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Steve Bungay
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Senior Partner at AD Ingenuity LLP.
Wastewater and anaerobic digestion specialist, who talks about water quality, wastewater, sludge, biosolids, methane and biogas, and can be found cycling slowly around Hampshire and Berkshire.
www.adingenuity.co.uk
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They become instead another toxic disposal problem. Industrial fish farming is bad enough in coastal areas, in the middle of England, next to a river that already struggles with pollution - it’s an obscene idea, a pursuit of profit over all other considerations and Wiltshire Council needs to stop it
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

- The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

#farming
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Lough Neagh and its one out-flowing river, the Bann (pictured), are a warning of where Ireland's water bodies are headed without action on excess nutrients: beautifully rich ecosystems turned into slimey, dying, stinking, open sewers.

All so a few people can make money pumping out livestock shit.
August 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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🚨 BREAKING! Plans for a 32,000 bird megafarm on the River Kennet have been REJECTED by West Berkshire Council 🥂🥳

Huge congratulations to the local community who fought tirelessly to protect this precious chalk stream. 🙌

Read the full story here 👉 riveractionuk.com/news/megafar...
Plans for 32,000-bird “Megafarm” on the River Kennet Rejected - River Action UK
Berkshire factory farm plans rejected in win for river campaigners   A major win for river campaigners has been secured in Berkshire. Plans for a 32,000-bird egg production unit near Marsh Benham, clo...
riveractionuk.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I'll be there, September 7th.
www.tourde4.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I will be talking about residual biogas and process emissions at the IChemE Future Water Treatment Conference in September.

www.icheme.org/training-eve...

I will be talking in the Wastewater Treatment Process Emissions session.

#processemissions #biogas #methane #anaerobicdigestion
August 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Looks like Southern Water are getting in the queue behind Thames Water.
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Dr. Kris Hansen, analytical chemist whose 1990s work at 3M was profiled in Propublica/New Yorker, has started "Kris Hansen's PFAS Journal," a Substack newsletter about PFAS contamination and industry's manufacture of doubt. Check it out!

kris434.substack.com/p/kris-hanse...
Kris Hansen's PFAS Journal
Applying my experiences as a 3M scientist to illustrate industries' efforts to manufacture doubt about global PFAS contamination.
kris434.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Worse still, Drax claims the trees arrive in Britain entirely carbon free, and burning them makes ‘green’ - who are they kidding? Perhaps the biggest greenwash Britain has ever suffered. Time to end it.
June 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The report identifies problems with “pollution, financial difficulties, mismanagement [and] infrastructure failures".
And the recommendation is to…improve regulation.
Surely the solution is to improve the sector, not the regulation of a sector that is broken.
BREAKING: The water sector in England and Wales is failing and needs stronger regulation to better protect billpayers and the environment, according to the interim findings of a landmark review

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, review says
The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in the water industry.
www.bbc.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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U.S. methane gas can never meet the EU methane rules especially with Trump removing regulations. Everybody knew that. So...

The EU has decided to create some loopholes that will make dirty US LNG appear clean.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Exclusive: EU explores tweaking methane rules for US gas to help trade talks, sources say
The European Union is looking at ways to make it easier for U.S. gas exports to comply with its methane emissions rules, as the bloc attempts to avert a trade war with U.S. President Trump, three sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Tories tutted, but did not deny.
"She is in the pay of the climate deniers in Tufton Street."

@greenjennyjones.bsky.social calls out Kemi Badenoch's abandonment of Net Zero policies immediately after receiving donations from climate science deniers.
April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News
Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”
insideclimatenews.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Agricultural biologist, Jeff Waage, discusses bringing science into policy & recognising the problem in #ScientistsOnSurvival 🧑‍🔬

Discover other compelling stories from #ScientistsForXR, available for pre-order: buff.ly/FD3Arxy

Video credits: @peteknapp.bsky.social
#BookSky
March 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Last year we wrote about what this means in the oilfields.

"...emissions of methane that had negative economic value at the time. It was cheaper for the companies to vent it than sell it. That means we all end up paying the cost for their pollution."
We Can Solve Climate’s Methane Crisis—And Without New Satellites or Regulations
New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction
www.scientificamerican.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Wes Streeting a plan for NHS England so obviously intended to prepare it for sale that he might as well have called in Goldman Sachs to deliver it. In that case, what is the remaining point of Labour?

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
What is the role for Labour now that it is so obviously the Tory party?
Wes Streeting, Labour’s health minister, whose remit only effectively extends to England, said last night that the NHS was full of brilliant people who were set up to fail. He used this claim to just...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM