“Cuadrilla said it appreciated the tremor [of 2.9 magnitude] had ’caused concern for local people’ and said ‘it is worth noting that this event lasted for around a second and the average ground motion recorded was 5mm per second. … This is about a third of that permitted for construction projects.'” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49471321
However, there is a much higher requirement for destruction projects.
“About 100 solar panels at the trackside site will supply renewable electricity to power the signalling and lights on Network Rail’s Wessex route.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/22/rail-line-in-hampshire-is-worlds-first-to-be-powered-by-solar-farm
Network Rail adds a new conker to its armoury of pitiful excuses for delays: ‘cloud’.
“There is also scope for solar trams in Edinburgh, Glasgow…”
Scope is what you’ll need to magnify the one photon of sunlight in Scotland.
“The [bonnethead shark] successfully digested the seagrass with enzymes that broke down components of the plants, such as starch and cellulose. Lacking the kind of teeth best suited for mastication, the fish may rely on strong stomach acids to weaken the plants’ cells so the enzymes can have their digestive effects. In all, more than half of the organic material locked up in the seagrass was digested by the sharks, putting them on a par with young green sea turtles.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/05/bonnethead-omnivorous-shark-species-identified
Even sharks are adopting a reduced meat diet.
Did you spot that this ‘news’ is exactly one year ‘olds’?
“Granting rights to nature would ‘open the courtroom doors to radical environmentalist lawyers’ who’d ‘fire a continual barrage of lawsuits to uphold the rights of their animal and vegetable clients.” …
‘Each time there is a movement to confer rights onto some new ‘entity,’ the proposal is bound to sound odd or frightening or laughable'” https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/07/a-new-wave-of-environmentalists-want-to-give-nature-legal-rights/
M’on the conifer rights!
“Scotland is different. At the simplest level, the full Scottish [EU election] result will not be known until Monday because they don’t count votes on the Sabbath in the Western Isles.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48270030
Go the teuchters; resisting the instant information imperative!
“I am a Conservative, and I believe in profit and that a rising tide lifts all ships.” Hugo Swire, MP for East Devon http://bit.ly/2VxSv94
…and strands them all over what used to be low-lying land.
“In May the PLA [Port of London Authority] released its own air quality strategy for the Thames, including targets to cut NOx and particulates by half over the next 25 years.
Such measures are already being implemented in the Thames Clippers, but critics have pointed out that even with these changes pollution levels would still far exceed those of road vehicles.
“To me it’s weak – it’s a lot of smoke and mirrors to say they are doing something.”” https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/air-pollution-river-thames-boats-transport-shipping-ferries-nitrogen-dioxide-sadiq-khan-a8411561.html
The mirrors are making the smoke seem twice as bad as it actually is.
