"The water company said its £1.5m project to double the sewage treatment capacity of the site was due to come online next month". United Utilities tearing a page from the Yorkshire Water PR book. We've heard it all before. Jam tomorrow. Or rather, less sewage tomorrow 🤮 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sewage dumped in River Eea for three weeks running

A storm overflow in Cark in Cumbria has been discharging into the River Eea since 28 August.

Meanwhile in Springfield

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Yep. Cornwall has 'globally significant' lithium deposits. Northern Lithium is testing for lithium brine in Durham & is delighted at the results so far. Dartmoor is within the Plymouth Freeport, so will be essentially unregulated, and the mica in granite is another source of Lithium. Good, innit?

Not the same firm but a very similar name. The Cheshire one is Urenco. The Boris one is entangled with very dubious characters. My point was that the State has no control inside Freeports, which might as well be pirate kingdoms. Urenco has been criticised over safety concerns.

Ran across another friend who didn't get Paxlovid bc it was hundreds of dollars so here's this link again. You have to have a prescription to enroll and will need to educate the pharmacist but it works. No one should pay hundreds of dollars for Paxlovid! Privatization sucks! wapo.st/47hF7aO

Opinion | Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it

There’s a terrific new program for free Paxlovid, but many people don’t know about it.

It's almost that time of year again... I strongly urge fellow National Trust members to, once again, vote against Jacob Rees-Thug's obscurely-financed reactionary Neanderthals, and for the Trust's list of preferred candidates for council! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The National Trust must again resist the group trying to turn grievances into policy | Rowan Moore

Burning with unquenchable resentment, Restore Trust is making another attempt at taking over the institution

UK democracy is now only about satisfying the wishes of the asset classes who have taken it upon themselves to diagnose the ills of 'social justice' and remedy them with deregulated zoning. Thread

SEZs puncture holes in the fabric of the nation-state by removing corporate taxation in specifically designated areas chosen via consultations between stakeholders and the government.

Does it need Tardigrade DNA?

For those who think uranium is not a UK issue. In May Sunak signed off on a deal to create a nuclear enrichment plant in help secure fuel independence. This will be in Cheshire, in the Liverpool Freeport. Health & Safety? Workers' Rights? The Environment? All gone in a Freeport. Now BJ wants in.

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