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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

8 months

Important 2024 dates here to attend an online session with our National Evironmental Regulator @NatResWales Board. Ask a question, give a view on your patch, scrutinise their performance, hold the board to account.

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

Major pollution incident on the Taff at Pontypridd. A known reported problem over years, a main sewer finally bursts & now pours raw sewage, pharma, & PFAS into the river. Negligence, ineptitude or bonus payments at stake? Anyone got a spare “what if” function? @ygcrebelmams

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

7 months

And there we have it, finally @1GarethWynJones welcoming/cheerleading the man whose political values have trashed his business, his home nature & his culture. It's clear, click bait is more important now to this ex “farmer” #utterdisgrace

Bolycs Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@BolycsCymraeg

7 months

Mae'r niwed mae'r Ceidwadwyr wedi neud i'n cymunedau yma yng Nghymru yn anfaddeuol....

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

Anyone else find it odd that the Rivers Trust establishment haven't promoted the BBC @PaulWhitehouse documentary at all. Care to comment @theriverstrust @AfonyddCymru @WUFoundation @WestWalesRT @WelshDeeTrust am I missing something @Feargal_Sharkey

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

4 years

Here is an image of the state of our rivers in Wales. Combined Sewer Outflows. That's right Sewage entering our rivers. Beware anglers, canoeists, swimmers, walkers. Let's get the detail in the open for communities to know. @IoloWilliams2 @CPRW_UK @WGEnviroAgri @Feargal_Sharkey

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

1 year

Door, bolt, horse with images like this, surely!

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

1 year

"Demand for water will outstrip supply say water companies." The next crisis facing the water industry is right there, we are running out of water & I hear that WC's regional water plans aren't worth the paper they're written on. Why am I not surprised.

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

11 months

Not news to us. First highlighted by @BBCPanorama in 2020. Ignored by @DwrCymru Ignored by @NatResWales Ignored by @WGClimateChange Ignored by some eNGOs Not a single prosecution #ineptorcurrupt ? Welsh Water admits illegally spilling sewage for years

Welsh Water admits illegally spilling sewage for years

The company released untreated sewage at dozens of sites, including near a bottlenose dolphin habitat.

www.bbc.co.uk

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

Hey @ofwat @OfwatChiefExec you are being blamed for the @river_usk being sewage trashed by not allowing @DwrCymru to invest in solutions. What you say?

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@wrurestore

1 year

#cutthecrap #SASPaddleout We are not happy @DwrCymru Fix it, where's the plan

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@wrurestore

2 years

In the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tâf catchment we no longer have fish kills cos there are NO FISH. Standard MO for intensive dairy that @NatResWales ignore. The Tâf catchment isn't a sexy one. Sacrificial lamb to placate farming lobby. @AndrewRTDavies lot. What you say? @WGRural @WGClimateChange

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

2 years

"It is understood the water had become polluted due to slurry being sprayed on nearby fields running into the water. A three kilometre stretch of the river... was affected." What was @thetimes saying this morning about farming and slurry? #CleanItUp

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

10 months

All in the wealthiest city in the world. @MayorofLondon needs to take @thameswater through the courts.

Monica Harding MP

@monicabeharding

10 months

#Sewage was dumped into the River Mole, which runs through #EsherAndWalton , 220 times last year. It's happening again today. The Government is doing nothing. The water companies are getting away with it. That's why I'm campaigning for the #SewageScandal to stop. 👇

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@wrurestore

2 years

@GeorgeMonbiot A vision of an industrial processed food system owned by the “usual suspects” doesn’t inspire me. Haven’t read your book yet but will shortly. Do you cover that issue?

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

1 year

To witness extinction of Salmon, Sewin, Trout in Wales don’t walk the main river stems, walk the tribs, streams, brooks, ditches. Damage on an industrial scale. This is where they breed, just 5 months away. NOTHING has changed in these slurry, maize, chemical laden nurseries!

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

8 months

Haha, who knew, Post Office crooked executive bonus payments after doing a Horlicks of a job? #R4Today Now what does that remind us of? Just can't remember! Oh yes these fine upstanding folk. Though they do like to fund Rivers Trusts too. Awe bless them.

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

In Wales @Feargal_Sharkey we have the second worst water company @DwrCymru in the UK for pumping 💩,microplastics, pharmaceuticals,chemicals into our iconic rivers. Collapsed biodiversity recorded over decades. And our regulator does what? @NatResWales talk,talk,talk that’s what

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

2 years

"Filthy raw sewage 'flowing down street' of picture perfect Snowdonia village." Yes, Wales is blighted with this as much as anywhere else. And @NatResWales does what exactly?

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

And who was the SoS for the environment when she boasted of a 34,000 less farm inspections and an 80% reduction in advice to farmers (you know the custodians of the countryside)? @trussliz & her free market Tufton St chums @iealondon #environmentaldestruction

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

2 years

Massive thank you to everyone at @GMB for the opportunity this morning to highlighted the devastation being cause to our rivers and beaches by the water industry and a failed system of regulation. Indebted. @ranvir01 @edballs @Kevin_Maguire @toryboypierce

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

Let’s be clear the need for Citizen Science to perform monitoring of our rivers is an admission of failure of our institutions. There are 100’s of rivers that no citizens are watching. The Tâf catchment for example. Citizens should be thriving in the environment not checking it!

The Rivers Trust

@theriverstrust

2 years

Interesting piece by @Channel4News @clarefallon on the state of our rivers Shows the value of water monitoring by citizen science Emphasises the critical need for tighter regulation by the EA More inspections & stronger enforcement are needed

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

10 months

It seems that acidification is making an impact again in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in the upper Towy & Wye. Given salmon numbers have literally fallen off a cliff in Wales you would think the word “emergency” would be in play more! Any detail? @NatResWales @BenWilsNRW @bettwsresident @SteveOrmerod

watershed_investigations

@WATERSHED_i

10 months

Salmon numbers in free fall in so many UK rivers as fish struggle to survive in a slew of slurry, sewage, antibiotics, chemicals; fight their way over dams, search for food not killed by pesticides, seek cool shade, evade lice & disease from fish farms, & escape overfishing.

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

7 months

I have met all my heros!they haven't disappointed ever! #SaveTheWye Fighting to save our home nature.

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

Care about rivers & biodiversity? Then care how we farm. Pic 1-The Trothy after rain a trib of the Wye Pic 2-A stubble turnip field common throughout the catchment on a slope down to the Trothy. Bye bye soil, salmon left this catchment 40 years ago #potatoes #turnip #chemicals

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

2 years

@Feargal_Sharkey Another example of the “what if” function missing. We now as insurance payers pick up the bill for these poor folk while @thameswater repatriate ROLI ( that’s Return On Lack of Investment) money to Sovereign Wealth Funds in China, Abu Dhabi etc

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

9 months

Oh, how we laughed! If you are serious you’ll take @thameswater into public ownwership now. They are bankrupt. What a signal to “The Market” And as for you @WelshGovernment @WGClimateChange you would do the same with @DwrCymru

Robbie Moore MP

@_RobbieMoore

9 months

💧Those who pollute our rivers will be held to account. @YorkshireWater breached its environmental permit with an unauthorised sewage discharge near Harrogate. Completely Unacceptable. 🟰 £1 Million sanction ➕£1.85 Million sewer upgrade works as part of enforcement. 1/3

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

1 year

@Feargal_Sharkey @HomesEngland @BBCPM The propaganda & excuses being exchanged in this space is staggering The strategy to develop Cambs without a massive investment to manage water is just folly. Even then it might be a nono Classic UK strategy ie None! Here’s the result of the current “strategy” not 🚀🔬 is it!

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

1 year

Slight twist here @AyoCaesar @bbcquestiontime Sovereign Wealth Funds own significant parts of the UK Water industry. Eg. @thameswater is owned by the Chinese & Abu Dhabi State among others. Can’t make it up.

Our structure | Governance and Legal | About Us | Thames Water

Learn more about our ownership structure, external shareholders and where to find the Company's Articles of Association.

www.thameswater.co.uk

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

1 year

“Your water bills are going towards making foreign corporations rich” Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes ‘financial sense’ to renationalise the water industry #bbcqt

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@wrurestore

2 years

The 2021 💩 numbers are out. @DwrCymru dumped raw sewage into Welsh rivers & coasts for a total 889608 hrs an increase of 82096 hrs (10%). Does this register @NatResWales the regulator, @WGClimateChange the legislator,WG Species Champions @huw4ogmore @cefincampbell are you on it?

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

8 months

The worst thing about the Post Office story: THEY KNEW! The evidence of manure, slurry, nutrient & chemical abuse in the environment is in! THEY KNEW! Some Ag, farmers, political & state institutions CHOSE to ignore. We now have the documented evidence! @WATERSHED_i let’s talk!

charles watson

@watsonchas

8 months

Another sordid chapter in of how the Wye - one of our most iconic rivers - has been allowed to die under a flood of chicken sh☠️t… Our investigations reveal how intensive egg farms have drains running from their sheds direct into the river - down which the 💩 of 100s of 1,000s

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WelshRiversUnion🐟🦆🌳

@wrurestore

3 years

Devastating news today of yet another utter failure of regulation and prosecution on the Llynfi, a tributary of the beleaguered Wye. The voice of the Welsh Rivers Trust is silent, I wonder why?👇🏽 @RiverActionUK @uskfriends @FriendsUpperWye @of_wye @Feargal_Sharkey @watsonchas

Afonydd Cymru: The Rivers Trust of Wales

@AfonyddCymru

3 years

Great to meet Clare Pillman of @NatResWales alongside Pete Gough (head of fisheries), with the North Wales & Welsh Dee Rivers Trust to talk about all the issues currently affecting our rivers, the work we are delivering & future funding opportunities

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@wrurestore

1 year

So here we have it, read the comments from @DwrCymru An incredibly dry week in the lower Wye. The below folk should be livid too: @NatResWales @SteveOrmerod @welshecon #Henshaw #Pillman @huw4ogmore @JulieJamesMS It makes you look like fools. Permit detail, where is it?

Save The Wye Coalition

@SaveTheWye

1 year

The River Wye at Redbrook this week. Any comment @DwrCymru ? #sewagescandal #sewage #SaveTheWye

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@wrurestore

1 year

We once had the finest Seatrout /Sewin fishing in Europe! The magnificent Towy, Teifi, Cothi, Dovey etc All collapsed! Met many a Swede, German, Dutchy, American etc on their banks. All gone! Why? #trashedrivers by agriculture & sewage 🙊🙉🙈

Tourism: Overseas visitors to Wales drop by 33% - BBC News

One business owner says the school summer holiday makes up more than half of his turnover.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@wrurestore

1 year

Is the sight of the now rare Wye ranunculus (water crowfoot) wrapped in scum & detritus a metaphor for the dire failure of our politics & regulation of our rivers? Any accountability anywhere? @WGClimateChange @WGRural @NatResWales @DwrCymru @CommonsEAC @DavidTCDavies

Wild on the Wye Angela Jones

@wildwomanwye

1 year

And Still our Wye is Left to Die ! My heart is being ripped out as “scum “suffocates the Nations favourite river @RiverActionUK @AfonyddCymru @EnvAgency @SaveTheWye @bbchw

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@wrurestore

1 year

@RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey @Ofwat @watsonchas @jaowallace @DeborahMeaden @LewisPugh @XRebellionUK @BenGoldsmith @HugoSAS @ChrisGPackham @PaulWhitehouse Don’t trust him, he promised to join his celtic cousins in Wales and run our regulator @NatResWales He then said he would get his cousin Kevin to do it! But you know what he is like!

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@wrurestore

1 year

The Usk has been spewing “foam” for days. We suspect @DwrCymru sewage at Llanfoist Abergavenny. Tell us it's not @turdherder69 What's the Llanfoist EDM been doing?

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

@NatResWales

1 year

@ManofWye @EnvAgency Hello good evening Mr Hickey, Please report this incident to our 24-hour environmental incident report line on 0300 065 3000 where staff will be able to take details needed to look into the incident. Many thanks.

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@wrurestore

10 months

So many questions to ask of the retail supply chain & the destruction caused by some of their primary producers especially dairy in Wales. Happy to give senior supermarkets execs & buyers a tour of the destruction. @waitrose @Tesco @sainsburys @Morrisons @AldiUK A peep!

charles watson

@watsonchas

10 months

.⁦ @waitrose ⁩ cheddar maker repeatedly polluting river.. If a farm is caught deliberately polluting a watercourse 3 times in a row, it should be shut down, not merely fined ⁦ @waitrose ⁩ - stop sponsoring ecocide & get your house in order 😡😡😡

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@wrurestore

1 year

After 10 yrs of failure this NMB talking shop likes to kid itself that they are making progress Success in delivering an action is not the same as success as delivering an outcome Public money for public failure spent on org's Any comment on yr vote @WUFoundation @bettwsresident

Friends of the River Wye

@FriendsUpperWye

1 year

It beggars belief that the same week we find out the @EnvAgency and @NFUtweets agreed a cosy loophole that allowed the unimpeded polluting of our rivers, the same actors vote 7-6 to take the Wye Catchment Nutrient Management Board out of the public eye:

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@wrurestore

2 years

Todays Usk Valley @river_usk trashing 🥵 The idea of any buffering or not planting stubble turnip in such a sensitive environment seems beyond our legislative, funding & regulatory environment. @WGClimateChange @WGRural @BenWilsNRW @NatResWales

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@wrurestore

4 months

The conversion of wild protein, herring, sand eels basically anything from our seas into pellets for this obscene salmon “farming” industry probably sums up our obsession with self destruction better that most. West Africa fisheries & communities have been devasted.

Don Staniford

@TheGAAIA

4 months

"Baltic herring is on the verge of extinction. The problem, they say, is that almost all the herring in the waters near the coast are being scooped up by industrial trawlers so they can be ground up & fed to another famous Scandinavian fish: Norwegian farmed salmon" @Bloomberg

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@wrurestore

8 months

Slurry and Storm Gerrit from our intensive dairy industry combine, just as Salmon and Sewin have bred. You couldn't plan species extinction better! @huw4ogmore @cefincampbell

Steve Atkins

@SteveAphotos

8 months

@wrurestore Like some fresh slurry to go with that this morning of very heavy rainfall?

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@wrurestore

1 year

What a healthy river can look like. Wye 2018 The latest news, destructive pesticide neonicotinoids found in rivers!!! Who knew? If we put neonics on land it will end up in a river!!! 🚀🔬 🙄🤦‍♂️ The WI/IFTTT function seems to have gone AWOL with our environmental regulators.

Alex Peacock

@lobster44

1 year

@WATERSHED_i @of_wye @FriendsUpperWye @wrurestore @bill10brod River Wye below Lucksall Campsite on June 2018. Hope this helps.

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@wrurestore

2 years

Great reporting by @Channel4News again, exposing the utter incompetence of the government to address this. This is their policy (Privatised water companies) they were told this would happen 20 years ago. They ignored it then and then defunded the “mock” regulator. @RiverActionUK

SOS Whitstable

@SOSWhitstable

2 years

No @SallyAnn1066 , you don't know what you voted for. There was ABSOLUTELY ZERO mention of banning sewage overnight, it was "progressive reductions" that you rejected. Another Conservative MP peddling the party lie and her own constituents know it.

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@wrurestore

1 year

Fabulous, so we have a measure, a standard to demand for all of our chalkstream rivers The only question now is: How, what’s the plan, timescale & budget to deliver this If this doesn't exist then it demonstrates a disingenuous relationship with government, regulators & polluters

Mike Blackmore

@Blacky_Himself

1 year

Believe it or not, this ultra clear pool is in an English river! #Rare #ChalkStream #Hope

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@wrurestore

1 year

The Tâf, Usk, Teifi, Towy & others destroyed by intensive dairy @GeorgeMonbiot and it's about to get worse.

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

1 year

Many people are blaming the water companies for this. Yes, they are doing terrible things to our rivers. But human sewage is only the second worst source of river pollution in the UK. The biggest is agriculture. The River Wye has been poisoned mainly by chicken farms.

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@wrurestore

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The usual suspects in the farming dairy sector complaining (whinging) about the Welsh Government Clean Air Act. Why don't they come up with proposals to solve and fund the problems they cause. I can't imagine why, can you?

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@wrurestore

1 year

All these folk say enough is enough @DwrCymru @NatResWales @WGClimateChange We want clean rivers and seas. #dawnstalkers @sascampaigns

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@wrurestore

1 year

You can’t make it up. @DwrCymru execs measure their performance against their peers. What you say ? @JulieJamesMS @JimfromOldham Let’s end this utter corruption with a clear plan to address @WaterUK abuse.

Water bosses handed 'environmental bonuses' in £14.5m pay packets despite 300,000 sewage spills

While much of their pay is not linked to environmental performance at all, water bosses still managed to pick up generous incentives for ecological standards despite relying on discharges to keep...

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@wrurestore

1 year

I know this tributary well it’s physically stunning & in an appalling ecological state Unbridled destructive agriculture over many decades, from spuds, maize & stubble turnip A collapsed salmonoid population completely ignored by our regulator @NatResWales

A key tributary to 'dying' River Wye has pollution levels 175 per cent above official targets

The River Trothy in Wales is beset by phosphate pollution from nearby agriculture, but campaigners say regulators are not being tough enough

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@wrurestore

2 years

Just look at the concern of all of the UK’s MP’s amassed in the mother of parliaments wanting to hold the minister to account for allowing @wateruk to dump💩, pharmaceutical, chemical & plastic laden loads into rivers. Action anyone? Or more hand-wringing

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@wrurestore

6 months

The people of Wales are fed up of paying for this too! @PrifWeinidog @WGRural @WGClimateChange @SeneddClimate

Philip Case

@PhilipCaseFW

6 months

Thousands of Fed-up #Welshfarmers gathering outside the Senedd in #Cardiff for mass peaceful protest against Welsh Labour farming policies which will devastate their livelihoods #NoFarmersNoFood #BackWelshFarming @FarmersWeekly @NFUCymru @FUWpress

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@wrurestore

1 year

Welsh rivers are dying, not bad luck but active policies to make them die. (or gutless lack of policy & regulation) Much handwringing & talk from all & sundry. Serious about saving rivers/biodiversity? @JulieJamesMS @lesley4wrexham @WGClimateChange @WGRural @futuregencymru 1/2

Simon Evans

@bettwsresident

1 year

@DaveThroup @WUFoundation Wonder why the Usk is so brown. There are at least a dozen of these in each of the upper catchments tributaries.

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@wrurestore

1 year

So many rivers in Wales are not SACs or SSSIs & they have been trashed. Can you imagine what the non SAC rivers are like? Denial is a Welsh institutional forte it seems! @NatResWales @WGRural @WGClimateChange @NFUCymru @FUW_UAC RT @RiverActionUK

The 'dead' Pembrokeshire river at the centre of Wales's intensive dairy industry

The small, relatively unknown river is seen by campaigners as emblematic of the damage being wrought by the continued intensification of agricultural practices

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@wrurestore

1 year

You are an intensive dairy business, debted up to the eyeballs Farm-gate milk price collapsing, production & slurry up, losses mounting. Cost saving essential to survive. What's the risk that rivers will take the hit? Is our regulator @NatResWales alert to this? @CommonsWelshAff

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@wrurestore

2 years

Any response @WGClimateChange @NatResWales I used to suggest folk from all over the world visit Wales & our fab nature. No longer, I’m ashamed! @vaughangething & @futuregencymru you need to get onto this shi7show too #economy PFAS seafood anyone?

Two Welsh tourist hotspots named in worst sewage-polluted list | ITV News

New figures revealed that in a single year, waterways had sewage pumped into them for at least 3.4 million hours, which is equivalent to 388 years. | ITV News Wales

www.itv.com

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@wrurestore

2 years

A great first episode. @PaulWhitehouse . I say great, a tragedy really. But the spirit of the fighters you met is uplifting. So many brilliant people fighting and so few powerful polluters. We must win this!

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@wrurestore

1 year

A good summary of the causes of Wye river death from @BBCCountryfile The death of the Wye is a political/economic choice #noplan Why no voices? from: @WGRural @WGClimateChange @JulieJamesMS @pow_rebecca @JonesyFay @DavidTCDavies @Jesse_Norman @JamesEvansMS @PeterFox61

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@wrurestore

2 years

Yup here is an Usk version. On a slope, into Berthin brook that hasn't seen a run of breeding salmon for what? 30 years. What do @NatResWales do? Yep you got it, send a pdf of COGAP fiction.

Amy Slack

@AmySlack_1

2 years

@RiverActionUK & @FriendsUpperWye have been out investigating #RiverWye pollution. This is a classic example of slurry illegally dumped next to the river leaching toxic "consentrated nutrient liquer" into the water. @NatResWales @WelshGovernment what are you doing to stop this?

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@wrurestore

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@faceyrj Richard there is a lovely description of this in the readers digest book of birds.

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@wrurestore

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NOTHING has changed. A decade of Hand-wringing by: @NatResWales @EnvAgency the regulators, @HouseofCommons @SeneddWales the legislators, @Conservatives @WelshLabour the policy shapers. The polluters @AvaraFoods @Cargill @NFUtweets @DwrCymru love it £££

River Wye health status downgraded by Natural England after wildlife review

River’s condition said to be declining as Wildlife Trusts calls for action from government on farming pollution

www.theguardian.com

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@wrurestore

2 years

@Feargal_Sharkey @DefraGovUK Do you mean when @DefraGovUK told the @EnvAgency not to prosecute water and farming interests?

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@wrurestore

11 months

We are about to see this iconic species go extinct on many Welsh rivers. #AtlanticSalmon On your watch ⁦ @CommonsEAC ⁩ ⁦ @RishiSunak ⁩ ⁦ @PrifWeinidog ⁩ ⁦ @theresecoffey ⁩ ⁦ @JulieJamesMS ⁩ ⁦ @huw4ogmore ⁩

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@wrurestore

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So the seeds of destruction sown for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 rivers, & 2025 year cohort of Atlantic Salmon & Sewin @huw4ogmore @cefincampbell Step 1 - spray the hell out the catchment with Glyphosate. Step 2. Plant maize “willy-nilly” for the intensive dairy industry. Step 3. Ignore COGAP

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@wrurestore

2 years

@GeorgeMonbiot Show us the ingredients George. The industrials are gonna love you!

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@wrurestore

2 years

@Feargal_Sharkey @thameswater The victorians planned & invested to see us through a century. @WaterUK companies “plan” to the next CEO bonus round. I have seen this model throughout the private sector & it needs to be addressed by shareholders. In this case THE REGULATOR (EA & NRW) need to. … … REGULATE 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@wrurestore

1 year

Looking forward to meeting @futuregencymru commissioner @derekwalker_ tomorrow with Dr Emma Wiik ( @emma_wiik ) & the magnificent @wildwomanwye . The very existence of healthy Welsh rivers is a future generation issue isn’t it? #failingSACs & #NonSACs Retweet if you agree!

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@wrurestore

8 months

A broken agricultural economic system feeding river & biodiversity destruction in Wales. Maize has been allowed to run riot in Wales, completely the wrong crop for our environment. Rarely any consideration for COGAP to mitigate. We reap what we sow. #RapeOfTheFairCountry again!

Stuart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@stuartpengs

8 months

UK’s equivalent of palm oil. I’ll stick my neck out and say non-under-sown maize is probably the most environmentally damaging crop we currently grow in UK. The soil, and everything applied to it during the growing phase, ending up in our rivers. ☹️

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@wrurestore

2 years

To add to this most of the @DwrCymru coastal monitors have been turned off for “maintenance” 😏 in January. Brilliant strategy to show an improvement. Pay me a bonus says CEO. @RiverActionUK @NatResWales @WelshEcon @huw4ogmore @JulieJamesMS @cefincampbell

Surfers Against Sewage

@sascampaigns

2 years

In the first 31 days of this year, the SSRS recorded 2,884 #sewage alerts in England and Wales. Water companies' investment clearly paying off... 👏 What an absolute shitshow. 🤬

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@wrurestore

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Jeez @BBCr4today @BBCNews “water companies are allowed to dump sewage into our rivers when it's raining” NO NO NO The rules say in “exceptional circumstances” Please up you standards on reporting this utter disaster. Please!

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@wrurestore

3 years

Great profile on BBC Profile. He sings too 😳? Who knew ?🙄

Profile - Feargal Sharkey - BBC Sounds

The former punk rocker taking on the water companies over pollution.

www.bbc.co.uk

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

3 years

Apologies for burdening you all at this time on a Sunday morning but it appears that @BBCRadio4 and lots of my friends have been conspiring behind my back. :) Thank you all so much for such generous, heart-warming and joyous comments. It's all incredibly embarrassing. Big love

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@wrurestore

2 years

We have a memory of this quality of water only 30 years ago of the Wye, Usk, Towy, Teifi, Tâf, Dee. That’s why baselines of restoration need to be defined. Hey @CommonsEAC @WGClimateChange it doesn’t start now. 1970 for us!

charles watson

@watsonchas

2 years

…why we campaign to save our rivers… This is what an unpolluted river looks like: River Ribnik, Bosnia No intensive agri No sewage discharges Treasured & nurtured Highly protected This is what the #riverwye looked like before @AvaraFoods @thenoblefoods @Tesco came along

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@wrurestore

8 months

@Feargal_Sharkey Crisis, what Crisis? Said the @Ofwat CEO

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@wrurestore

2 years

@Haggis_UK Lying to parliament breaks the ministerial code. Again! @LindsayHoyle_MP

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@wrurestore

10 months

We all get the model of holding @Primark @boohoo accountable for their supply chain behaviour & enviro standards. Now it’s time for the milk supply chain to get their act togther. Is this you? @ArlaFoodsUK @Freshways @first_milk @totallywelsh #M üller

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@wrurestore

1 year

This is as powerful as it gets. Speaking truth to power still lives! A broken system, what you say @CommonsEAC Thank you @Feargal_Sharkey @GMB @edballs @susannareid100

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

1 year

'It's pretty damning for everyone involved' @Feargal_Sharkey A new report says water companies have been overly focused on maximising financial returns at the expense of the environment. Recommendations include that bosses should not receive a bonus if the company pollutes.

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@wrurestore

10 months

A 👏👏👏thread 🧵 that demonstrates how broken our system is. The CEO Peter Perry has just been “awarded” a £20k salary increase approved by the mysterious “members”. Bonuses, throughout this period too! Really? @huw4ogmore @DelythJewellAM @LlyrGruffydd @JFinchSaunders

leanahosea

@leanahosea

10 months

Dŵr Cymru boss hits back at criticism that his organisation spilled raw, untreated sewage into the River Teifi over a 3 year period. The discharges were exposed in research by @watervole3 . Prof Hammond described them as the 'worst he'd come across'

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@wrurestore

2 years

We genuinely don’t take a view on the wish to eat this stuff but we do take a view on what @AvaraFoods do with the ultra polluting phosphate laden manure. 20 years of environmental abuse and they are still in denial. The enviro regulator @NatResWales non-existent. #wyedeath

SenseHub™ Poultry

@PoultrySense

2 years

Meet David, site manager at Chaffcombe Farm, Devonshire Poultry. 🐔 David has been able to make transformational changes to the health and welfare of his flocks with the help of Poultry Sense. Check out the video below to hear more 👇 #PoultryTechnology

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@wrurestore

1 year

Voices from a Welsh catchment, including our voice. This one the once magnificent Teifi, a SAC/SSSI, Atlantic Salmon forecast to be extinct within a decade, Sewin not much far behind. On our watch, our choices @WGClimateChange @huw4ogmore @cefincampbell

The river Teifi: How agricultural waste is destroying this Welsh river

In this film, environment reporter Madeleine Cuff travels the length of the river Teifi in Wales to find out some of the issues that waterways like this are facing and what we can do to protect them

www.newscientist.com

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@wrurestore

1 year

Just don't do this on the Teifi, Usk, Taff & many other Welsh rivers as the amount of sewage & chemical dumping by @DwrCymru is some of the highest in the UK for more detail. @PublicHealthW anyone checking e-coli levels in our rivers around popular places?

Top of the Poops | Homepage

Analysing sewage dumps by water companies

top-of-the-poops.org

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

@NatResWales

1 year

Entertaining the kids over #Easter needn’t cost the earth. Visit your local woodland or National Nature Reserve for a day out that’s kind on your pocket. Find walks and cycle trails for little legs, puzzle trails, play areas and ideas for nature play: 👉

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@wrurestore

3 years

This key right here right now story is getting more airtime than ever. Not luck or slow news days but communities and individuals making it happen. Thank you 🙏 @Feargal_Sharkey @RiverActionUK @rivercide_live @FriendsUpperWye @WindrushWasp @PJennings88

BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, Britain's Dirty Rivers

Sewage, chemicals, micro-plastics - how dirty are Britain's rivers? And what can be done?

www.bbc.co.uk

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@wrurestore

8 months

The data analysed here for is between 2017 & 2019. The years 20/21/22/23 anecdotally have been even worse with 24 lining up to be the worse still. Does anyone else think that @NatResWales have no comprehension of what an emergency is? Join the public board meeting on the 2nd Feb

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales

@NatResWales

8 months

We have today published a new evidence report about water quality within Special Area of Conservation (SAC) rivers in Wales

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@wrurestore

7 months

Wild Salmon and sea-trout will be happy too. And what was the scooping up of Sand-eels for? The production of fish pellets for the appalling industrial Salmon farming!

Iolo Williams

@IoloWilliams2

7 months

Great news, but long overdue.

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@wrurestore

1 year

The fab folk at @sewageuk have been burning the midnight oil. What fine folk they are. Well here is the continued nightmare that is @DwrCymru

Top of the Poops | Company | Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

Analysing sewage dumps by water companies

top-of-the-poops.org

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@wrurestore

1 year

£79Bn gone to “investors” like the states of China, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Singapore etc) All the while using the assets & guaranteed income stream to leverage up a debt of £52Bn. A brilliant rip-off for UK water bill payers. That's you and me UK residents.

Prof Jamie Woodward

@Jamie_Woodward_

1 year

We are in the 4th decade of privatisation. What happened to all the cash? Dumping sewage in the environment remains spectacularly profitable. You slashed the @EnvAgency monitoring budget & allowed water companies to self-report sewage dumping. Catastrophic - all on your watch.

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@wrurestore

2 years

Really? “Unobstructed superhighway” for migratory species. Well, apart from the chemical cocktail that’s become a “hoover dam” for them. This gives the impression that the Wye is “nectar” to those who need to act. It’s dying. Call it out, please. Your voice counts.

The Rivers Trust

@theriverstrust

2 years

Well done to the 37.1% of you who said the Wye! Snaking through England and across the border to Wales, the River Wye provides an unobstructed fish super-highway for a number of migrating species including Salmon, Trout and Eels 🐟

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@wrurestore

2 years

This is important please retweet @RiverActionUK @Feargal_Sharkey ++ 🧵. @NatResWales have cancelled the NRW Board Meeting Public Q&A session on Wednesday 13th. You can listen in & connect details beIow I would urge you to connect for just a few mins & leave a message in chat.

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@wrurestore

2 years

No, not unless our rivers are restored. They are near dead! The economic value of say Wye, Usk, Towy, Teifi, Conway, Dovey Dee etc if they were producing the fish of the 1970’s. Tens of million ££. Jobs, hospitality, better land management etc Want to talk about it @BBCWales

BBC Wales News

@BBCWalesNews

2 years

Can Wales emulate Ireland and become a top draw for fishing?

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@wrurestore

1 year

🧵 Starting to analyse the appalling situation of sewage/chemical pollution How S’Wales is not described as an open sewer is beyond us. Each blue dot is a raw sewage/chemical dump into a river or coast Add pollution from “normal” effluent & it spells river & biodiversity death.

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@wrurestore

11 months

FAILURE - the evidence is clear. Corporate corruption: @Cargill knew exactly what they are doing Institutional Failure by: @PowysCC planning @HfdsCouncil planning @NatResWales regulatory failure @WGClimateChange Enviro ministry failure @theresecoffey @EnvAgency COGAP failure

charles watson

@watsonchas

11 months

The collapse of the Atlantic salmon in the Wye, now tragically facing extinction, is just one of a number indicators of the ecological collapse of the UK’s 4th largest river system. @theresecoffey @DefraGovUK since promising a “Plan for the Wye” - total silence Where is it ⁉️

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@wrurestore

2 years

Listening to the media coverage on drought conditions and the reassuring messages they are being told by water companies 🤦‍♂️ about water being taken from ample groundwater sources not rivers. Really? Join the dots @WaterUK

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@wrurestore

3 years

Ah a voice of reason rather than excuses on @BBCr4today this morning 🙏 Mr @Feargal_Sharkey succinct, accurate and clear, unlike our rivers and government MP’s.

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@wrurestore

2 years

What is the solution @NFUCymru @NFUtweets ? For agricultural pollution! Policies anyone? @NatResWales @WGClimateChange Anyone? @WelshConserv @Plaid_Cymru @WelshLibDems @WelshLabour Or is it Dejavu next winter? @RiverActionUK

robert winter

@robertw19215678

2 years

River Teifi clean 3 completed, thanks to all the volunteers, this section was from Porth to bridge so only 500m. Shame to see what has been dumped in the river about 3 tonnes in this section taking us over 10 tones in 3km!! @NatResWales @wrurestore @Feargal_Sharkey #teifi

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@wrurestore

2 years

Welcome to the tale of Welsh rivers too. The £0.41 pint of milk has much to answer for. RIP Tâf, Cowin, Towy, Olway (Usk) and many more. Dairy UK style. Slurry Central. Thanks @ArlaDairyUK @SaputoInc @WGRural @AHDB_Dairy Note: @RiverActionUK @uskfriends

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

2 years

"Major salmon river under threat as agricultural pollution starves fish and plants of oxygen." The River Faughan is where I caught my first trout as a kid using a fly rod and now the river's salmon are being killed by farm pollution. So, so sad.

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@wrurestore

2 years

The utter irony of this corporate message beggars belief! @CommonsEAC From @thameswater CEO. You know the one that represents the interests of the Chinese State, Abu Dhabi State & various Canadian Pension funds. Not TW customers. #shameful

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@wrurestore

2 years

This is criminal @NatResWales ! When I say criminal it’s not a euphemism! You are failing in your statutory duties in protecting SAC’s across Wales. You should be taken to court! @theipaper @WGClimateChange @futuregencymru @RiverActionUK @WildFishCons @GoodLawProject

robert winter

@robertw19215678

2 years

Last week NRW attended site visit and said they couldnt see anything....is this any better? There was nearly 100 dead, Teifi, Llandysul. @wrurestore @Feargal_Sharkey @CambrianFelixN @DwrCymru #teifi #llandysul

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@wrurestore

2 years

Two of the most dangerous people in Britain for farming, environment & biodiversity. They will sell UK farming to the USA, this will mean UK farming will follow the US intensive system to compete All compacted into UK scale. It will make the UK dairy disaster look child’s play.

Dave Throup

@DaveThroup

2 years

Lettuce & Turnip Strange names for piglets.

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@wrurestore

1 year

@GrahamDenny9 @UKChange Double the sentence. Wilful entitled arrogant damage from the worst of farming. The few brilliant farmers we have have their generic reputation trashed by such people.

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@wrurestore

6 months

It's true, just hopeless, if they were doing their job at least half a dozen polluting farms would be shut down immediately!

Rhys Morgan ↙️

@RCMtuning

6 months

@JGriffithsLab Start by getting rid of @NatResWales as they're absolutely useless

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@wrurestore

3 years

Guardians of the countryside don’t you know.

Andrew Chick

@APCbirding

3 years

There has been unprecedented rainfall and the land is water logged, but let’s spread slurry from the road (25.02.22) in a National Park, AONB, with local SSSI’s and nearby rivers/lakes just down the road! @EnvAgency @GeorgeMonbiot @Alexander_Lees @lakedistrictnpa

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2 years

The day ends. Coverage from the fab @Channel4News . (To follow) Wonderful @sascampaigns folk from all corners of Wales. The magnificent @WindrushWasp team turned up too. @DwrCymru you need to start engaging. @NatResWales you need to start regulating. Species champs u need action

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@wrurestore

3 years

@Feargal_Sharkey @WaterUK @DefraGovUK @Ofwat @EnvAgency And this, utter failure to care for the environment. Isn't that right @NatResWales @fmwales @Amanwy @Eluned_Morgan note the clouds too, perfect day to rid the evidence.

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@wrurestore

10 months

Crops and farming practices in Wales have changed so much these past 50 years to deliver intensification. The legacy infrastructure doesn't help much. Redesign required? How to fund it?

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@wrurestore

4 months

Have had a great week out with @SwanseaUni tagging Salmon smolts on the Wye for a study. In its prime the Wye would’ve generated in excess of 1.8M smolts a year. What now? 80k?

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@wrurestore

2 years

@Feargal_Sharkey @rupertevelyn @SouthernWater @GMB @HugoSAS On the @river_usk in Wales @DwrCymru dump sewage into the river catchment upstream of Usk town, then in Usk town they pump the “river mix” to feed Llandegfedd reservoir that supplies much of East Wales. We have asked what they test for in the supply but alas…… silence …

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10 months

Here’s one from 5 years ago. 2023 is looking dire for Usk Salmon. Gene banking this year @BenWilsNRW @SteveOrmerod ? Can we have an update on the Salmon crisis at the @NatResWales board meeting on 16/11 ? Every 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 river has collapsed @welshecon @HuhPuh @fedwarian @huw4ogmore

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