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Sarah Finch

@sarahfinch.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, climate campaigner. Born at 319 ppm. Fighting fossil fuels with @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social and championing the Atlantic Salmon with @tidelines.bsky.social.

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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 5h
Hi Dan, no I can't message you either. You can email me on sarahjanefinch AT gmail DOT com
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 12h
I'm very proud of my clever daughter, captain of the SOAS University Challenge team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mb...
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University Challenge S56E14 - SOAS v Edinburgh
YouTube video by CosmicPumpkin
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a message for @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very good!
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ha ha, I thought you meant working out the carbon took days. Where can I find the Government's 2026 factors?
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Today the high court has said what we have always known: we cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us and won’t be felt by us" Well said Wendy! Congratulations to all on this historic victory.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I attended one today too – in Exeter. So brilliant that there are screenings happening everywhere.
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Weald Action Group @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The climate transition will not be won solely at major international conferences. It will also be fought around wells, infrastructure and the administrative decisions that authorise or tolerate pollution.” DRC-based organisation DEC-RDC on our methane campaign dec-rdc.org/methane-in-t...
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Methane: In the UK, the Climate Battle Is Moving from Oil Wells to the Courts - DEC-RDC
Voix du Paysan – informing and empowering citizens: a commitment to social and climate justice. When methane leaks slip through…
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oil and gas companies who make BILLIONS are trying to get out of paying tax while we all freeze this winter. 38d.gs/wsa-
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It's time for them to pay up.
Oil and gas companies who make BILLIONS are trying to get out of paying tax while we all freeze this winter.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What wonderful blogs. I have just read them all. RIP Filbert Cobb
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Water company for Devon & Cornwall to pay *record fine* of £8m for hundreds of sewage spills Incl untreated sewage gushing through a harbour wall for 10 hours on a bank holiday weekend Pennon Group, owner of SW Water, returned £138mn to shareholders last year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please sign this important petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts.
Landowners burn heather for driven grouse shooting, leading to harmful air pollution, increased flood risk, and increased wildfire risk, all while releasing tonnes of carbon into the air, accelerating...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had to Google that. I hope it works well and the side effects are manageable. Sending you love and good health vibes.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires. campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/...
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I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.
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Tidelines @tidelines.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We had an absolute blast at Salmon Run 2026! Thank you to everyone for joining us: 44-mile ultra runners, community relay runners, musicians, artists, everyone who joined in our activities along the way, and all of you who showed up to take part and cheer our runners – and the salmon – on! 🐟🌊🏃‍♀️
Three male runners wearing face masks with the words 'Low Oxygen' and 'Warming Waters'. Behind them is the River Exe.An elegant fishy couple standing on Exeter Quay, the Customs House behind them. The woman has a long fish-tailed skirt and is holding a large cardboard salmon. The man is in frock coat and holds a bugle.An ultra runner poses in a willow arch having completed his 44-mile run.A male runner with the salmon-shaped relay baton in front of a church
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sorry to hear of your loss. Lovely that robins serve as a reminder of the joy they brought her.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week Natural England said salmon stocks in England have fallen to their lowest level since records began. 95% of the main salmon rivers don’t have enough fish to sustain their populations. Tomorrow we'll show the salmon some love and talk about their plight at the amazing Exe Salmon Run.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New owner at Horse Hill, same old plan for long-term oil production. Once again, their environmental statement isn’t up to scratch. 2.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions is described as “insignificant”. My comments in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Company behind failed Surrey oilfield project sells site at massive loss
New owners apply for permission to extract oil in Surrey despite landmark ruling from supreme court in 2024
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A UK mining company is suing Morocco for £880 million after it rejected plans for a mine on environmental grounds. Corporations shouldn’t be able to bully governments for implementing policies that protect the climate. Take action with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/199506/...
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Stop Corporations Suing Countries Over Action on Climate: End ISDS
Take action
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Weald Action Group @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Imagine any other industry being allowed to largely mark its own homework! Yet UK onshore oil & gas emissions rely heavily on operator reporting. Help us challenge this: tinyurl.com/WAG-Fundraiser-CACF #CleanAirClearFuture
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have made udm14 my default search engine and it works fine
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Palantir’s contract with NHS England is up for renewal in February 2027, with discussions expected to begin this year. This is a critical moment for us to tell the new Health Secr... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Tell the Health Secretary, Yvette Cooper: No Palantir in our NHS
Palantir’s contract with NHS England is up for renewal in February 2027, with discussions expected to begin this year. This is a critical moment for us to tell the new Health Secretary: No Palantir in...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Isn't it better to produce our own gas/oil than to import it?" A question I am asked frequently. In relation to Jackdaw, Rosebank and even Horse Hill. @kevinclimate.bsky.social answers it very clearly here. climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Global Systems Institute @gsiexeter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 People's Emergency Briefing - Exeter Join us on for a community screening of the People's Emergency Briefing, followed by a facilitated discussion on the climate and nature crisis and how communities can respond. ✅ Free event, open to all 🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-em...
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Weald Action Group @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HELP US TAKE ON METHANE POLLUTION! Support our investigations, campaigning and legal challenges. DONATE TODAY: tinyurl.com/WAG-Fundraiser-CACF #CleanAirClearFuture
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Please donate to the @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social campaign to expose and stop methane pollution from onshore oil and gas www.zeffy.com/en-GB/donati...
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Help us expose and stop methane pollution from onshore oil and gas
Support Weald Action Group’s ‘Clean Air, Clear Future’ campaign - an urgent effort to protect our climate, safeguard public health and hold regulators and…
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Tidelines @tidelines.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fisheries scientist and Salmon Run alumnus @danosmond.bsky.social has written a book! Peace Trout & Understanding explores what it means to fish in a damaged world. Fishing yarns for anyone who has tried to peer through the murk of eco-anxiety. Buy your copy at www.peacetroutandunderstanding.com
A man with long hair and a beard holds a book with a picture of...  a man with long hair and a beard! The book is titled Peace, Love & Unerstanding.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What?? How can they exclude people on that basis?
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
live through, or perish by, eats at my heart. What have I done? I need better answers than there are to the pain of coming to see what was done in blindness, loving what I cannot save. Nor, your eyes turning toward me, can I wish your lives unmade though the pain of them is on me.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wendell Berry has died. A great man. My favourite of his poems might fit in two posts, let’s see. TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM Terrors are to come. The earth is poisoned with narrow lives. I think of you. What you will ⬇️
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I agree!
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t agree with everything John Gummer says here (especially the “We believe in the capitalist system” part). But I wish Conservatives still thought like this. www.ft.com/content/5b8f...
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Tory attempts to repeal the UK Climate Act are tin-eared
Summer’s droughts and wildfires demonstrate the need to stick to cross-party consensus on policy and to UK strategy on net zero
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have to disagree, as a 62-year-old who has been campaigning on climate since the 1980s! Many my age and older are in the fight, or actively worried. I think the Conservatives are misjudging the public mood.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How many wake-up calls do we need? Strong words from Palau president: “We are not asking for your goodwill... We are telling you what international law requires... End fossil fuel expansion. Your corporate profits cannot be allowed to extinguish our future.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I wouldn't have recognised him but I would Cara, she looks exactly the same. Say hello to her from me.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wow where did they meet? If you decide to go to Exeter let me know. I live here now.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When is the Exeter show?
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Isles of Scilly is home to amazing marine life, but South West Water plans to pump untreated sewage straight into these protected waters. Scilly deserves the best sewage treatment, not a cheap fix. Help protect this beautiful ecosystem and add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/gi...
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Stop untreated sewage polluting the Isles of Scilly
South West Water plans to pump untreated sewage into one of the UK's most protected marine environments. Add your name to demand the highest standard of sewage treatment for the Isles of Scilly and he...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That's amazing and a really useful precedent. I'm glad to read it.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Big legal win on data centres back in January: Govt admitted its decision contained a “serious logical error”. Set important precedent that data centre developers’ environmental promises must be legally binding, not just PR and greenwash. Well done @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and @lawforchange.uk
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No I hadn't seen! Please share a link.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks! I hadn't seen this (though I knew about the airport rulings 😠) Will have to hack my way past the ENDS payroll to read the article.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? foe.uk/bl2np
foe.uk
Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My reaction to this article was wondering how @angelaeagle1.bsky.social could write about fire and flood without mentioning the need to stop extraction of oil and gas. Rosebank & Jackdaw are a hot political topic right now and I dearly hope Ms Eagle is weighing in to say they must not be allowed.
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a great playlist Dan! Is the launch open to all or by invitation?
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes I saw that. They are fighting hard and we need to fight harder than they do.
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