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Stuart Spray

@stuartspray.bsky.social
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Ecologist | Environmental Journalist | Drone Pilot | Filmmaker

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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.endsreport.com/article/1971... What will Scotland’s environmental super-merger mean for nature? My latest for @endsreport.com @scotwildlife.bsky.social @mcsuk.bsky.social @theicf.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @scotlink.bsky.social
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What will Scotland’s environmental super-merger mean for nature?
The Scottish government intends to merge its major environmental bodies, but NGOs have warned that this could lead to a lowering of nature protection and a loss of staff expertise, writes Stuart Spray...
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It really is alarming that the government shows no acknowledgment of this dramatically evolving threat picture. The National Emergency Briefing experts stand ready to brief the PM and his team privately, including a viewing of the People’s Emergency Briefing film. #NationalEmergencyBriefing
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This was just a selection. Everyone we spoke to was a climate change denier of one form or another. #reformuk has become a private members club for #ClimateChangeDeniers.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Environmental journalist @stuartspray.bsky.social asked Reform UK delegates for their thoughts on climate change. Here's what they had to say.
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Despite having our press accreditation revoked by @reform-uk-official.bsky.social at the last minute, we spoke to some of the conference delegates about the #climatecrisis #SpoilerAlert! Everyone we spoke to was a #climatechange denier Watch the full film by clicking on the link lnkd.in/eTYYNJ5w
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another Level of Crazy - Drax’s plans to build a data centre powered by burning imported forests. Watch full film here👉 youtu.be/V5ZfbMYi2y8the Despite the heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, it business as usual for Drax - the biggest carbon emitter in the UK. @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another Level of Crazy - Drax’s plans to build a data centre powered by burning imported forests. Dr Mary Stevens at @friends-earth.bsky.social accuses Drax of using the boom in AI to extend the life of its wood burning power station in North Yorkshire Watch full film here👉 youtu.be/V5ZfbMYi2y8the
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you like the thought of data centres powered by new gas plants You'll LOVE the idea of data centres powered by burning old growth forests
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Despite unprecedented heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the UK, not only is it business as usual for Drax, UK's biggest carbon emitter, they're planning to build a hyperscale data centre powered by burning trees. Watch full film here👉 youtu.be/V5ZfbMYi2y8the @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Despite unprecedented heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the UK, not only is it business as usual for Drax, UK's biggest carbon emitter, they're planning to build a hyperscale data centre powered by burning trees. Watch full film here👉 youtu.be/V5ZfbMYi2y8the @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A construction firm has been prosecuted for the death of 100 bats. But the carnage I witnessed deserved more than a £17,000 fine My latest for @endsreport.com @batconservation.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social @batcon.org www.endsreport.com/article/1967...
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A construction firm has been prosecuted for the death of 100 bats. But the carnage I witnessed deserved more than a £17,000 fine
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To celebrate her 90th birthday, my mother, Frankie, is doing a sponsored wingwalk for VASA the charity she volunteers for in Stratford up Avon where she lives. All donations however large or small most welcome. Please share. www.justgiving.com/campaign/fra...
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Frankie's 90th Birthday Wing Walk for VASA
This is not our usual community transport. At 90, Frankie, one of VASA's friendly phone volunteers, is walking on the wing of a plane for her birthday. Help her raise £1,000 to keep her community conn...
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Dr Abi Perrin @abiperrin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Combining science and activism.... does it damage public trust? Or could it be the only thing powerful enough to combat the disinformation and passivity that is holding back urgent action on existential threats such the Climate Emergency? More from us in @nature.com today: rdcu.be/fzcmS
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great to see bat mitigation (not mine) working! @batcon.org @batconservation.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social #bat #brownlongearedbat
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This interaction was filmed using an infra-red camera. The brown long eared bat was using echolocation to navigate and detect the moth in pitch darkness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pufY...
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Deaths linked to #AirPollution in London have fallen by 40% since 2019 - thank you @london.gov.uk for your leadership! But 3,800-5,100 Londoners are still dying prematurely every year from our dirty air. The work is not yet done. Diesel & wood burning need to go, and we need a plan for WHO limits.
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Deaths linked to London air pollution have fallen 40%, study estimates
However, Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The #hairywoodant plays a key role in the health of the @cairngormsnews.bsky.social woodlands by feeding on insects that can harm trees and recycling nutrients. Its large nests provide shelter for other small creatures, and the ants are an important food source for birds and mammals.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"The fact that the party which is leading in all of the national opinion polls is now using the sort of rhetoric previously reserved for the very fringes of the far-right is deeply alarming – as is the fact that this rhetoric is being publicised and normalised by Reform’s media supporters."
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Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation
The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Why Farage's 'White Lives Matter' speech and Reform's increasingly desperate descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is a sign of the party's growing fears that their time at the top of British politics may soon be coming to an end bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/n...
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Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation
The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Paul de Zylva, nature campaigner for Friends of the Earth, describes the Reform UK's environmental policies as “a scrappage plan to speed up the demise of UK wildlife.
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'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'
Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Keir Starmer’s Government Allows UK’s Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood pippaheylings.bsky.social alexsobel.co.uk biofuelwatch.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social stopburningtrees.bsky.social axedrax.bsky.social My latest for bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Pippa Heylings 🔶 MP for South Cambridgeshire (@pippaheylings.bsky.social)
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy Security & Net Zero
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Keir Starmer’s Government Allows UK’s Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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Keir Starmer’s Government Allows UK’s Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Keir Starmer’s Government Allows UK’s Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood pippaheylings.bsky.social alexsobel.co.uk biofuelwatch.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social stopburningtrees.bsky.social axedrax.bsky.social My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/k...
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Stop Ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"New #ecocide legislation will soon make it far easier to hold major polluters personally accountable" New article by Stuart Spray for The ENDS Report discusses the latest developments toward criminalising mass harm to nature! Read here: www.endsreport.com/a... #StopEcocide
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Gerard Forlin KC: Ecocide law is moving faster than many predict cornerstonebarristers.com/gerard-forli...
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Gerard Forlin KC: Ecocide law is moving faster than many predict | Cornerstone Barristers
Gerard Forlin KC has been quoted extensively in a new ENDS Report feature examining the accelerating global movement towards ecocide law and the implications for […]
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As the UK moves closer to introducing ecocide laws focusing on individual responsibility rather than amorphous corporations, me for ENDs Report on why CEOs may need to worry alexaculver.bsky.social #EcocideLaw #Ecocide stopecocide.bsky.social cornerstonebarristers.com citizensarrestnet.bsky.social
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Why ecocide laws could be coming far sooner than many predict
The Scottish Ecocide Bill failed to become law before the Scottish Parliament dissolved for the recent local elections, but some lawyers think ecocide laws could be coming to the UK far sooner than ma...
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social #Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for #Ecocide lnkd.in/eC8B67H9 @alexsobel.co.uk @stopecocide.bsky.social @cornerstonebarristers.com
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🔴Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’ With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war bylinetimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
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Ukraine Launches Landmark Legal Action to Hold Russia Accountable for ‘Ecocide’
With environmental damages now estimated at £108 billion, Ukraine is hoping to pioneer the global prosecution of ecocide as a weapon of war
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
BREAKING: Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Tory peer Lord Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and is in a business partnership with the editor of a reconstituted Nazi eugenics platform - by me via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/r...
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Reform's Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform
Reform's Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for "progressive eugenics" and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🔴Reform’s Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation
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Reform's Matt Goodwin Advises Conservative Peer Linked to Relaunched Nazi Race Science Platform
Reform's Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Toby Young, who has advocated for "progressive eugenics" and has ties to the front publication for a reconstituted Nazi eugenics foundation
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
📌 ICYMI — Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage’s Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against… bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/exclusiv……
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Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage's Party in Gorton and Denton By-election
Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Labour party have just posted this Tweet and graphic about our poll tonight. Can you spot what's missing? bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/e...
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great work from @nafeez.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/23/r... Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience
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Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin's Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front
Reform's Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the "inherent differences between groups" has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🟢 One in six species in the UK is now at risk of extinction. In our latest issue, @stuartspray.bsky.social shows how Reform UK's plans to scrap biodiversity initiatives would risk accelerating the decline of already fragile ecosystems. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/a...
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A Scrappage Plan to Speed Up the Demise of UK Wildlife – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The party’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing the country’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, writes Stuart Spray
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
EXPOSED: Reform's CRAZY Climate Claims Originally produced by me for @bylinetv.bsky.social @officialrukclacton.bsky.social @reform-uk-official.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social #ClimateChangeDeniers #ClimateCrisis youtu.be/eBiwacwFEXQ
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EXPOSED: Reform's CRAZY Climate Claims
YouTube video by On Nature's Frontline with Stuart Spray
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Nigel Farage’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social Full investigation here: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/n... @rewildingbritain.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Behind populist slogans and patriotic rhetoric of #ReformUK lies a devastating agenda for nature that, according to conservation groups, risks accelerating the decline of already fragile ecosystems. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'
Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Breaking: CEO of Southern Water citizen’s arrested for public nuisance after spilling millions of bio beads on Camber Sands earlier this month. City of London police arrived promptly and took our evidence of the CEOs crimes. Read our release for more: www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
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BREAKING NEWS: Citizen’s Arrest for “disaster” water CEO Lawrence Gosden at industry conference in London - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square. They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest. The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.
State of Gandhi behind bars with a security man standing in front.State of Fawcett behind bars, close up from face to torso.State of Gandhi behind bars from behind with Parliament in the background.State of Mandela behind bars, close-up from head to torso.
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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Breaking: Group of women place CEO of Anglian Water under Citizen’s Arrest for one hour outside Coulsdon South Station this morning with evidence the CEO may be committing crimes of public nuisance. When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.
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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
For updates and keeping track of future actions www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @stuartspray.bsky.social @hugotagholm.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org @stephspyro.bsky.social
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Press - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network
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Martin Porter @thesnufkin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Longdendale Reservoirs are at an all time low whilst Derbyshire County Council's Reform UK leadership has abolished it's climate change committee. The Manchester Greenpeace Group has been out to film the dry Woodhead Reservoir. This is what a climate crisis looks like in England.
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like in the UK. Filmed for @mancgreenpeace.bsky.social last weekend at #WoodheadReservoir in #Derbyshire. @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social @desmog.com @mcrfoe.bsky.social
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I am looking forward to discussing why the UK is so crap at looking after #biodiversity at the Byline Festival with Alexa Culver, @kitstoner.bsky.social, @malcolmtait.bsky.social and @carexnigra.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social Visit the website to find out more: lnkd.in/eXfAnf3k
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
👏 📮 In Cambridge, South West Norfolk, Derby South and Wells and Mendip Hills, campaigners posted their constituency’s open letter to Keir Starmer—calling on him to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate and vote! 🐝 action.zerohour.uk #CANBill @scientistsforxr.earth
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Electronic billboards in #Manchester have been taken over by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social, highlighting the threats to our right to protest. Today Manchester was also visited by www.theherds.org @mancgreenpeace.bsky.social @mcrfoe.bsky.social
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Nick Oldridge @nickoldridge.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We spent decades combatting fake climate science, now we are battling fake climate solutions - at a time when we simply cant afford to make mistakes (last roll of the dice). Oligarchs should not be advising government ⚠️
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