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November 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies

While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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I was on BBC News talking about the impact of #StormBert on my local community in South #Wales

"It's so important that not only do we phase out fossil fuels, we must actually also massively now invest in climate adaptation... we need to see that from the government right now"
November 25, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Carbon off-setting is also nonsense - the planet doesn't recognise or respond to any of the schemes
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Countries could use nature to ‘cheat’ on net zero targets, scientists warn
By relying on natural carbon sinks such as forests and peatlands to offset emissions, governments can appear closer to goals than they actually are
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:09 PM