Tag: Greenpeace

Leaky pipes waste five times more water than hosepipe bans save

Stuart Mitchell

Water firms in England and Wales are wasting around five times more water through leaky pipes than a nationwide hosepipe ban could save, a Greenpeace UK analysis of official figures reveals.  The findings come as millions of households face new restrictions on their water use following a prolonged spell of hot and dry weather.  The most recent Ofwat data shows that water companies are still wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes, enough to fill 1,150 Olympic-sized swimming pools. A fifth of all the…

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Greenpeace UK appoints Kathryn Tomlinson as new board chair

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace UK has appointed Kathryn Tomlinson as the new chair of its board of directors. Kathryn, who is the Deputy Secretary General at Amnesty International, brings many years of director-level experience in international development and human rights to the role. Before joining Amnesty, she held high-profile posts at International Alert, the global peace-building organisation, and Conciliation Resources, an international organisation committed to stopping violent conflict, where she was responsible for programme delivery across 15 countries, including Latin America and Africa. Kathryn also spent six years as Asia Regional Director for the…

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Greenpeace announces new ocean boulder barrier plans, telling PM: “If your government won’t protect our seas, we will”

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace UK has today announced its intention to create new underwater boulder barriers in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).  A decade after the Brexit vote, the charity, backed by a raft of celebrities and ocean conservation organisations, has accused the government of failing to use its post-Brexit powers to properly protect UK seas from destructive industrial fishing. In 2020, The Fisheries Act gave the UK government full powers to protect UKMPAs. Despite this, destructive industrial fishing vessels are still allowed to trawl the vast majority of these so-called protected areas.…

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Local communities in Croatia celebrate victory against one of Europe’s largest chicken factories

Stuart Mitchell

After months of intense public protests, local communities and environmental groups in Croatia are celebrating a major victory after European poultry giant MHP withdrew from a chicken megaproject in northeast Croatia. The proposed megaproject would have quadrupled the country’s chicken production. The withdrawal officially cancels 12 of the 24 planned sub-projects that had been divided between two companies, bypassing stricter environmental regulations. The planned facility would have been among the largest poultry projects in Europe, designed to slaughter 100 million chickens annually. In a move that avoids stricter environmental impact…

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Traditional roast dinner sprayed with cocktail of over 100 pesticides, Greenpeace finds

Stuart Mitchell

A typical British roast dinner, followed by strawberries for dessert, is produced using a cocktail of more than 100 pesticides, new analysis by Greenpeace of official data has revealed. The findings are published today in Greenpeace UK’s new report, Our Poisoned Land, which warns that intensive pesticide and fertiliser use is not only posing serious risks to human health, it’s also pushing British wildlife and our natural environment to the brink. Since 1966, Britain has lost over 19 million breeding birds, and more than half of UK butterfly species are…

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