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Well this is just spiffing. Thank you governments for looking after us so well.

This is really damning of independent water companies preferring to cover up or introduce makeshift process. Government departments playing down experts’ advice. I don’t know, sometimes I question the efficacy of 5-year looping ‘democracy’, because no one gives a **** about the long-term.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe
 
andytoprankin said:
Well this is just spiffing. Thank you governments for looking after us so well.

This is really damning of independent water companies preferring to cover up or introduce makeshift process. Government departments playing down experts’ advice. I don’t know, sometimes I question the efficacy of 5-year looping ‘democracy’, because no one gives a **** about the long-term.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe
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Shocking eh..... we were walking yesterday and rmeembering how as kids we would jump in any water and play...... and drink water from streams... no more
 
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andytoprankin said:
Well this is just spiffing. Thank you governments for looking after us so well.

This is really damning of independent water companies preferring to cover up or introduce makeshift process. Government departments playing down experts’ advice. I don’t know, sometimes I question the efficacy of 5-year looping ‘democracy’, because no one gives a **** about the long-term.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...rever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe
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And this on top of the torrents of sewage the Westminster government allow to be poured into England's waterways on a near-daily basis.... :(
 
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Every year the water company sends the tests results from the underground reservoir that provides our supply. Lots of technical data that goes over my head, I am afraid. I assumed that it was something that someone understood, but reading the article, now wonder if tests are being carried out for enough pollutants.
 
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Rather a symbolic day here in Germany in that the country's last nuclear reactors have finally been completely run down and are no longer running. The question of what to do with nuclear waste still remains - Gorleben has been declared unsuitable and what remains are there will have to be redeposited and there is no way that the German public will accept anywhere in the country being used for the dumping of nuclear waste from other countries, as has been the case in the past. Other countries are not following suit in this and so France (which is still building these reactors) had to import electricity from Germany last year because of the drought which meant they didn't have enough water to cool their reactors and keep them running - they can whistle for this in future.
 
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To fight climate change, France bans domestic flights where cities are linked by train with a journey time of two and a half hours or less. Will mean flights between Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux and Lyons will be shut down. It is the first country in the world to introduce such a ban.

Will the EPL ban teams flying to away games in England. I somehow doubt it.
 
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I find this story really quite strange. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65731807

When my son-in-law was working in Belgium, he would bring different local beers to try out. The plea was always the same, to save the empties, so he could get the deposit on the bottles back. If the same could be done for plastic bottles as well, maybe there would be less litter as the roadside.
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
I find this story really quite strange. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65731807

When my son-in-law was working in Belgium, he would bring different local beers to try out. The plea was always the same, to save the empties, so he could get the deposit on the bottles back. If the same could be done for plastic bottles as well, maybe there would be less litter as the roadside.
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It's not that odd when you think about the rationale behind the UK government decision - they have been angling for quite some time now to scrap devolution by undermining the Scottish government in whatever way they can. They freely admit that they never wanted it in the first place and want it scrapped. When they announced that they 'wouldn't allow' this one, they never bothered informing the Scottish government - they told BBC Scotland, and Humza Yousaf only found out via their report.

Their claim that deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the UK is tripe - different schemes in each State worked perfectly well across Australia.
 
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It's not that odd when you think about the rationale behind the UK government decision - they have been angling for quite some time now to scrap devolution by undermining the Scottish government in whatever way they can. They freely admit that they never wanted it in the first place and want it scrapped. When they announced that they 'wouldn't allow' this one, they never bothered informing the Scottish government - they told BBC Scotland, and Humza Yousaf only found out via their report.

Their claim that deposit return schemes need to be consistent across the UK is tripe - different schemes in each State worked perfectly well across Australia.
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And then there's this. Sounds like a set-up to me.

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Yesterday afternoon I was sat indoors with Mme listening to the cricket on TMS, just trying to keep cool. Suddenly, the settee moved beneath us. What the hell was that we both wondered. Today I found out that there had been an earthquake in a little town called Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon. That town is 170 kms away from here, showing how powerful a quake magnitude 5.8 can be.
 
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