A busy day today with Channel5News, Sky News, ITV News & Daily Mail Online together with the excellent richard taylor-jones about the “environmental disaster” in Hoad’s Wood.

Take your pick of channel tonight & then sign and share below to push for a clean up NOW! 💚🙏

change.org/rescuehoadswood

Ah yes, it rained and Thames Water 💧 as usual empties the bowels of its sewage system into the nearest river.

Have to say Private Eye Magazine is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏

Where have all the trees gone?🌳❌

This street, like many others in the UK is suffering from the side-effects of off-street parking🚗. There is almost nowhere a tree can now be planted.

The impacts are many: a loss of visual amenity, no shade, suffers worse in heavy rain,…

The bluebell woodland turned 'desolate wasteland' bbc.in/44lojOT

Hoads Wood: The ancient bluebell woodland turned 'desolate wasteland'.

Tap below to read more:
bbc.in/3UzLpOq

Ashford Borough Council say they are 'unable to establish that the issues have crossed the threshold of a statutory nuisance'. If this is acceptable to ashfordcouncil it's open season for fly tipping in Ashford.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Enough is enough - Action is needed to clear Hoad’s Wood.

What is it going to take to clear and restore this site of special scientific interest?

thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/…

Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃

30,000 tonnes of waste illegally dumped on ancient bluebell woodland whilst local authorities turned a blind eye. Please help #RescueHoadsWood . Please sign the petition change.org/rescuehoadswood x #Ashford #Kent 🌳

Calls for Defra UK to clear up ‘environmental disaster’ beauty spot in Kent standard.co.uk/news/environme…

Leachate from illegal landfill sites (like the 27,000 tonnes dumped in Hoad’s Wood, Kent) poses significant environmental & health risks due to its complex composition & ability to pollute waterways.

Here is a short thread on what leachate is, how it forms, and its impacts 🧵/1

Media have picked up issue of Hoad’s Wood this weekend, with stories in Independent, BBC, Standard & elsewhere.

Thread below about leachate from the illegal landfill shows why this is a race against time. Environment Agency must commit to a full clean up NOW

independent.co.uk/climate-change…

The Wye valley needs every piece of nature that grows to suck up the huge quantities of phosphorus dumped into its soils by industrialised livestock farming. Heartbreaking to then read this ⬇️⬇️
Heineken chops down thousands of apple trees in Monmouthshire bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…

Pure vandalism from ⁦Heineken⁩ - why would a felling license not apply to kill so many trees? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Number crunching: Water restoration fund vs water company dividends, from the new Private Eye, out now.

The @EnvAgencyis is refusing to hand over data which could potentially incriminate itself just as much as Southern Water. 👇🤬

Seriously?! Many people reported over July 2023 to January 2024 as 27,000 tonnes of landfill waste were dumped in Hoad’s Wood.

It only got closed once the site was full (& TV cameras turned up). Now its toxic legacy is polluting the environment and the clean up bill is £10m!

But seriously , what has nature ever done for us ? You know , apart from the air we breathe , the food we eat , making us healthier . . .

Brilliant new ad from Zero Hour to promote their Climate & Nature Bill campaign , take action at zerohour.uk

#EarthDay

A recent study shows that young people are pessimistic about the future. Cartoon by Burkhard Mohr: buff.ly/3QdErvV

#future #pessimism #climate #wars