Reader in Energy Transition Law in UK energy capital Aberdeen. Lecture, write & consult on climate action, energy transition, environment
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined June 2019
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Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
Insulating homes and equipping them with heat pumps better for cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfields, analysis shows
theguardian.com/environment/…
Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
New brief report!
A caution on climate hope by Joe Blakey & Marc Hudson.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.202…
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Ireland could power itself entirely - data centres and all - be completely energy independent, and with low household prices if we had gone all out for wind turbines, especially off shore.
But we'd prefer to remain dependent on expensive imported gas. Again, no vision.
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🙌Win for UK nature🙌
The Bristol River Avon has had its rights formally recognised, in a public signing of the Avon bioregional charter of river rights. 1/3
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GOLD MINE: Inquiry latest as company argues their project will reduce water pollution levels amid plans to use 44,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explosives which could add to nitrogen pollution of groundwater, that already breaches conservation limits #environment #pollution
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BREAKING: Northern Ireland Environment Agency pulls water pollution limits set for Dalradian gold mine, telling public inquiry chiefs they got them wrong. Asks (rather angry) PAC carry on regardless.
“How am I supposed to do that?” says lead commissioner.
#WatchBelow
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The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security.
Their findings?
“Apocalyptic.”
UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Hundreds turn out at Stormont to protest for clean water following a fourth summer of toxic blue-green algae trib.al/iBNjDdC
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While the focal point for many was (understandably) elsewhere in Belfast today, a few hundred demonstrators turned out at Stormont to protest ongoing inaction over Lough Neagh's recovery
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Climate change is making Ireland increasingly vulnerable to summer drought as higher temperatures draw more moisture from soils and vegetation, new research has found
rte.ie/news/2026/0923/159260…
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Construction capacity directed towards data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects.
The irrational allocation of resources in the name of the AI arms race.
thejournal.ie/construction-i…
Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."
That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.
Really, what is the point?
itv.com/news/meridian/2026-0…
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"Clean water shouldn’t be green or even orange..."
MLA Gerry Carroll produced a bottle of green water from Lough Neagh in the Assembly chamber today as a challenge to ministers to address the environmental crisis.
Read more from Stormont tinyurl.com/2wjxv3sj
Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
The discovery of a 400-year-old will left by an English soldier has raised doubt about the true ownership of Lough Neagh, a new book has claimed.
Dr Thomas Muinzer, a legal academic and author from Northern Ireland, unearthed the will of Sir Arthur Chichester (1563-1625) which was previously thought to have been destroyed in a fire.
Read more: tinyurl.com/yp8t7cr3
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His research picked up in today's Irish News:
Essential reading on the long contested Chichester-Shaftesbury territorial claim and ownership entitlements at Lough Neagh.
Great work from @LMuinzer
Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
Essential reading on the long contested Chichester-Shaftesbury territorial claim and ownership entitlements at Lough Neagh.
Great work from @LMuinzer
Thomas L Muinzer retweeted
Weston Big Wood is irreplaceable ancient woodland & a protected SSSI . Yet plans could see around 500 homes built on Tower Farm and Black Rock , enclosing it on both sides . We should be protecting places like this , not building right up to their edges . c.org/8bV8Vy5Gm6
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"1 in 4 chance of ‘catastrophic’ water supply failure for 1m Britons."
Yep, according to the govt's national risk register there is now 25% chance of a massive failure "resulting in the loss of piped drinking water and impact to wastewater services for over one million people”, adding that "residents would likely have to leave the area, and some may require evacuation. It is likely that repair of the infrastructure could take months".
You have been warned.
thetimes.com/uk/environment/…
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As the effects of environmental degradation intensify worldwide, it’s important to remember that climate change is not only an ecological collapse. It’s a human rights crisis.
@UN info: news.un.org/en/story/2025/12…
