Letter

SOLAR Calls for Richmond and Kingston Councils to Take a Stand on Thames Water’s TDRA Scheme

SOLAR has written jointly to the Leaders and key councillors of Richmond and Kingston Councils, urging them to issue a formal joint statement challenging Thames Water’s proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) scheme. In the letter, SOLAR argues that newly identified financial evidence calls into question Thames Water’s long-standing claim that TDRA represents a low-cost, …

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Why Emma Hardy MP’s Latest Announcements Make Stopping TDRA More Urgent Than Ever

In recent weeks, Emma Hardy MP, who is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding, has made two significant national announcements, both of which expose serious contradictions at the heart of Thames Water’s Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) proposal. As SOLAR we have written to her to help set these out as …

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SOLAR URGES New Environment Secretary Stop Thames Water’s ‘Sewage Pump’

SOLAR is intensifying its fight against Thames Water’s proposed Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) scheme by writing to the newly appointed Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP to recognise the “environmentally unsound, socially damaging, and counter to the principles of sustainable water management”. Read our …

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