Monthly Archives: May 2012

Anglers Despair over delays to new Hydropower Good Practice Guidelines

Angling bodies and fisheries conservation charities reacted with despair as it was announced that the long awaited new Hydropower Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) will be delayed even further. Following a year-long consultation with angling and fisheries interests and the hydropower … Continue reading

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Thames Tunnel Phase 2 consultation report published

The report outlines the company’s response to all the comments it received during the 14-week consultation, which ran from 4th November 2011 to 10th February 2012. It confirms the project’s preferred sites for construction work remain unchanged, but pledges an … Continue reading

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TAC and the Riverfly Anglers Monitoring Initiative

The Thames Anglers Conservancy have become the first organisation on the Thames to have joined the Anglers Monitoring Initiative following a training day with the Riverfly Partnership. The Anglers Monitoring Initiative (AMI) was launched in 2007 to establish groups monitoring their local rivers. … Continue reading

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West Thames groundwater levels still low despite record rainfall

The Environment Agency has published its monthly Water Situation Report for the South East and despite record rainfall, groundwater levels in most aquifers are lower than normal for this time of year in the West Thames area.   Summary – … Continue reading

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Biogen fined almost £10,000 for polluting a Bedfordshire stream

Leading anaerobic digestion company Biogen UK Ltd been fined £5,000 by Bedford Magistrates’ Court for polluting one mile of a Bedfordshire stream. The Environment Agency said the pollution was avoidable and it should have been notified sooner so that the … Continue reading

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Serious oil spill along the River Bourne

Environment Agency officers have been out since first light to assess the extent of a major oil spill along the River Bourne in Hampshire– one of the country’s most important salmon fishing rivers. Environment Agency officers are doing everything they … Continue reading

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Angling Trust calls for a fresh approach to water supply and storage

The Angling Trust has called on politicians to recognise that England needs a completely fresh approach to water supply and storage in order to end the chronic wastage of water in times of flood and the environmentally damaging over abstraction … Continue reading

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