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🏠 Read RenewableUK's Head of Policy @stevenagnew.bsky.social comments on the Royal Assent of the Planning and Infrastructure Act by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in our latest press release below 👇

Public service announcement: your bag does not need a seat. Thank you.

Some thoughts on the news that 48% of those arrested over Belfast race riots had been reported to police for domestic violence. With McGr*g*r losing his appeal & definitively found to be a rapist in a court of law it is important we call out the hypocrisy at the heart of the far right movement.

We all do it. We store away odd nails, screws and tools and cables in the hope that someday it’ll just be what we need. Today was the day, I used that Allen key that I knew would come in handy. All hail the Allen key 🙇‍♂️

NEW – State of the climate: 2025 on track to be second or third warmest year on record | @hausfath.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/NHyC9HP

“The mushroom killer was obsessed with true crime”. If this had been a young person someone would be calling for a ban. The vast majority of true crime fans don’t become killers, just like most young people playing violent video games or listening to rap don’t go on to pop a cap in somebody’s ass.

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'there is a special place in hell for politicians who object to solar farms & other renewable projects. But perhaps the hottest part is reserved for those who seek to slow pylons and other forms of electricity transmission, they keep us on course for a burning world. bright-green.org/2023/11/07/g...

@murdercitydevils.bsky.social Iggy baby. Representing at #IggyPop, Dublin.

Saturday in Dublin is looking pretty good #IggyPop #GillaBand #JohnCooperClarke #LambriniGirls #Warmduscher all in one day at #InTheMeadows festival.

@lauriewhitwell.bsky.social will be gloating on Talk of the Devils this week 🥳

FACTCHECK: Almost all the headlines on Tony Blair / net-zero are *wildly* inaccurate REALITY: 1️⃣Net-zero is *only way* to stop warming 2️⃣Blair calls for tech to "turbocharge our path to net-zero" 3️⃣He categorically *does not* say "net-zero is doomed to fail" 🧵 1/6

It's gas that is making UK electricity expensive. www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/2

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Have you got your ticket for 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 yet? Join us on 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 for an inspiring day! Book your ticket https://buff.ly/3DYOG43 #RenewableNI #STEM #RoleModel #WomenInRenewables #WIR2025

Net immigration across NI has averaged less than 3,000 people over the last two decades. If immigration is the cause of all our ills, NI should be the most prosperous part of the UK. Spoiler: it’s not. Despite the rhetoric, immigration is good for the economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I read The Tiger Who Came to Tea and The Ravenous Beast to my son, it never occurred to me he would view them as role models.

Think Reform’s net-zero announcements may well be their first big mistake since their rise in the polls. There would definitely be scope to criticise specific climate measures, but trying to actively reverse shift to renewables lands well on wrong side of British public opinion.

An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.

Recommended listen: Three climate change storytellers featured in this week’s BBC Sounds' Start the Week podcast, discussing writing the new climate talks-themed play Kyoto, Shetland’s windfarms and the art of agreeing.

Thanks to Margaret Canning for the opportunity to inform the discussion on NIE Networks compensation in the wake of Storm Éowyn. @renewableni.bsky.social @belfasttelegraph.co.uk m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/comm...

Full podcast is a fascinating insight into how the tech industry responded to attempts at regulation: open.spotify.com/episode/5bZj...

I took part in the RSPB’s #BigGardenBirdWatch and counted 15 birds. 1 blackbird, 1 collared dove, 1 herring gull, 6 house sparrows, 2 jackdaws, 1 magpie, 1 starling, 2 woodpigeons. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... @rspb.bsky.social

Tickets are now available for our 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 event in March. Book your place now and join us! https://buff.ly/3DYOG43

Interviewer: You have been a performer for nearly 40 years, what has changed in the way you perform? Me: Well I haven’t used the phrase ‘it could be worse’ in about a decade.

NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4hfcKhk

So Stand Up to Racism just had their post removed from Facebook for pointing out Musk’s Nazi salute. This is Zuck’s free speech!

Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever

Electric shock collars are cruel and I'm sick of waiting on the Scottish Government to ban them, as their own expert advisors recommended in 2023. I've tabled proposals to criminalise the use of shock collars. MSPs will vote next Thursday #BanShockCollars www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

"This is the great discovery of the conflict entrepreneurs: what counts in politics is not how well people are doing, but how well they are doing in relation to designated out-groups." So people support a class war against themselves. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Impatiently waiting for @thejesuslizard.bsky.social with a friend. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a nice guy …

NEW – Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4adlD8E

You say Goodbye Bluesky, I say hello …