAC MPs call out £6.5bn subsidy for Drax to burn trees tinyurl.com/G-DRAX-1 (report: tinyurl.com/DRAX-PAC)
Not widely reported that MPs demand Drax to release the KPMG report to PAC
@goodlawproject.org
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
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This is *really* important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it
From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is *really* important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Today #Starmer chucked another £6bn bung (searchforuksubsidies.beis.gov.uk/searchresult...) to fossil fuel companies doing carbon capture (FT: archive.ph/ur2XCL)
Support my case against subsidies for fossil based CCS
@goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @mpwatch.bsky.social
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Support my case against subsidies for fossil based CCS
@goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @mpwatch.bsky.social
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April 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today #Starmer chucked another £6bn bung (searchforuksubsidies.beis.gov.uk/searchresult...) to fossil fuel companies doing carbon capture (FT: archive.ph/ur2XCL)
Support my case against subsidies for fossil based CCS
@goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @mpwatch.bsky.social
👇👇
Support my case against subsidies for fossil based CCS
@goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @mpwatch.bsky.social
👇👇
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*LOOKING FOR OUR PEOPLE*
We want to live in a UK that’s free from a cowardly minority blasting birds out of the sky for so-called “sport”
RT and follow us to join a mass movement to @endbirdshooting.bsky.social
We want to live in a UK that’s free from a cowardly minority blasting birds out of the sky for so-called “sport”
RT and follow us to join a mass movement to @endbirdshooting.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
*LOOKING FOR OUR PEOPLE*
We want to live in a UK that’s free from a cowardly minority blasting birds out of the sky for so-called “sport”
RT and follow us to join a mass movement to @endbirdshooting.bsky.social
We want to live in a UK that’s free from a cowardly minority blasting birds out of the sky for so-called “sport”
RT and follow us to join a mass movement to @endbirdshooting.bsky.social
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Important message from @stopwensumlink.bsky.social
Norfolk Tories are still putting out the myth that the NWL project will continue and they are in discussions with the DfT about it
Basic fact: the project is dead
Second basic fact: nobody is fooled by NCC
@transportaction.bsky.social
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Norfolk Tories are still putting out the myth that the NWL project will continue and they are in discussions with the DfT about it
Basic fact: the project is dead
Second basic fact: nobody is fooled by NCC
@transportaction.bsky.social
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April 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Important message from @stopwensumlink.bsky.social
Norfolk Tories are still putting out the myth that the NWL project will continue and they are in discussions with the DfT about it
Basic fact: the project is dead
Second basic fact: nobody is fooled by NCC
@transportaction.bsky.social
👇👇
Norfolk Tories are still putting out the myth that the NWL project will continue and they are in discussions with the DfT about it
Basic fact: the project is dead
Second basic fact: nobody is fooled by NCC
@transportaction.bsky.social
👇👇
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A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale carbon capture technology -recent studies show the plant’s total emissions would far exceed any carbon stored under the sea
Read more about this second, new challenge to Net Zero Teesside
goodlawproject.org/labour-is-ch...
Read more about this second, new challenge to Net Zero Teesside
goodlawproject.org/labour-is-ch...
Labour is chucking cash at a carbon capture con – so we’re taking action | Good Law Project
A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale technology. But the government’s carbon sums don’t add up.
goodlawproject.org
April 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale carbon capture technology -recent studies show the plant’s total emissions would far exceed any carbon stored under the sea
Read more about this second, new challenge to Net Zero Teesside
goodlawproject.org/labour-is-ch...
Read more about this second, new challenge to Net Zero Teesside
goodlawproject.org/labour-is-ch...
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100,000 signatures! THANK YOU!
100,000 of you have signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
This should result a debate on a ban in parliament!
Don't stop here - every name counts. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
100,000 of you have signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
This should result a debate on a ban in parliament!
Don't stop here - every name counts. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
100,000 signatures! THANK YOU!
100,000 of you have signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
This should result a debate on a ban in parliament!
Don't stop here - every name counts. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
100,000 of you have signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
This should result a debate on a ban in parliament!
Don't stop here - every name counts. Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social unsurprisingly the environment such as TREES store carbon naturally. We don’t need to waste money on unproven pointless technologies - just stop chopping down TREES!!! It’s very, very simple. Man-made “CARBON CAPTURE” is complete nonsense and will never work.
April 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social unsurprisingly the environment such as TREES store carbon naturally. We don’t need to waste money on unproven pointless technologies - just stop chopping down TREES!!! It’s very, very simple. Man-made “CARBON CAPTURE” is complete nonsense and will never work.
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We’re asking people of all birding experience levels across the UK to count birds they see in greenspaces, such as parks, cemeteries and playing fields, to help us gain an understanding of their populations. 📊 Survey methods are flexible too. Find out more and sign up ➡️ bit.ly/birds-greensp...
April 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We’re asking people of all birding experience levels across the UK to count birds they see in greenspaces, such as parks, cemeteries and playing fields, to help us gain an understanding of their populations. 📊 Survey methods are flexible too. Find out more and sign up ➡️ bit.ly/birds-greensp...
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Jeff Bezos has more money than any human could spend - and he’s wasting it on planet-wrecking joy rides to space while people on earth starve.
Why don’t we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the climate crisis?
Why don’t we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the climate crisis?
April 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Jeff Bezos has more money than any human could spend - and he’s wasting it on planet-wrecking joy rides to space while people on earth starve.
Why don’t we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the climate crisis?
Why don’t we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the climate crisis?
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Worth mentioning that the current US administration is actively increasing deforestation/forest degradation on public lands under the false premise of 'wildfire risk reduction'. And abundant evidence shows more commercial logging will only worsen wildfire hazard, not reduce it. 🌏
Stopping deforestation is one of the best ways to help stop climate change. But we don't focus on it nearly enough.
drawdown.org/insights/how...
drawdown.org/insights/how...
How stopping deforestation is a powerful “emergency brake” climate solution
When people think of climate solutions, they often focus on smokestacks, tailpipes, and other artifacts of our fossil-fueled economy. That’s fitting since roughly two-thirds of the world’s greenhouse ...
https://drawdown.org/insights/how-stopping-deforestation-is-a-powerful-“emergency-brake”-climate-solution
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Worth mentioning that the current US administration is actively increasing deforestation/forest degradation on public lands under the false premise of 'wildfire risk reduction'. And abundant evidence shows more commercial logging will only worsen wildfire hazard, not reduce it. 🌏