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Tony Bosworth
@tonybosworth.bsky.social
Friends of the Earth climate campaigner, foodbank volunteer, Nottingham Forest fan, cricket watcher, beer drinker, pub quizzer, resident of Saltaire (West Yorkshire).
The UK government is still considering whether to support this project.

It's a carbon timebomb and linked to horrific human rights abuses and accusations of war crimes.

The government must say no.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French energy giant Total faces war crimes allegations over Mozambique massacre
TotalEnergies denies responsibility for the actions of local security forces involved in dozens of killings.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It must be my turn to be prime minister of France soon.
October 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🎊 This week French MPs passed a new law to #BanPFAS in several consumer products.

📢Now, it's the EU's turn to protect people and nature across Europe by taking decisive action to restrict #PFAS in a much wider range of uses.

More in our news story: https://buff.ly/4bb9Vfb

#foreverchemicals
February 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
If anyone needs some good news about Rachel Reeves' expected but depressing announcement about Heathrow yesterday....

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rosebank oilfield decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court
Court of session says UK government go-ahead for Rosebank and Jackdaw permits does not take into account carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My colleague Niall Toru is spot on about the government's attempts to restrict legal challenges

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Bold actions needed from the Prime Minister on #netzero says the Guardian
December 3, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Today's the anniversary of the world's first legally binding climate targets.

🎈Happy sweet 16 to the UK Climate Change Act.

But despite early progress, climate action has stalled - and we're at a crossroads. Action has never been more important.

New video here: youtu.be/gEdsSExUCpI
The British climate plan that (nearly) worked
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Been watching COP29 with grim fascination. It’s like a cross between a fossil fuel trade fair and a gathering of officials whose objective is to avoid committing to a level of climate finance that would leave us with a fighting chance of tackling climate breakdown.

Official FoE view from Mike C:
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 AM
The government is launching the Global Clean Power Alliance to speed up the global transition to clean energy - but it's still considering funding the Mozambique LNG project, a carbon timebomb linked with horrific human rights abuses.
November 20, 2024 at 11:54 AM
It's not just groups like
@friends-earth.bsky.social
who say that the best way to avoid volatile global energy prices pushing up UK domestic bills is to build more renewables - this is respected consultants Cornwall Insight
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
November 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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COMPETITION: I’ve got three copies of Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors to give away.

RT this before 10am on Monday.

I’ll randomly pick three people from the RTs, and I’ll sign and post a book to the winners. Perfect 🎁
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Well said Albanian prime minister Edi Rama at COP 29:
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Huge congratulations to my estimable former colleague
@sarahfinch.bsky.social
on being named one of Time magazine's 100 leaders driving climate action
time.com/7172514/sara...
TIME100 Climate 2024: Sarah Finch
Find out why Sarah Finch made the 2024 TIME100 Climate list
time.com
November 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
The per person cost is more than twice what someone under 25 gets in universal credit for a month. Maybe James Cleverly could donate the equivalent of what was paid for him to a local foodbank?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
James Cleverly spent £655 a head on in-flight catering for one-day trip to Rwanda
FOI request reveals then home secretary spent £9,803.20 on catering for flight to Kigali to sign deportation deal that never deported a single person
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Recent court judgments mean the legal basis for government financing of the Mozambique LNG project is now much weaker and potentially unlawful, says a letter to UKEF from Friends of the Earth's lawyers.

www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
Drop funding for massacre-linked gas project or face legal trouble, UK warned
Campaign group Friends of the Earth warns ministers that continued support for the project would be ‘unlawful.’
www.politico.eu
October 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM
The current government can set right the wrongs of the past administration by refusing to approve UK public funding for this carbon timebomb that’s linked to horrifying atrocities and human rights abuses in #Mozambique
t.co/SRNWOAsXXZ
https://www.politico.eu/article/liz-truss-lobby-uk-role-project-mozambique-massacre-totalenergies/
t.co
October 9, 2024 at 7:47 AM