The Sandwell Local Plan (SLP) is a manifesto for house building and offers nothing for wildlife or its remaining fragmented habitat. Unfortunately it mirrors a national policy made by corrupt political scum of all main parties who have made it this way by classifying wildlife in terms of “units” and “credits” which are transferable to tick a box. We are therefore introduced to the terms “biodiversity net gain”, “biodiversity credits” and “nature recovery strategy maps” which are meaningless theoretical bollocks allowing desk jockeys for environmental consultancies (planning enablers), with not much time on their hands to spend outdoors, but plenty of time to drink their lattes in a cosy warm office preparing shite like this.
Two terms are defined and are important to this post, but they are largely theoretical and wordy . I have underlined the statement below which is crucial.
Biodiversity net gain definition
“An approach to development and land management that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand. The objective requires the biodiversity value attributable to a development to exceed pre-development biodiversity value by at least 10%. Post-development biodiversity value may comprise onsite habitat, offsite biodiversity gain and biodiversity credits.”
Nature Recovery Network definition
“An expanding, increasingly connected, network of wildlife-rich habitats supporting species recovery, alongside wider benefits such as carbon capture, water quality improvements, natural flood risk management and recreation. It includes the existing network of protected sites and other wildlife rich habitats as well as and landscape or catchment scale recovery areas where there is co ordinated action for species and habitats.”
The SNE2 policy that the council have produced in the SLP is shown below and explains their rationale.
I put in an FOI to Sandwell council regards the nonsense they had spouted about certain sites they had considered in a cabinet report prior to the publication of the current plan out for consultation. I wanted to know which consultancy had drawn up the garbage as well as the methodology used to produce the eight listed sites.
The council replied and gave me a link to the study below conducted by an entity called “Lepus consulting” who also are behind the sustainability appraisal for the SLP.
So let us interrogate this document and see it for what it is, which is a very weak report full of theory, very little practical surveying and omissions of certain sites which do not make sense.
“Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) has commissioned Lepus Consulting to undertake a study to identify and undertake an assessment of habitats within council-owned sites in Sandwell to establish their suitability for use as potential habitat banks for the delivery of BNG.”
The first thing to point out is that SMBC ignore privately owned sites- the ones that are most likely to be built upon and which are also the most likely to be destroy wildlife habitat that has naturally re-wilded, like the ones off Rattechain SH35 and SH36.
“In the State of the Nature Report in 2019 headline data indicated that the abundance and distribution of the UK’s biodiversity has, on average, declined since 1970, with a 13% decline in average species abundance3 . This is attributable to a number of pressures including intensive farming, climate change and urbanisation which have led to pollution, habitat loss and degradation.”
I do not argue with their opening statements, but the threat of “urbanisation” is exactly what the SLP is proposing in real terms.
We learn that Sandwell has nine nature reserves, including Sheepwash which is also a SINC but looking at a map of these sites on page 32 of the PDF you can see how grossly disproportionate nature reserves are in Sandwell with only one in Tipton and none at all in Wednesbury, Smethwick or Oldbury- this makes up four of Sandwell’s six towns!
Why is West Bromwich stacked with nature reserves and little elsewhere?
The meat on the bones of this pathetic report is revealed at 6.2 onwards.
They only visited sites once due to “time constraints” Why is time a factor in this report, as it seems that this was done by the council on the hoof to attempt a hurried justification of coming up with random sites they could use.
They visited in the summer months when nature is probably at its most secretive with increased footfall of people. Different species are obviously present at different times of year, and passage migrant species do not appear to have even come into the equation of “biodiversity”.
They do not appear to have used any Eco record reports, or local information of groups like sandnats, or certainly Friends of Sheepwash to inform their observations or knowledge of sites. They undertook no “bio-blitz” of any site.
They could not even map some areas
They do not even attempt to investigate water habitats at all, again due to “time constraints”.
“Further assessments” needed- because theirs was not good enough.
The worst part about this whole “strategy” is the failure to even look at privately owned sites. These are the ones of course like SH35 and SH36 on the doorstep of Sheepwash and in the nature recovery area map that the council expect will be boosted by a 10% increase in on site biodiversity. Has it not occurred to these idiots that they do not have any knowledge of what nature exists on these sites but they expect developers will be honest about what is there so that their paid liars of environmental consultants will produce a report claiming that they can boost BNG by 10% by creating a token hedge or swale (dirty surface water ditch ) like the one on the picture below?
Don’t try and tell me this has any nature value FFS. It’s a dirty fucking ditch!
The cracker can best be described a “a pikey horse and car dumping shithole”. There is no point boosting biodiversity in such a place as the frequent weed dumping disposal in buckets is the only thing growing there, and they have only created this for political reasons due to Princes End ward being a swing seat area.
The Menzies open space contains the contaminated Millpool or Milky- contaminated by Bitumenous waste that was not prevented from being further polluted ironically when the site was turned into housing! The remediation fraud of the developers were not protected by any body including the EA and the useless officers at Sandwell council, harming wildlife and causing significant pollution to an already contaminated water body. The cover up by all concerned was massive and a disgrace.
I set the Millpool story out in four parts which offer definitive proof of why post reclamation of industrial sites and brownfield land destroys nature and habitat.
Of course Lepus know nothing of this as they do not have time, but do not even look at improving the water habitat at the pool either!
There is no explanation as to why private sites were not identified as habitat banks or even surveyed.
There has to be concern that this very point has already surfaced with the planning application at the Coneygree site in Tipton- owned by the same entity who now proposes sites SH35 and SH36 and previously by the conmen foundry sand dumpers who abandoned it and left both sites in the state they are in and future dependent on money from the public purse.
The council had no policy when this farce unfolded due to national policy failure, but they do not appear to recognise they will have no basis of knowledge as to the real nature value of these private sites.
As it is, we are aware that the former Duport’s Tip area next to Rattlechain contains a rare butterfly- the small blue, (Cupido minimus), Britain’s smallest butterfly as well as the associated kidney vetch which its caterpillars eat. It is protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981 and a priority species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. I had a site walkover with naturalist Darrell Harrison who found the butterfly and several unusual plants on the site of local rarity.
Small blue on kidney vetch Darrell Harrison seen at the SH35 area in June 2024.
Of course such sites already connected to Sheepwash and the wildlife corridor of the canal could be used as habitat banks, but if only someone would tell Sandwell council that instead of wanting to shove more trees into dog shit parks like Tividale to tick a box.
It is also interesting that just this week the leader of Sandwell council has proposed an animal welfare taskforce policy. I have concerns that this will be nothing more than a pontificating talking shop like the unsound policy SNE2 above, but what is interesting is one of the claims in the new vision Notice of Motion – 29 October 2024.
Earlier this week there was an announcement that read like an apocalypse had befallen The Walsall Canal with a “chemical spillage” considered so dangerous that 12 miles of surrounding connecting canal towpaths were closed and boat traffic shut off, effectively stranding anyone on a narrow boat from moving up or down three sets of locks.
As someone who is obviously acutely aware of the damage that chemicals can do in the environment and how these incidents destroy wildlife, I was very concerned about what had happened and feared the worst due to the measures being taken that the authorities were considered necessary. Other people were contacting me about the situation and were concerned about the effects on bird life on the canal system in the area.
What transpired was very poor information being released, particularly about WHAT chemical had been released into the canal, the circumstances and the QUANTITY and SOURCE, and the PATHWAYit had taken to reach the water.
It was all a bit vague but it appeared that multiple agencies were involved including Walsall Council, the CRT and EA as well as The bizarre UKHSA- formerly Public Health England. For some reason, they were very keen that people did not touch the water, eat any fish from the canal or walk along the towpaths.
Eventually it was claimed that Sodium Cyanide had entered the canal, but no source or company named. This chemical obviously rings alarm bells with the public as a deadly poison, although it is actually less poisonous than white phosphorus found in Rattlechain lagoon, and which of course was spilt liberally into the canal system on route from Trinity Street to Rattlechain via the upper BCN toxic trail route. Were the canals closed then, and the boats stopped? NO THEY WERE NOT AS BRITISH WATERWAYS AS THEY THEN WERE WERE TOTALLY COMPLICIT IN CAUSING THE POLLUTION AND ENCOURAGING IT, EVEN USING ALBRIGHT AND WILSON’S VILE SHIT HOLE THEMSELVES AS A MEANS OF DUMPING THEIR OWN DREDGINGS TO CONTINUE THE GHASTLY BOAT TRAIL POLLUTING SPECTACLE.
As for protecting public health, what a fucking joke when people involved in carrying the toxic waste by canal boat were harmed in the process, so what hope for any other bugger that touched or came into contact with the water, let alone any wildlife or fish?
Fast forward to 2024 and the Canal and Rivers Trust are now a charity and corporate PR brand. They are largely funded by fishing licences or fishing rights being sold and of course boat licences. The latter regularly cause widespread damage to wildlife with their toxic snail diesel and hydraulic oil releases- particularly in the Walsall area. Even recently this occurred and many birds died and yet no boats were stopped from moving by the CRT on some bloody “explorer cruise”- basically a jolly for elder people along a stretch of canal ending with a fish and chip supper at some pub. The hypocrisy could not be more stark, given that this particular incident did not effect any fish in the canal, just wildfowl.
The EA are of course a longstanding joke also, as I regularly evidence in my unfortunate dealings in reporting issues to these hapless, unknowledgeable and talentless individuals. They were and are happy with a bunch of wankers dumping toxic waste under water under a useless licence auspice, even pumping it back into the canal blissfully unaware that they were doing so given they have no means of testing the water for the toxic chemical, but when some fish deaths occur it is suddenly a red alert for them.
Enter the bullshit classification system they use, which I looked at HERE. Of course when fish die they claim a “category 1” incident. For other areas that have no fish and no fish deaths they don’t care- hence Rattlechain and also Smethwick Hall Park caused by Severn Trent Water’s sewage pollution and failure to trace and stop misconnections entering the water. The hypocrisy and interest over the money making source for the EA and CRT could not be more stark. Fish matter because they are keeping these individuals in jobs, birds are not, and that is the bottom line.
SODIUM CYANIDE- AN INFAMOUS POISON FROM THE PAST.
I have previously looked at this chemical and how “deadly barrels” of it were dumped in the early 1970’s leading to the authorities starting to take environmental dumping more seriously. The West Midlands served as a particular hotspot with National news running a series of scares about what had in reality been occurring for too long. Marl holes and tips and brooks were easy dumping grounds for “people of the road” paid by scum companies to deposit their waste with no questions asked. Tatters with tippers were a common menace.
Both Rattlechain and Gower Tips had dumpings, with Albright and Wilson feigning ignorance which I frankly do not believe.
The properties of cyanide mean that it produces highly toxic breakdown chemicals when in contact with water.
NaCN + H2O ⇄ NaOH + HCN
Sodium hydroxide and Hydrogen cyanide are produced, the later being a highly toxic and flammable gas.
Anochrome Limited- who are they?
Eventually and after an uncomfortable lack of information on the source, an electro plating company based a scant 100 metres from the canal were named. This industrial concern based in Reservoir Place, Walsall claims to have been operating on its website since 1946. It has three current directors, at least two of whom appear to be successors of a family line. Managing Director Mark Jones appears to have taken over from his father Andrew. Secretary Andrew Keery, and Robert Gray complete the triumvirate.
They have a number of subsidiary companies, including Wolverhampton Electro plating Limited based in Wolverhampton. It is of note that all three directors are now giving a care of address for this company rather than the one in Walsall. I take some interesting observations from this concerning the state of their finances and the future of “Anochrome limited” as an operation.
Historically, this company have form for polluting the environment via criminal negligence.
The 12th December 1978 Wolverhampton Express and Star reported how they had been fined a rather paltry £245 for cyanide and toxic metals going down the drains
In 1981, and via The Sandwell Evening Mail of 27th June , we see a repeat performance of this , on this occasion a whopping £280 for illegal trade effluent discharges including zinc. This particular metal is of concern as it is a neurological poison to wild birds and people and is very similar to lead poisoning in high levels in this regard.
In 1992 there was a fire sparking another chemical alert with two staff needing treatment.
Sandwell Evening Mail 23/5/92
A more recent event reveals this company were fined by The HSE for breaches under The Health and Safety At Work Act. This was in 2018.
Of course, the three directors are ultimately responsible for all that goes on here, all that goes wrong on their site and anything that occurs illegally or by “accident”
I am not certain if they are the electroplating company mentioned in THIS article concerning cyanide dumping, but it confirms the absolute lack of integrity of this industry at large in terms of failing to protect the environment and adhere to laws. Ultimately, they argue about quantities within “legal” limits. THE LIMITS OF COURSE SHOULD BE ZERO.
MY DIRECT OBSERVATIONS AND HEAD SCRATCHING ABOUT THIS INCIDENT BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ISSUES.
There are some questions and issues which do not make sense to me about this incident which almost made me question as to if it is a hoax and a multi agency training exercise, just to keep the public under fear about something which is not really there.
Police tape and plastic barriers stopping people from going down the towpath. If there was some deadly gas being given off or prospect of such then fair enough. BUT the road in Reservoir Place remains open to the public.
Businesses in this road near to the canal were carrying on as normal. People were at work. People stationed above the bridges stopping people going onto the towpath were not wearing any breathing apparatus, PPE or gloves. There sojourn there for a length of time is similarly puzzling if there is some major danger in this “epicentre” area. How were they measuring levels of gas being evolved- I saw nothing to monitor this.
Work on the highly contaminated former Copper Works immediately next to the claimed effected canal continues apace with vehicles and staff coming and going from John Hunt who are carrying out the work to facilitate industrial units on the reclaimed “brownfield” site. Of course, what fate the canal has when these industries move in next door we will have to wait and see. Hopefully they will not be dealing in chemicals, FFS!
No “pandemics” or pollution spills stop the construction industry where politicians and their cronies have laid their nest eggs
The Anochrome building appears to be being decommissioned. This ties in with the change of C/O address on the Companies house website for the directors. There is Heras fencing blocking the site, and people again wearing only basic PPE and not hazmat suits, including a security guard obviously there to stop journalists asking pointed questions of anyone there. Crap was being loaded into a skip, and I do not believe that this had anything to do with any spillage of a company still at work in this building.
Lettering has been removed from the building recently.
There were the press and people from CRT giving interviews on the bridge without any apparent danger to health, and certainly no adverse health effects were observed by myself when I was there.
A few dead fish. I have seen major fish deaths along canals- caused by boaters stirring up silt and by pollution from Companies like Robinson’s– again this was The Walsall Canal. Having cycled from Walsall town centre I saw no dead fish, and none in any distress. Only on reaching Reservoir Place were there any dead fish, and these were small. To suggest that this has been a “major” fish kill as it stands is not supported by factual evidence, is misinformation and a made up lie.
I observed no dead or ill birds, either on route to the epicentre or at it itself. Indeed, ducks were dabbling right next to the few dead fish, making me question if the spillage is one of bullshit and little else?
Ducks in the “deadly” water next to the “poisoned” fish
It was stated by someone from the CRT that they had been told they could not remove the fish because of the toxicity of the water and the fish themselves. I asked if any dead birds had been seen or removed and the answer was in the negative. This is of concern and questionable, as would not fish eating birds be poisoned if they eat the “poisoned” fish?
Compare this to the rather slow testing they claim to be doing on the canal at various locations. Surely if they thought there was imminent risk they would have a much quicker turnover of results now days later?
The only gas I could see being emitted is one of gaslighting the public that something major has occurred here affecting such a wide area. That is not my direct observation and the evidence does not support that it has.
Just to state that any pollution issue like this is a disgrace and the book should be thrown at Anochrome and its directors for their failure.
Is this an opportunity for certain players to blow their own trumpets, like the covid 19 hoax frit civil service, who for the last 4 years hiding under a rock and shirking from home pop up to attempt to justify a pay increase that they have some actual importance in society when a magic money tree Labour Government get in? Of course, good socialists , junior doctors and anyone involved in the mysterious world of fake doctor “public health” want everything you have in the private sector on top of their gold plated pensions- that is except your job which would involve them doing some actual fucking work where they might be sacked if they had the amount of time off that they have on permanent maternity leave or some other stubbed toe or bad back/”long covid”/mental elf made up condition excuse.
I’m just waiting for some fucking clown to link or attempt to link this incident to “climate change” Give it time- they usually find some bizarre and irrational means of doing so to justify their warped insane cult of doom and “faith” in scientists and academia saving them.
We live in an age of fear mongering, of “forbidden zones” and scenarios like the film The Village where instruction not to do something appears with asinine bellows of “you shall not pass”. It is the liberal left – those in the civil service, who appear to think we are fucking stupid and should not question their bizarre nonsensical diktats like not crossing a line of tape because The Emperor’s new calamity will befall us and to “trust the science” because that is unquestionable. Well it is questionable and I question it for the reasons stated above which do not add up. This is not “conspiracy” it is common sense, something which appears to have gone out of the window of late and is fuelled by a media clamouring for such events to report on. They should be questioning this as I am, but they don’t because they are crap and parrots of the New World Order that is being forged.
Many sections of the canal have now been opened back up, and it remains to be seen what will happen with the area still closed off and under scrutiny. 4,000 litres of chemicals were spilt according to the latest EA update, which is roughly about 22 baths worth. For the birds, they will carry on probably affected more by the boats that will now be moving again and spreading their shite as rainbows on the water. Will the CRT or EA care about that? So long as no fish are affected will they fuck.
Another polluted canal in Walsall, of the type of pollution that is not economically viable to draw attention to because no fish are affected.
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The issues at this site have been going on for years……
So after five years, we come again to this unresolved issue of a failed privatised water company, unable to stop it claims, houses that are misconnected to their asset pouring vile water and other detritus into this small pool in Smethwick. In 2019 Smethwick Hall Park sawraw sewage enter the lake resulting in the deaths of dozens of birds.
Note that 20 misconnections were identified in the EA NIRS report based on info given to them at this time by STW
The catchment for this brook which enters at Margaret Gardens is claimed to be large, and runs through both culverted and unculverted sections including the allotments in Manor Road. We know that this has seen sewage as well as oil like substances pollute the lake and impact birds terribly. For much of that time, we have been fighting a battle without any political help.
There are numerous strands to this story, and so first the latest issue, where not long after spotting a dead mallard in the water, I then saw several ill birds as well as dead ones a few days later. This and the clinical signs are typical botulism- as was the case in 2019. The water stank of washing machines and was white at the outlet where it enters the pool.
A goose, a couple of coots and two ducks were rescued alive, with others picked up dead on the island. It was clear that the lake supposedly desilted in part by an SMBC contractor after STW shafted the council and turned down a £250,000 bid to their so called “community fund” was not a very good job I am afraid to say. The silt levels are too high, and in the dirty bath attempt at an interceptor to call it, this I had to complain about at the time of these works was not done because the mechanical digger could not get in there properly. This was later done by shovelling it out by hand, but it needs to be done regularly I believe due to the garbage that settles in here from the STW asset. Another problem is that the contaminated material was just banked to land. This was not the right thing to do with regards to botulism, which remains in soil and can reactivate in hotter conditions. Worms enter soil, birds eat the worms, and thus begins the process again.
The public were misled by these signs during the contaminated silt removal- it was not “mud” !
BOTULISM – The true manmade pandemic affecting wild birds.
The fact is is that these deaths do not occur on all pools in the summer, and do not occur as a result of “climate change” or anything else. They occur due to linked pollution events where sewage and human waste enters waters where it never should have and this then starts the poisoning of the environment by the die off of small invertebrates which are then ingested by the wildfowl.
A duck clings to life surrounded by human rubbish in the pool
Another not lucky enough to survive dead on the island
Severn Trent water and their ghastly lies.
The sign below was put up by this failed water company after the 2019 shit show. It claims that it wants people to help them protect the environment by calling their number to report issues. What the reality is is that if they report issues to the EA before the EA report issues to them they can escape being fined more heavily. Never ring Severn Trent. Report matters to the EA direct on 0800 80 70 60.
When you do report matters to them, they claim it is not they who are responsible for the pollution- hence private residencies polluting with misconnections should be dealt with and enforced by the EA.
Dirty white water that smells sitting in the collection overspill that goes into the lake.
sanitary towel floating in SHP.
I have so far put in two complaints to STW, and I am still awaiting someone called James- “catchment lead” to call me, this after being stated I would be contacted within 24 hours. This did not happen. This Jimbo is obviously aware of the longstanding issue, given someone by that name is named on the 2019 incident report. (See top of this post). 😮
For show, this turned up and appears to be a sub contractor of STW, no doubt to try to collate data to get them off the hook. Follow the money and who pays for the science rather than the science is what I would say.
Sandwell council at my request have now put up better signage rather than “report dead birds”, which suggests that the birds may be dying from avian flu, to an uninformed public.
Just to be clear, there is no avian flu circulating in the country or the area, as I have repeatedly pointed out. Just 14 cases in the UK recorded this year in wild birds and none since April which puts it in line with 2020 records.
Garfield’s Severn stench racked up a recorded 440,000 hours of spillages of sewage, the fourth worst. SO LET US HAVE A LITTLE MORE SINCERITY ON THE INCREASE IN BOTULISM ISSUES IN WILD BIRDS RATHER THAN FAKE AVIAN FLU.
Credit, DAILY MAIL
Meeting with STW and others in 2019 for context
I am now putting on public record a meeting which took place at Shidas Lane organised by Sandwell council after the issue arose in 2019. This meeting was attended by several organisations, and it is noted that the EA were conspicuous by their absence- just like their environmental protection and attendance at incident reports like this.
This gives information as to what STW were claiming back then, and some points I would like to clarify.
“TB presented slides which showed mis connections/intermittent connections, 1400 properties in the current catchment area. Severn Trent currently undergoing continued investigations reliant on weather conditions working with SMBC to gain entry where necessary.”
This was at the time when these two claimed to be working together.
“TB produced map showing scale of pool and feeds into the pool area. TB stated depth of pool is shallow reducing oxygen levels, in turn warms the water quicker.”
I would certainly agree with this statement, but it ignores the fact that debris is coming out of the STW asset.
“TB clarified avian botulism not found in domestic sewage.”
This is a typical non denial denial. Sewage creates avian botulism in pools such as this where conditions exist. To claim that sewage does not contain avian botulism is not the issue here, but it attempts to divert attention away from the lie that it is not causing the bird deaths.
“IC stated that raw sewage had entered pool water as described in National incident Reporting Scheme ( NIRS) reports he had obtained via FOI from the Environment agency , and was also present in the silt, as confirmed by the tests carried out by the environment agency taken at the last meeting, Further explaining that human excrement was found in this water and he gave examples of bird deaths in pool containing raw sewage.”
All of this information is in the public domain already and on many blog posts on this website.
“TB stated Severn Trent were not eliminating that the misconnections had contributed to the poor water quality which, in turn, had contributed to the bird deaths.”
So in a nutshell, here we have a STW employee state the truth that misconnections CAN cause the birds serious harm, but in a totally disingenuous way.
The statement below from the APHA is of great interest regards avian flu deaths and cases in the UK over the last few years.
botulism is killing birds in the UK, in large numbers but why are the public so misled regards bird flu being the big killer?
It should be stated that just as “avian flu” testing was ramped up in the UK, so avian botulism testing appears to have been shelved. I am certain that many many birds that died from botulism have been falsely attributed to AI as the ludicrous twats at Birmingham City Council attempted to do to cover up their shite abysmal management of lakes.
As someone with over 25 years of monitoring birds, I consider myself fully competent at diagnosing clinical signs of botulism. Many of the birds caught alive have made full recoveries, based on being identified early.
A subsequent request to SMBC later on from this meeting revealed what STW had claimed to have done up to that point.
“Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you, we are still waiting for a formal response letter to be sent through regarding the issues discussed in our meeting with STW in early September. We contacted them to chase this and at the same time asked them for an update regarding the current situation with misconnections.
The information provided by STW is as follows:
STW are still working on identifying misconnections and to date have surveyed 181 properties with a further 61 properties remaining to be surveyed. Since our last meeting with them they have surveyed 36 properties.
Out of the properties surveyed, 11 misconnections have been formally identified, to date 3 have now been corrected. STW are still waiting for residents at the remaining 8 properties to rectify their identified misconnections.
STW have installed 3 cages on the system to catch any debris that might be flowing through to the pool, we understand that these are being maintained every 2 weeks. The cages/ screens are a temporary measure while they are still surveying surrounding properties.
In addition to the above update, we can also confirm that contractors have carried out the additional sediment removal that you highlighted during our site visit.”
THIS WAS 2021, SO WHAT DID STW DO SINCE THIS, AND HOW MANY MISCONNECTIONS ARE THEY CLAIMING ARE STILL PRESENT?
PERHAPS IT IS TIME THE POLITICAL LEADERS AT SANDWELL COUNCIL IF THERE ARE ANY, STARTED ASKING SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS OF THE SCUM FROM COVENTRY?
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Severn Trent led by their liar PR merchant Liv Garfield are one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with, and nearly as bad as Albright and Wilson/Rhodia in their denials that their operations directly led to the deaths of wildfowl. They have a longstanding shameful record which I looked at HERE. They discharge years worth of sewage into watercourses every year, and it is not getting any better, whatever the claim.
“64 years worth of raw sewage dumped into rivers and streams by Severn Trent”
2020 figures and the “proud” bint sips from her bottled water in political company
The latest press offers more shame for this failed CEO and her garbage environmental terrorist company. The Mirror thus reported
“Severn Trent was responsible for more than 60,000 sewage spills last year, as the amount of wastewater discharged by the company rose by a third.”
Garfield’s personal wealth increased by £3.2 million in 2023 as did the rotten shareholder scum. If you are a STW shareholder reading this, then I hope you die of cancer, it is that simple.
Of course, STW fit hand in hand with the corrupt politicians and their land banking and construction industry house building brownfield fraud. They buy and sell land for this purpose, as I investigated HERE.
The Express and Star recently interviewed the lame duck joke Sunak with one question regard the increased interest in sewage spills. I have to say this paper were not in the least fucking interested in reporting the truth in 2019 on their own patch about STW and just regurgitated their lying spin rather than listening to what I was saying. At least there is some momentum now in this regard and a little less protection of these bastards from Coventry.
Disgusting water industry lies promoted by mainstream media
In this snippet from that interview, for some reason, the “journalist” asked Sunak about The River Severn- not in any way a part of the Black Country area. I digress, E/S however appears to be dying out as a title, and the smart money is that it will fold in its current form very soon indeed. They appear to now front an “East Edition” whilst on social media they now hide most articles behind a paywall and something called “national world”- nothing to do with this area either.
Sunak reveals himself to be a bare faced fucking liar- no surprise there. The EA have not been given any powers, as I have already pointed out, they allow the polluters to mark their own work. They fail to take action by using the useless NIRS scheme downplaying anything non fish related as a lower ranked category of incident. They allow sewage pollution to continue with pride and I question many who work for this organisation and their integrity in public office.
The EA like this Government are not fit for purpose, and the truth is after being set up by Labour and run by that Government for many years after, they never have been a competent authority. Ofwat similarly are an industry shill joke. The politicians have made it this way. THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT.
Scumdog millionaires
One incident recently linked to the disgraceful botulism deaths in the Erdington area suggests that there was a sewage spill into one of the lakes in question according to a local. A pipe way into the pool is very suggestive of what we also saw in Smethwick and the adjacency to the so called “eco hub” built quite recently may also suggest a misconnection to further shame and embarrass the useless fucking Labour council who built and approved it.
The EA of course did not attend, but a so called “supervisor” from STW rang me back claiming that the ammonia levels were low. I did say that the spill had been claimed to have happened a few months earlier coinciding with the first noted deaths. It would therefore not be unreasonable to believe that solids may have sank weeks later and that birds could have ingested these when feeding. Once this botulism cycle starts, it continues long after the sewage floaters have sunk. As with the rattlechain story, they don’t test water when it is the solids below it that are the problem. This joker also told me that they did not test oxygen levels as some types of algae skew the results. What absolute fucking bollocks!
Another incident I reported definitely involved sewage as I could smell it. This watercourse, The Hockley Brook I am unfamiliar with, but it appears to also originate in the Smethwick area leading towards Birmingham and joining The River Tame. The view from Cuckoo Road shows the stained brickwork and sludge- growing green algae. I wonder if this type of algae skews the oxygen results? 😆
Despite this, and reporting the same a few weeks later someone claiming to be from the EA claimed that I had reported the wrong location and it had not been put through, also stating that there were no Severn Trent assets in the area. Well “Angela”, are you talking about the several miles of this brook. I do not enjoy being gaslighted by Severn Trent “assets” planted within the public sector.
These issues in both Smethwick and Birmingham show how botulism is entirely caused by sewage releases and environmental poor management. Botulism is the truth of death that fake “avian flu” is being constructed to hide. The politicians are keen to promote fake bird flu as it forms a distraction away from the public health farce of the failed privatised water industry which they created. Botulism has killed and continues to kill more wildfowl in waterways than avian flu. The authorities have just created a system where the real cause of death is not tested for. They cover up the truth as do the media. Their globalist “one health” agenda steered by the Microsoft child jabber weirdo is geared towards another pandemic hoax like covid 19.
Once again, we are asked to vote for the scum in Westminster next month. I decline, I am not going to participate. Just as they attempt to say we should be prepared for some emergency eventuality that they suggest may happen, (including packing bottled water not from the tap) 😉 such as a climate change hoax, a plandemic hoax or WW3 hoax, they also pass laws for ever more draconian fascist enterprise to feather their own nests by resetting industries to which they have invested their money. If you cannot see this by now there really is no hope for you.
We are taught history as being simply “good guys” and “bad guys” and that point of view is based upon the victors view of the world after war. They press us with D days dabbing their eyes plotting to send more young men to die in some foreign country camel dung shit holes and talk of how our freedoms were won by this previous generation which is nothing more than messiah religious bullshit. Victory in 1945 merely spawned a whole host of Adolph Hitler imitators planning a one world Government agenda from the shadows. Cenotaphs and memorial days serve as recruiting sergeants for an equally fooled next generation that freedom can be won whilst they are in charge. The present political class appear to paint themselves as good guys, but it is not their view to make. At times in our history there have come moments when the ballot box is simply no longer a valid means of overcoming oppression. Maybe the only thing we should be packing in our grab bags for freedom are the bomb and the bullet- history has taught us that it is never votes that change anything.
WE ONLY GET RID OF TURDS IN THE WATER WHEN THOSE IN THE ETERNAL SEA ARE ERADICATED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
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Just in time for Easter, new developments in the avian flu hoax recently have once again thrust the spotlight on those in Defra, The APHA and the UKHSA who are attempting to introduce controls and regulations to further take away the spotlight from the Nazi farmer concentration death camps of the poultry industry, virulent with diseases and infection amongst unnaturally housed birds, and instead put the blame on the general public for keeping a few chickens in their back yard.
A scam consultation by this ailing dead duck Tory wank show supposedly asked if all birds should be registered, instead of the compulsory number of 50 or above. The issue is covered well by the brilliant UK Column, and see video below, who during the Covid 19 poison vax hoax gave statistics and commentary of reason and scepticism which were well founded, where the mainstream media simply copied and pasted the narrative of proven liars and fake virologist talentless “scientists” like Neil Fergusson.
It is interesting, as I have pointed out before that Newcastle’s Disease– one entirely caused by the poultry death camp industry is now being seamlessly linked in with “avian flu”.
“This will help to manage potential disease outbreaks, such as avian influenza and Newcastle disease, and limit any spread.”
UK Government published symptoms of the poultry industry killer virus, and the one that has morphed into “avian flu”
I have always believed due to the symptoms of the latter, that DEFRA and the UK Government have lied and covered up the real cause of death of birds in the wild over the last two years, having had it spread to them by the poultry industry through release of faeces and infection into water courses like The River Wye.
The BBC article in the link above identifies that this river has along its catchment 25% of the UK poultry industry, and I am aware that one of the swans thought to have infected premises at Wychbold swan rescue during the first cases in 2022 came from this area. The river is being destroyed by chicken farming, and yet the apologists in DEFRA are putting up a smokescreen to protect and lie about this industry- possibly because they are getting back handers from it , or maybe there is an outside role in the industry when they inevitably “retire” from the public sector. 😉
Their protection of this economic genocide machine knows no bounds, and a scapegoat of “uncontrolled” birds is a very easy narrative to con people with. When will the public wake up to how this industry is poisoning them and the birds it produces are harmful to human health?
We have seen how when the Bernard Matthews factory was spreading avian flu in the early 2000’s, how public confidence in this sector fell apart and sales went through the floor. They fear that if the truth got out, and that the public knew it was this industry that was responsible for “bird flu”, then it would never recover again.
The purpose legend of the fake consultation was as follows.
Engineered for control purposes and not animal welfare and human health- of which there is no issue
Of course, the civil service scum, shills of the agricultural industry want to protect this industry at all costs, and so do the political class many of whom have farming interests. The outcome of the CONsultation had of course already been decided by this corrupt cabal. The biosecurity leaks are entirely due to the poultry industry, like the Bernard Matthews incident I looked at HERE which directly brought avian flu into the UK at an earlier date.
Yeah, let’s see how “careful” you were…..
It is incredible that organisations such as the vile CUNTryside alliance and the Two (ugly) Sisters were given the opportunity to comment on legislation that ones like the latter are entirely responsible for causing. Their premises are the ones that are shite, as are their joke “welfare” standards.
We see the result of the main question saw 75% of respondents want to keep the do nothing option, and reject the Government- shill poultry industry position of forced compliance.
Of course, we do not live in a democracy where the majority win- except of course the poisonous politicians who get in first past the post, and are there usually till death- which cannot ever come soon enough. Government spin in face of not implementing the will of the people saw them construct the following bullshit.
“We understand that the majority of the respondents felt the proposed changes are too bureaucratic and onerous.….. BUT We have carefully considered the responses on the options to extend the current poultry registration requirements, including the ‘do nothing’ option. The government recognises that although most respondents to the consultation disagreed with making changes to the current mandatory poultry registration requirements, there was agreement from a number of respondents to reduce the registration threshold from 50 birds to one or 10. “
“A number of respondents” were no doubt the cunts who are farming birds in cages in bulk numbers for their death camp trade.
“FARMER” BROWN RETIRES
One positive piece of news is that academic shill Ian Brown has now “retired” from the APHA. I looked at him and his work and the manner in which his obscene conflicts of interest were a disgrace to public policy HERE. His steering of this issue can be seen in the article below. He has clearly served his purpose, and one can only speculate if he will reappear in some other form like another marionette “expert” at The World Hoax Organisation for example. Good fucking riddance.
AVIAN FLU IS DYING OUT IN UK WILD BIRDS- FACT- BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THIS UNDENIABLY.
The whole thrust of these liars choices concerns the theory that wild birds are spreading the illness and are therefore capable somehow of transmitting this to humans by some as yet undetermined pathway- but probably through the food industry and farming-“the next pandemic” so the scary headlines read, and thus the research funding mechanism by which this scum pour poison into the ears of the thick policy makers, who are themselves corrupt to the core.
The UKHSA recently put out guidance via a series of scaremongering legacy media articles. Be in no doubt that this was deliberately timed to coincide with the four year anniversary of the Academic led imprisonment covid 19 hoax. What is worse is that the RSPCA were supportive of this. This organisation has shown itself at its very worst during the last three years, they are complicit in the spread of this lie and in the murder of wild birds without any compassion or treatment. They have forgotten their role in tracking and investigating wildlife crime, and are now active participants in that endeavour.
So let us fact check evidence of avian flu circulating in wild birds in the UK over the last 6 years, and specifically, the situation in the first three months of those years to see what exactly this “increased threat” consists of.
This Daily Mail scare line, there were others of the same ilk, makes numerous statements suggesting that avian flu is somehow out of control, which it is not. .
FIGURES FOR AVIAN FLU IN WILD BIRDS 2018- 2024
These results are direct from the APHA wild bird surveillance figures, and so let us use them against them for objective discussion.
SUMMARY OF POSITIVE CASES IN WILD BIRDS IN FIRST 12 WEEKS- SOURCE APHA, SEE FIGURES EVIDENCE IN LINKS ABOVE
In 2018 96 POSITIVE TESTS
In 20190 POSITIVE TESTS. IN FACT IN THIS YEAR THERE WERE ZERO CASES FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR!
In 20200 POSITIVE TESTS. There were no positive cases up to week 44.
In 2021 22 POSITIVE TESTS
In 2022 374 POSITIVE TESTS!
In 2023 234 POSITIVE TESTS
In 2024 10 POSITIVE TESTS
What can be seen in 2024 is that in the first three months of the year there were a total of just 10 cases up to week 12. This therefore demonstrates that far from increasing or being endemic in the wild bird population, avian flu is dying out and is at the same level as it was in 2020. How can the scientists account for this, and furthermore, why are they trying to portray something which simply is not supported by their own fucking evidence? No credible media outlet, journalist or anyone else with any credibility can claim that avian flu is increasing in the wild bird population in the UK, so let us drop the lie. There was a clear unexplained spike, and a terrible one which suggests a leak or contamination that was never there to date by migratory routes, and is not there now.
Headlines like the one below accompanied by pictures of people wearing masks appear to be a more sinister suggestion which is not based on any objective evidence.
The “experts” have been spreading lies and misinformation for years to keep their academic research theft from the public purse going.
Of course, they are desperate to keep the pandemic hoax of covid 19 going at all costs.
Utter fucking lies
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Virology is a fake and fraudulent numbers guess game of academia, and a dangerous one at that pouring cancer into the ears of hapless thick scum in Westminster. Never forget Fergusson and the Imperial Fascist London establishment that imprisoned us for nearly two years based upon his bullshit unsubstantiated divination. If this place burnt down to the ground today, and with all the professors of doom within it frazzled to death, our freedom would start tomorrow.
Fuck off and die you cunt
Fergusson is one of many “experts” that were wheeled out by legacy media during the “pandemic” hoax telling us what we should be doing and trying to change our behaviour whilst having his own shag party trysts on the side.
But if you take a look at this buffoons career, the warning signs were already there about his inflated and baseless prophecy fake science involving animal diseases and man. The end goal of useful idiots like Fergusson is the idea that academic institutions and their allied big pharma funders can steal from the public purse to produce useless vaccines after meddling with animal diseases and ending up causing zoonosis rather than preventing it.
Fergusson appears to have started his cull it R rate bullshit with the 2001 Foot and mouth debacle, exposing the useless Government Department of MAFF, which just conveniently changed its name to DEFRA in an attempt to cover its tracks. Over 6 million cows and sheep were killed in this agricultural holocaust. Imperial College London were all over this policy, and it should come as no surprise that individuals connected to this were heavily involved with The Welcome Trust- a fake “charity” front for big pharma with series conflicts of interest.
There’s more on this little saga below, but safe to say that we appear to be the Guinea pigs used in a scientific spat between academics both wanting Government attention and funding. WE SHOULD ALWAYS SCRUTINISE THE SCIENCE AND THOSE TELLING US WHAT TO DO, AND DISTRUST ALL OF IT WHEN WE SEE WHY THEY DO NOT AGREE ON THE “SCIENCE”.
The acolyte Fergusson appears to have stepped out of his master’s shadow the following year with BSE. The following Irish Independent piece from 10th January 2002 is of note.
This piece confirms that it was never transmitted to sheep. This however is where Fergusson and his ilk step in, with the same repeat playbook that should by now show that their research funding should be cut. The alarmist reports and high human death numbers, totally unfounded, are not scientific evidence but numbers game estimates based on a false premise.
Fergusson’s study claimed that 150, 000 people could die from eating sheep organs, but obviously this never happened other that the alarming clickbait headline the legacy media so love.
FACT CHECK- Another fake Fergusson/ Imperial College London prediction scare story
Not content with farm animals , NF then turned his attention to birds- perhaps not surprisingly we see the present day context of scare story bullshit like that below still being played out by academia/big pharma and their bunged whores in the civil service nearly 20 years later.
Again the Irish Independent 4th August 2005 shows the context of the time.
“JUST THREE WEEKS TO DEFEAT BIRD FLU”- YEAH SURE.
FACT CHECK- Another fake Fergusson/ Imperial College London prediction scare story
The story paints that big threat of “IF“, but of course that if never comes. The other device is a reminder of a previous pandemic that happened after war, when unsanitary conditions were prevalent and no drugs existed to stop it. This is of course the USP of these big pharma led and funded academic fraudsters. The World Hoax Organisation is quoted as having stocks of tamiflu, which we will look at further below. Britain it is claimed would be “overwhelmed” by avian flu if it did not buy large amounts of the big pharma snake oil.
Fergusson is not going to save “millions of lives” because no one was ever at risk. Millions for big pharma is what this is really all about. Roche is quoted in the piece, which will again be important in connection with this man’s correlated dire claims of doom.
Four years later, and of course H5N1 never infected the world at all, and still hasn’t. Another alarmist piece of fiction emerged in the 29th April 2009 same paper, and this time Fergie the lurgy was in porcine pursuit of a mega payday for his pharma funders.
Swine Flu until covid-19 came along was the biggest medical inspired hoax for producing vaccines that were never needed.
It was first identified in Mexico in April 2009. H1N1 became known as “swine flu” because it is similar to flu viruses that affect pigs. It barely affected anyone, except the very young who were already ill. The WHO however declared a “pandemic” in 2009, and we can see “who” was behind the dire fake science from the article below.
FACT CHECK- Another fake Fergusson/ Imperial College London prediction scare story
Fake claims made in this story are
nearly half the population of Europe would be affected- FALSE
The terminator is referenced to give the story a global pandemic spin
Fergusson predicted a seasonal epidemic of swine flu. Of course flu season happens every year, did before this and did afterwards- but this was the first attempt through the media by this fraudster and his team at repackaging the common into something more terrifying that never existed. The goal of this was to produce a vaccine that was never needed and which eventually faded into the seasonal flu jab.
We also see here the use of travel restrictions and face masks, and there is no doubt that this was a planned event or stepping stone as to what we had in 2020, ten years later.
This story was then ramped up further with more untruthful lying crap. The 13th May II was at it again. This time the narrative was linking it with vaccines in connection to the dire fake prediction.
FACT CHECK- Another fake Fergusson/ Imperial College London prediction scare story
Fergusson’s bullshit team claimed that a third of the world population would be infected- FALSE IT NEVER HAPPENED
This pillock “scientist” cannot say if it will cause mass deaths or be ordinary flu- which of course it was. It would be like saying, it may rain today, or it may not.
Fergusson’s position at the Hoax organisation is critical in steering them towards tamiflu.
Fergusson deflects on answering numbers put projects to a later time of flu season when he claims we would only then know the effects. This has been another tactic used in the covid 19 hoax of course, encouraging people to have injections in the Autumn by scaring them into thinking they will become ill in the Winter.
It comes as no surprise that Fergusson’s “expertise” is remarkably linked to the makers of Tamiflu- Roche. Many others involved with this at the WHO were also bankrolled whores to big pharma.
“In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide. They have made them squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.”
WOW- DOES THIS SOUND VERY VERY FAMILIAR TO WHAT WE ARE NOW SEEING AGAIN IN 2024?
THIS PIECE SHOWS WHY THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT TRUSTED SCIENTISTS BECAUSE THEIR “SCIENCE” AND CONCLUSIONS ARE BOUGHT SCAREMONGERING AND HEADLINE GRABBING PREDICTION. IT’S TIME THE WORLD WOKE UP TO THE NEXT HOAX STUDY AND CHICKEN LITTLE “PANDEMICS”- WE HAVE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE AND IT NEVER HAPPENS.
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A consultation on fishing in Sandwell took place with a view to implementing a charges policy and clarity over which pools could and could not be fished. The outcome of that was discussed in the report which went to Scrutiny below.
Unfortunately, and because of local elections, the outcome of this going to cabinet for approval has been delayed until at least June. 😕 The forward plan sets this timetable, and it was also confirmed verbally by a senior officer in the council.
I can only say that we have seen 20+ years of a policy that was already there, but which for one reason or another has never really been implemented or enforced- and the lack of money made by the council confirms that. I suppose the impact of lost and discarded tackle won’t make that much difference to the birds in the next three months as they are well used to the scum who leave rubbish behind having engaged in a three day drug and drink induced stupor in a tent. Luckily there are those that care and do something about it. Only this week, the RSPCA were talking about the amount of call outs regards litter impacting wildlife, which in the case of birds is linked almost exclusively to this single activity, indeed a figure of 40% of the total litter call outs were angling litter.
“The receivers are coming…” Spent millions on promoting this shit and ended up pissing it up the wall.
SO IT BEGINS…….
This post serves as an update on this incompetently run authority which I last reported on back in August. The scene in most of their shit run and “managed” parks is one of debris in every lake, dying trees rotting in the water and dead birds becoming infested with maggots which leads to outbreaks of botulism every year. It is a situation which mirrors the political imbeciles who run the show and their lacky unionised arseholes who somehow believe that “equality” means that an entire generation should pay the retirement packages of the civil servants who believe themselves to be more equal than others. Their greed has bankrupted this authority and they get what they deserve with the inevitable redundancies that will follow. The taxpayers of Birmingham do not deserve to have their council tax hiked. The 21% council tax hike recently announced and the dimming of the street lights may mean that those in the council house have to start “lighting little candles of their own.”
“Do not trust a hope, it has forsaken these lands.”
Incidentally, it seems a necromancer is waiting in the wings to deliver a new sleepless malice, a witch king of fangmar forged in the fires of Mount Doom.
After doing their job for them and retrieving multiple carcases from one lake, to “ease the load” of the hard pressed ranger service 😆 as well as life *ringsthat the agency guy employed there asked me to do, I was under the impression that this authority could manage the simple task of arranging delivery of these dead birds to the APHA for examination- to at least determine they had not died from the much publicised “avian flu”.
*not just one ring, but many rings. They are precious, my love. 😆
I put in an FOI request to the APHA , as I had previously with that site, as well as others asking for the following.
“Could you please confirm if you have carried put any post mortems on wildfowl from Brookvale Park Birmingham , West Midlands- approximate nat grid reference SP091911 and supply me with the preliminary, supplementary and final reports concerning recent bird deaths . We have retrieved several birds from this site in the last two months, and allegedly Birmingham City Council forwarded some of them to you for examination. Most were found to be riddled with maggots, the site having fluctuating water levels, and tree debris littering the lake. It is noted that none appear to have tested positive for avian flu according to your publication list.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk… Can you CONFIRM that these birds died from avian botulism, and was this a “presumptive diagnosis” without carrying out a test for this summer related illness? I believe these may have been submitted to the Shrewsbury laboratory since May.”
I had been watching the weekly APHA wild bird surveillance list of positive cases, noting the lack of new wildfowl positives not only in this area, but around the country. None had been confirmed in the Birmingham area after we had picked up the birds, thus suggesting that they had died from something else- like the botulism that we suspected which was based on previous findings and experiences where the conditions were the same for example.
The only bird from the City council area on the list was a peregrine falcon from January 2023.
N. BNO WILDFOWL HAD TESTED POSITIVE ON THE APHA LIST FOR MANY MONTHS TO OVER A YEAR BY THIS POINT, AND THIS IS A FACT THAT IS OF HIGH IMPORTANCE TO THIS UPDATE.
They bizarrely claimed that this was the information which belonged to The Shitty council
“APHA can neither confirm nor deny it holds the information that you have requested.”
I obviously challenged this crap given that they had never refused previous similar requests, including for the same site and should not do so in this case. I also smelt a rat in wondering if Birmingham had even bothered to send off the dead birds, but was told by a resident who had offered to contact the council that a named ranger from the council, Danny Squire HAD picked them up from where we left them. A mystery and riddle in the dark if you will.
On this point I also as I have previously written and voiced, my concerns about the way in which the APHA hierarchy, those at director level are calling the shots on this being a “wild bird” issue, and their agenda in painting the picture that way without scrutiny.
“It is further noted that you routinely publish specific avian flu data and yet omit any other data concerning bird deaths for context, so that members of the public can gauge the facts about this specific illness, which I believe is being grossly exaggerated by the APHA. Clearly, you are denying that the birds from this park and city DID NOT die from avian flu as you have not published positive tests on your wild bird AI surveillance reports in the public domain. I further note that individuals within the hierarchy of the APHA are connected to academic institutions which are receiving money from the public purse for “vaccine research” into this specific illness, and have furthermore appeared in many publications concerning links to human health, again overblown. A public interest test needs to be applied in this case, as it appears that information for all deaths and causes is being omitted by the APHA in favour of publishing just AI deaths without context. For this reason and the refusal to supply relevant data sets for anything else, one may question the professional integrity of those in the APHA who are connected with research into a specific field they are looking to gain from.”
The APHA carried out an internal review which did provide clarity that they had used the wrong exemption, but crucially stated “APHA can confirm it has not carried out any postmortems on wildfowl from Brookvale Park Birmingham, West Midlands.”
This therefore meant that Birmingham City Council had questions to answer as to what they had done with the birds that we had spent a whole afternoon, and indeed, several days clearing this lake of dead birds to attempt to stop the suspected botulism outbreak.
Response “Could you please confirm the species and numbers of birds forwarded for post mortem from Brookvale Park Birmingham , West Midlands approximate nat grid reference SP091911 and supply me with the preliminary, supplementary and final reports concerning recent bird deaths from the APHA- i.e. all those from May 2023.”
None of the birds recovered from Brookvale Park were fit for post-mortem (birds have to be fresh collected/free from putrefaction).
This is a complete pack of lies. The birds shown above, swans were freshly dead. The APHA receive submissions of skin and bone and sometimes unidentifiable species due to decomposition. The officers of this council therefore at the first stage lie about not submitting birds to the APHA. The APHA are those who are able to comment on autolysis, not Birmingham City Council, FFS!
“We have retrieved several birds from this site in the last three months, and allegedly Birmingham City Council forwarded some of them to the APHA for investigation.”
The bird carcases that were deposited into the front garden of a Council Tenant were not fit for testing as they were in an advanced state of putrefaction/liquefaction. As stated for tests to be carried out birds have to be fresh collected/free from putrefaction.
Another total lie. The fact that they as a council had failed to “fresh collect” the birds, some of which had obviously been there for weeks appears to have escaped their attention.
“Most were found to be riddled with maggots, the site having fluctuating water levels, and tree debris littering the lake. Previous confirmed botulism episodes at this lake and clinical observations of birds support the likely cause of botulism again- fuelled by the continued conditions at this site. It is noted that no birds in the BCC area appear to have tested positive for avian flu according to the APHA publication list, up to week 40 (2nd-8th October 2023).”
This is not true. A Peregrine Falcon tested positive for Avian Influenza in week four of 2023 as stated below.
In this regard I had made an error in the wording of the question, which I had asked as another question below. It is the case that no wildfowl had tested positive in 2023 for avian flu. The observations about birds on the site at Brookvale are 100% true, and were botulism symptoms. See video below.
It is also worth noting that many of the ill birds we took off this lake and treated for botulism fully recovered after being given treatment for botulism. They would not have done so if they had been ill with avian flu. This was the same as had happened previously, when liar park manager John Porter, (now ex of the council) claimed that “there is nothing meaningful to be done.”
“It is noted that none appear to have tested positive for avian flu according to the APHA publication list , with only one bird, a peregrine falcon in week 4 coming from Birmingham. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/652543deaea2d0000d219a d6/ai-findings-2023-wk40.csv/preview”
Birds were submitted for testing from Witton Lakes Grid Ref SP 088 923, 1 Swan (Cygnet) 1 Coot, 1 Tufted Duck and 4 Mallard Ducks from Witton Lakes were collected and frozen for submission to APHA along with an adult male Swan from Norman Chamberlain Pool, Grid Ref SP 156 883, APHA references WSF-A9E6_FHH3-2EC4/WSF-X4K3-PYDJ-RE84. After 4 days APHA had not arranged collection, advice received from the APHA/Defra call handlers on the week commencing 10 July 2023 that as Avian Influenza had been previously recorded in the locality that any bird deaths that did not have other obvious reasons (for example, dog attack) should be treated as Avian Influenza. Avian Influenza has been previously recorded at Brookvale Park/Witton Lakes in 2022.
Bird flu marshals an army from the North. Birmingham is weak. The City council’s ranger forces need to move.
This statement is a lie and the crux of the whole avian flu hoax being perpetuated. I queried this claim with the APHA and will look at their denial of this further below. The idea that ALL deaths unless something obvious is apparent should be treated as this one single cause without any scientific evidence is utter bullshit. How would they know the cause was “obvious” when birds at Brookvale had been dead for weeks and were rotting without any attempt to retrieve them for evidence?
It is like saying that because someone once died of AIDS in West Bromwich, that ALL subsequent deaths should be treated as AIDS deaths. NO BIRD DEATHS WERE PROVEN AVIAN FLU CASES IN MANY MONTHS AT THIS SITE OR IN BIRMINGHAM. THE SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE CONNECTING BLACK COUNTRY BOROUGHS.
Also why should one single bird of prey receive more attention than many dead wildfowl who could also have been the victim of wildlife crime? This is just another example of the hypocrisy that top table “conservation” organisations have for putting this one species ahead of others.
“Can you CONFIRM therefore that these birds at Brookvale park died from avian botulism, and was this a “presumptive diagnosis” without carrying out a test for this summer related illness?
Please read previous answer, in addition a Cygnet at Witton Lakes less than 0.9km away from Brookvale Park was euthanised by the RSPCA within this time frame displaying symptoms of Avian Influenza.
This is another major problem. The RSPCA have behaved disgracefully at times with “avian flu”, and a prime example of needle happy stress being used to solve a problem caused by the shite guidance that DEFRA and those promoting the bird flu hoax have given them. The adherence to authority and complicity with it is quite shocking, but not surprising given the multitude of 20th Century studies to obedience, conformity and authority. The symptoms of avian flu have been made so general by the APHA hierarchy as to include everything, as I have stated before.
These are not specific to avian flu, contradict each other, and are also seen in botulism, lead poisoning and many other avian illnesses/foul play caused by man. Many of these would be treated or looked for prior to this rubbish guidance being circulated, would not result in an instant death sentence after “rescue” and should be again.
I am aware that the RSPCA have killed birds that were not confirmed ill with bird flu, but were killed because they could not outrun their boat, as well as one swan in Smethwick that was killed that had been mating and was knackered, and yet this was taken as “avian flu” symptoms like those above no doubt without ANY evidence being confirmed or ANY previous incidents for months before that.
The attempt here by the council to mention this is a desperate attempt to look credible, when in fact it demonstrates the opposite of the lie.
“I believe these may have been submitted to the Shrewsbury laboratory since May. Any names appearing on the reports of officers may be redacted if you wish, but not the cause of death, as there is a strong public interest to establish the real cause of death of these birds, rather than false information and narratives about “avian flu” ,which clearly these birds DID NOT have. The public should not be misled’.”
As Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza HPAI (H5N1) is a risk to human health this dictates our response.
The bullshit signs. Perhaps it’s time to “put aside the ranger” and grow a fucking backbone?
On receiving this, I immediately got back to the APHA to clarify their position, as well as starting a complaint about this via the BCC complaints procedure. Of the latter, they originally attempted to limit the complaint I had made over the phone, so corrected this with a full breakdown of my concerns.
The reply from BCC came from an individual who I have encountered before and who many have commented bares an uncanny resemblance to the fat hobbit, except without any valour, bravery or wisdom of Samwise Gamgee.
It is not for the first time that false accusations have been made against me by officers of this council concerning birds, and yet incredibly here we are again over 20 years later with the same guy behind them. The response also contained many provable lies and untruths. Here are the main comments and my rebuttal.
“No permission had been given to you to go on to Brookvale Pool and retrieve life rings or dead birds. Incidentally you then decided to leave the bird carcases in the front garden of a council tenant who is not an employee of Birmingham’s Parks and as such the front garden constitutes a private residency. By doing so you caused distress to the resident. I would politely ask that you refrain from either going on to the water at Brookvale or depositing dead birds in the garden of a council tenant.”
This statement is a lie. The resident has confirmed that she was not caused distress, offered to have them on her lawn as she was in touch with the guy who worked on the site, unlike the office based creature responding to this complaint and I was asked if I could retrieve the life rings by the man working on this park. Foxes could have dragged dead bird parts around the whole site and off site when left as they were for over a week, inside her garden or out of it, thus spreading disease further afield anyway. We also put the blessed life rings in the garden, thus keeping them secret, and keeping them safe where they could be collected by the site operator, which is more than his lazy fucking rangers had done in months by the number that were counted! I think the fat one wants the rings for himself. 😮
The same statement is made multiple times to questions and observations that I made about Birmingham City Council’s lack of action, and removal of dead birds, so the copy and paste must have been used.
“After seeking advice from APHA, the advice given was with Avian Influenza being prevalent across the UK during the Spring/Summer of 2023 if the pool has already tested positive for Avian Influenza or was within a 10km cordon sanitaire of a pool that had tested positive then subsequent bird deaths should be treated as Avian Influenza.
In previous years where the attributable cause of death has been Avian Botulism then we have treated bird deaths as such.”
I will return to this except to say that a •“cordon sanitaire” refers to a restricted area where “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” How the fuck that relates to wild free flying birds that could travel miles and hop between pools over county and local authority borderlines is lost to my comprehension FFS!
•NOUN
a guarded line preventing anyone from leaving an area infected by a disease and thus spreading it:
Birmingham City council utterly failed to enact the guidance of the APHA regards botulism in Brookvale and at many other parks in its ownership, over many years.
None of these measures were taken by BCC prior to any avian flu, or during the incidents of botulism, and now of course the dead birds being left in situ just increase the deaths being caused by the real cause of death which is botulism.
By way of example, members of the public raised concerns in the press at this time totally independent of anything we observed. The excuses at this time did not involve avian flu, but the outcome was the same.
“As an employer we have a statutory duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Where Staff are dealing with birds that have confirmed Avian Influenza or suspected Avian Influenza then staff must use the appropriate PPE when collecting dead birds, this includes FFP3 filtered respiratory protection, eye protection, disposable overalls and gloves, and where staff have handled confirmed cases of birds with Avian Influenza UKHSA undertake health monitoring and proscribe a course of Chemoprophylaxis for staff affected.”
The response makes much of the non existent human health issues of this farce, much lauded by those seeking to benefit from vaccine research and doomsday viruses. For lazy hobbits at BCC it is an excuse to do nothing whilst hiding behind “elf and safety”. They claim that if there is no human health risk there is no need to remove the birds, but also use the human health risk as a reason for not removing the birds- and thus in their totally puddled world creating an environmental situation where more will die from the failure to do anything. I would add that I have pulled dead birds from the lakes in Birmingham with my bare hands, and oh, what a surprise, no effects.
“Shall I describe it to you?” Elf and safety gone mad!
The trees on the island at this park, a top source of the dead carcases, are dead and collapsed in the water, thus adding to the contamination with the fluctuating water levels. No comment from The council on this matter.
“Nobody cares for the trees, (in Birmingham) anymore”
As we saw at the pools in Smethwick, when ill or contaminated birds flew to other nearby pools, they started the issues there and continued the life/death cycle of maggots being ingested by new hosts. The deaths at other nearby lakes, particularly Witton, I will look at further on in this post.
They also claimed that a ward councillor whom has been quite helpful thus far, was briefed about the issue, though she confirmed to me that officers of the council had done no such thing. It later transpired, but without apology of confirming their original lie that she hadnow been briefed , but with what bullshit I wonder?
The council also appear unable to understand that the syphon in this park, over 130 years old does not work! It registers being below water level when bottles or debris gets stuck in the longest pipe, thus activating the system but not dropping it when clogged and therefore continuing to empty water well below the level it should. It does not cut off therefore as BCC think it does when it falls back below the water level- it keeps on emptying the pool, and therefore decreasing the levels to dangerous environmental levels where the birds can then ingest submerged contaminated materials. APHA guidance, of which this council have been shown countless times confirms fluctuating water levels to be a major cause of botulism outbreaks.
The outlet from the pool, the water level drop line clear. Does this look like it cut off when it fell below water, or just kept on going for many inches more as I have stated?
APHA response
BCC have clearly cherry picked parts of this to again look plausible, but Avian flu should not take precedence where there is no evidence it exists. That evidence in itself is being denied tested by the stance of BCC , and the spread of the disease or lack of it being confirmed or proven extinct.
Mitigation strategy – AI in wild birds The Mitigation Strategy first published in August 2022 was updated in March 2023 and provides guidance to conservation charities and land managers including local authorities on how to prepare and respond to suspected and confirmed findings of avian influenza in wild birds.
I would note here that “suspected” and “confirmed” are two entirely different entities. The council cannot confirm, because they have failed to submit any evidence of avian flu for testing and nor do they possess any in wildfowl in their managed area for over two years. The “suspicion” is therefore baseless on lack of recent cases.
What the council have failed to quote from the document they pluck is the below from page 38, paragraph 25.5
The removal is “recommended when dead wild birds are found: • at residential premises, in particular when in areas which may be accessed by children or pets. • in urban or suburban areas or rural access routes, for example on footpaths, with frequent human footfall. • in areas where the likelihood of significant exposure of carcasses to other wild birds (or other susceptible species) for example areas where carcasses can be easily scavenged, or carcasses are in key feeding, breeding and roosting areas. This assessment will be site specific and should be made on the basis of an assessment of the location and species of bird present.”
We therefore have here a situation where the council are content to leave birds dead in a roosting area, a feeding area and breeding area, on the island and in the water, where carcases will be scavenged and spread to other wild birds.
I have since contacted the APHA THAT THEY MAKE CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIS COUNCIL IN WRITING, WHICH PRODUCES EVIDENCE, TELLING THEM NOT TO TREAT ALL DEATHS AS AVIAN FLU, TO SUBMIT CARCASSES FOR EXAMINATION, AND TREAT SUBSEQUENT DEATHS AT BROOKVALE PARK, AS PREVIOUSLY WITNESSED AS SUSPECTED BOTULISM.
On 18th January I noted two dead swans at Witton Lakes, just 400 metres from Brookvale as the crow flies. Birds flit between the two on a regular basis. The water from Witton flows into Brookvale via a badly managed brook, also surprise surprise, blocked by debris. At this point, the lakes were still frozen, but the birds reachable. I am aware that they had been there for at least 3-4 days but were still fully in tact.
By now, and having rang the utterly useless Defra helpline which attempts to not take any details that you wish to report, I contacted the APHA at Shrewsbury direct and a colleague of mine drove the two birds over there for post mortem. Obviously, BCC would have just left them there as they have throughout with their non existent bird flu bullshit.
Subsequently, BOTH BIRD WERE CONFIRMED TO HAVE TESTED NEGATIVE FOR AVIAN FLU.
I TOLD YOU SO!!!!
This therefore confirms not “speculation or conjecture on my part” as fat hobbit puts it, but a true result, and not one defined to fit my hypothesis, unlike HIS.
This negative result has been relayed to them, and yet it appears they are still content to leave dead birds in the water, and thus exacerbate by useless management the more plausible botulism hypothesis.
I am fully aware that the APHA/DEFRA do not test for botulism, and this is again a failing on their part and one which fits into the picture of false AI speculation vs true cause of death confirmed. There is no doubt that sewage spillages caused by scum water operators like Severn Trent are increasing, and causing more deaths, which is an inconvenient truth the regulators and their bent MP mates do not want to address. I find it astounding, that for all the millions spent by bent academic institutions, robbing and stealing from the public purse for vaccine research, that no botulism test is available in the UK from supposed top notch world leading scientists. LET US HAVE A REAL DEBATE ON HOW AVIAN FLU IS BEING EXAGERRATED AND MISDIAGNOSED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, AND DELIBERATELY POLICY LED THAT WAY BY CERTAIN CIVIL SERVANTS TO LINE THEIR OWN FUCKING POCKETS.
We shall see what comes of the Local Government and Social Care ombudsman complaint I have now made against Birmingham City Council. I am used to this now, taking on liars and proving shit authorities wrong, and obnoxious bed wetting fucking wankers who think they know better to cover their own failed credentials.
I have been advised by the APHA to report wild bird deaths at the following link, and would urge anyone else in the BCC area to not bother contacting this useless council.
So once again I set forth on a quest to expose local authority lies and incompetence. By rights , I should not have to do this, but……
“It’s like in the great stories, The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.”
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Here’s a goose calendar to download or print off as you wish. These pictures are of birds seen around and about , very often single birds that are part of a Canada goose flock or join them for safety. The Canada’s don’t seem to mind, and even mate with some of them from a different species.
Green space in Sandwell has been under threat for years. The population density of people remains the highest in all the local Black country boroughs, and well above the national average- it isn’t fair and the regions politicians of all mainstream parties appear to like it that way.
We have seen the destruction of Londonderry playing fields to make way for the bankrupt Birmingham Commonwealth Games, the threat of Lion Farm fields hanging in the balance for years, and more recent uprooting of wildlife from the Tipton Coneygree site, left abandoned in ruinous condition by a bunch of con-artists. All of these supported wildlife habitat and yet the demise will see it lost forever.
I’m not a fan of golf courses as they tend to be elitist and anti-wildlife by definition, but the Brandhall Golf course closure and subsequent building of houses on that site is another net loss of green space. This was opposed by a large number of people, but money talks with SMBC.
Added to these sites, the destructive Midlands Metro has destroyed a re-wilded corridor between Dudley and Wednesbury all thanks to the Midlands Riddler chump- Andy chu chu four points man Street and his undemocratically unmandated “West Midlands Combined Authority”.
His sinking it in the brown first agenda is an even bigger threat to local wildlife, though not his greenbelt mates in rural Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire who get to land bank their shit agricultural land for another day. He seems to think it acceptable to fund clean up of contaminated private land that the polluter never paid for, and allowing conman scum to profit from the sale of such. Look into land banking Mr not so Quality Street and you will find a pattern of tax evasion in the Channel islands and beyond.
Labour controlled SMBC as we know have a terrible wildlife legacy. 😥
A recent Sandwell council tender invited parties into
“Monitoring and Closure of Badger Setts at Oldbury and Tipton Cemetery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
There are currently several badger setts at both Oldbury Cemetery and Tipton Cemetery. Bereavement Services are looking to close all badger setts at Oldbury Cemetery and to undertake a period of monitoring of the badger setts at Tipton Cemetery. Outline of work is as follows; –
1) Apply for the relevant licences from Natural England for both Oldbury Cemetery and Tipton Cemetery.
2) To monitor and install the relevant fencing, badger gates and any other equipment required in order to close the sett(s) at Oldbury Cemetery
3) To monitor the current badger setts at Tipton Cemetery with a view to identify ‘high active’ areas within the cemetery, to undertake a soft fill of these setts, with a view to potential closure.”
So oppose culls politically but uproot badgers from their homes in Sandwell privately appears to be council policy.
Now to the point of this post now the backstory has been explained.
A current consultation document the so called “The Sandwell Plan”, is even more brazen about the sale and destruction of green space and wildlife habitat. This plan for housing and land use allocations up to 2041 is a mandate for developer land banking and the destruction of remaining wildlife habitat.
Their big idea and the scam is to use so called “biodiversity credits” for uprooting and evicting wildlife from one area so long as developer scum plant some token trees somewhere else.
The wildlife protection garbage policy in the plan is easily defeated by using this scam and it is clear to see that definitions of “harm” , “benefits”, “minimised” and “mitigation” are not identified. It is a plan for allowing development therefore whatever designation has previously been granted, so long as the scum can tick some useless boxes.
“Where, exceptionally, the strategic benefits of a development clearly outweigh the importance of a local nature conservation site (Sites of Local Importance for Nature Conservation), species, habitat or geological feature, damage must be minimised. Any remaining impacts, including any reduction in area, must be fully mitigated. A mitigation strategy must accompany relevant planning applications. Compensation will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances.”
Even more alarming is that another policy, SNE2 cites “The Local Nature Recovery Network Strategy”, and “The Black Country Local Nature Recovery Network Opportunity Map.” This is code for another meaningless tick box exercise where the planners pretend they care about protecting what is already there.
The idea that nature can be somehow “measured” by calculation is ludicrous, but perhaps a part of the current Government’s interest in the environment and how it can be exploited for developer gain.
Someone is Sandwell council appears to have put figures into their twat computer let’s call it and come up with a collection of shit sites that they claim can be used as fall back to allow the rape of others- particularly it seems in the Tipton/Tividale area.
Whoever came up with this crap- please fuck off and die now! All of these areas already exist- nothing is being created so let’s just drop the mass tree planting bullshit and concentrate on areas that have good potential like Rattlechain area and the canal network connected to Sheepwash Nature Reserve, which is threatened by development in this shit plan.
“Menzies open space” does not exist and appears to be a newly created area that the former demolished school, now in private ownership did not want. Apart from the ugly fencing which has closed off much of the once open area, this site includes the heavily polluted Millpool- contaminated by the so called “clean up” of a brownfield site that housed the WH Quays. This operator made bitumen products and the site was heavily polluted with said material in the soils. The conman outfit Mar City Developments came along- a company run by two Irish nationals- The Ryans who appear to make a very nasty habit of going into liquidation only to re-emerge as a new phoenix entity with basically the same initials of Margaret Anne Ryan. The millpool via The Groveland Brook took the impact of the “remediation” environmental fraud and was “marred” by the bituminous crap that got flushed out from that process, and I will be looking at that story in the new year, as I have quite a bit to say on that. Safe to say that SMBC and the EA cared nothing for the evidence that was put to them at the time, the contaminated birds that had to be rescued, and let the con-artists do what they liked on site to create housing. So much for environmental protection policy there!
The cracker has always been basically a pikey horse parking area. Tividale park a drug dealing chicken shop Mecca. Where was the strategy in choice of these sites?! Is this the extent of Sandwell Council’s ambition for wildlife?
Please object to the ideas in This plan. You have just one week until December 18th to register your objections, and the best way to do this is to create an account at the link below and comment on the speech bubble oportunites. Unfortunately however it appears that whatever the scale of public opposition, SMBC will ignore you and create habitat for developers to soil with their shovels. Expect a hard hat wearing wanker on your doorsteps for a photo opportunity where once wildlife thrived. 😥
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