Well, the 10 day United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Bonn has ended today with lots of talk little action and obstinance by the main fossil fuel producing countries. Those bastions of human rights and friends of the Trump Administration Saudi Arabia has continued to object to a key IPCC scientific report that urges…
Lamu one of Kenya’s most historic tourist destinations looks likely to remain such following a ruling by Kenyan judges which has have halted plans to construct the country’s first ever coal-powered Electric plant. There were plans for a Chinese backed 1,050 MW coal-fired station however campaign group DeCOALize took the National Environment Management Authority (Nema)…
Sometimes you have to stop and say WFT when you read some of the news stories out there and this firmly falls into that camp. This one is from Florida and the story began when an estranged wife whose car was rear-bumpered and eventually ran off the road by her husband (who was arrested for…
Further evidence of the futility of putting public utilities with monopoly positions into private hands comes from good old Southern Waters latest fine for not only failing to properly control the risk of wastewater polluting the environment but for manipulating its wastewater sampling process, meaning it misreported information about the performance of some of its…
Ever since May 2018, when President Trump chose to abandon the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and several other world powers, the war of words has steadily been escalating – which would be amusing if it was not Middle Eastern peace that was in danger. the latest retort has come from Iran’s president Hassan…
A migrant detention centre in Clint, Texas, has been slammed for its inhumane treatment of around 255 migrant children who were separated from their parents as part of the Trump Administrations ill thought out 2018 “zero tolerance” policy which affected around 3,000 children before it was suspended. despite these children being extremely vulnerable and in…