You might find it interesting that the latest GoogleMaps satellite images for the east side of Lough Neagh now have visible algae bloom, the extent and distribution is mind-blowing! From a visual point of view it nearly looks "pretty", if you ignore the real impact it has had.
No ones talking about the 12,000 septic tanks discharging into the Lough. Run off from farm land too. The water service actually offer a free septic tank drainage once a year to home owners and people take the lazy way out and just let it discharge into the Lough.
That video bought me to your channel, it was just the right mix to drop into my feed, and I have subscribed and watched a bunch of your videos now. I stayed for the fun mix of cinematography, story teliing and outdoors content.
You deserve all the views for that video. You did a hell of a job on it. Really good work-well researched, well written and well filmed. I know I recommended it to a few people myself so I imagine many others of your viewers did the same.
Thanks for the update. I'm really pleased for you that the first video was so successful. Is anyone doing any research about the pollution levels? This would be an ideal area for the University to do long-term studies. It would be great to have some scientific evidence to back up what you're saying, especially when dealing with politicians. I think you're right to be cautious with them, as they always have their own agenda.
Great video Steve, thanks for the update. Would be very helpful for a lot of folk locally to hear where that effluent is being pumped directly into the sea owing to the amount of swimmers and dog walkers who use Belfast lough. Think I might know though... We came across "cockle pickers" during covid collecting what I can only describe as toxic mussels and winkles along the shore and passed everything to the local council as there are laws in force but the amount of hoops and info we had to gather was just stupid. It appears they gather their wares and sell them locally... Happy trails Stephen!!
theres currently unpassed legislation sitting on the minister for agricultures desk reguarding regulation of shellfish, the millions in unpaid tax is a joke, thou at 30 quid an hour roughly for a stone of winkles (and all your benefits) you see why our eastern european friends are flat out at it, dont worry thou minister muir is on it 👍👍
Thanks for the update on the algae. So is the plan for the follow up video to just be about the lake or to also interview a politicians about what they are doing about the problem?
I'll decide closer to the time but yes it'll be about what is happening politically as well as practically. And politicians will only feature if I think it's not just a PR opportunity for them.
@@runwithstevetoday I think it would be interesting, since the algae will most likely be bad next year to interview at an affected site as a counterpoint. If they say well we have tackled one part of the problem, it will be hard to judge if the overall level is high. I wonder if they will be able to point to something tangible that has changed. What you may see as a PR opportunity, I would probably see as getting them on the record. You used quotes from the newspapers from the 1950's. At the very least their soundbite would be a marker for the future.
Great, now you’ve sucked me into another channel… what’s better than one Stephen channel? Two Steven channels! Btw- I’m sitting on my tush eating toast and eggs watching you exercise 😉 Luv this channel and form of content as well good sir!
Very autumnal. I now want to see an otter with an eye patch. But yes, waiting to see if the changes have resulted in an improvement is an excellent plan. Finally, folk really shouldn’t be putting any of that stuff you listed into sinks or toilets.
Oh wow this whole thing not just Algea but as well the other lake is a massive rabbit hole to go to 🙈 I’m really curious about these both topics as it’s just fascinating that something like this is happening in a the age we live in and just shows how little we take care of our environment…this sounds as the top of the iceberg and if they let to get it to this place what it’s gonna be in few years or a decade? I don’t understand how this is even possible.
Agriculture is slow to change its ways. Would take a seismic shift to stop the lough dying. I wonder if all the pollan are gone. I think the Neagh char were unique too
Great video. First time coming across your stuff. The water here is so bad. Especially from a swimmer, cold dipper perspective. Our lakes are ruined with pollution and algae and the sea is overrun with dangerous jellyfish. We have nowhere to go 😂😂😂
If you're doing one about the headphones, could you maybe expand it to include other running kit, maybe have a little series on starting out running from sofa to the Mourne wall?
Stephen, what ever happened to public information adverts on UTV tell us not to do this , not to do that: “Catch your germs in your handkerchief,” you are probably too young. “Keep Britain Tidy.” Why is the government not advertising messages like “Don’t put your kitchen wipes down the loo.”
Just about every single public toilet or toilet in hotels, restaurants, bars etc have signs warning not to flush wet wipes. There have been documentaries and news reports about fat bergs caused by them blocking the sewers. It seems that people will flush them anyway, simply because it's easy and once out of sight, out of mind.
I'm really interested in the actual film-making process behind that algae video. You mentioned you had a script, I was impressed with how you cited so many facts and statistics without *sounding* like it was coming off a script. I'm guessing it's just years of practice, but did you have to refer to your phone a lot, or did you use a teleprompter etc?
Yeah for something this complicated it had to be totally scripted. Although in the delivery of the script I would sometimes slightly change things. Script was on my phone. I never read it while actually talking. Sometimes I would be simply reading a sentence or two and just immediately delivering them to camera. Im actually really bad at remembering the script, even when I’ve wrote it. I’ll forget points or the order of things. So there’s probably over an hour of bad takes. For other sections where it’s one long shot, I just had to go over it again and again on site before recording to try and learn it and then trying to get it all in one take. Those were hard but essential for flow and to avoid lots of choppy edits. I’m still very pleased I managed to get the gate jump scene on the second take, but I spent a lot of time walking around that field going over the script. It’s not good enough to memorise it to the point where you can just repeat it. It needs to be where it’s then sounding natural as well. It’s kinda a performance but it’s also just try to get comfortable with the script so it comes across as if you were saying it to someone who is there with you. It’s a surprisingly exhausting process for what is essentially just talking. Every time you’re trying to say the words as if it’s the first time you’re saying them. Even the angry parts I ended up having to do more than one take. Every 5minutes of script could be up to an hour of trying to record it. Much longer if you count the time getting to the locations Regards teleprompters. Used in past, they are a huge hassle to setup and for something like this they would have made things even slower
@runwithstevetoday Wow. Thank you for such a detailed answer, I hugely appreciate that! I'm someone who's just starting the process of making my own science-documentary style videos and your algae video was a huge inspiration. So it's a relief to know that even seasoned film makers take a long time to film! Thought it was just me being a total amateur because I can't remember scripts 🤣
Lakes is an English word lough is an Irish word In Scotland Lake would be unacceptable other than lake of Menteith which is a corruption of Ghaidhlig and one other canny remember it is.just a wee moan maybe lough should be used in future for all your country. Other wise another super wee video 😅
I remember watching a True North documentary and it followed a family from Belfast and part of their religion is to wash any new pots, pans, plates and cutlery in the sea before 1st use. So they loaded up the car and headed to Carrickfergus to a place called Fisherman’s quay not far from a sewage treatment facility. Allegedly waste gets released out into Belfast lough from here and also from a pipe at this quay which runs to an old mill which I’ve been told has been converted to lots of apartments many years ago. I really hope these people wash their items again once they return home. Then around May time a rig was deployed to Belfast lough to check the outfalls and it completed surveys at Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Whitehouse and Belfast. Was this for sewage? The government really need to step up and sort these problems plus people need to stop flushing everything and anything down the toilet. I can see Lough Neagh only going one way and that will be the lake will go into public ownership then everyone will be charged to enter it to use it for boats, jetski’s swimming etc to recover the money they used to purchase it from Earl of Shaftesbury. Another charge or rates increase will be slapped on the people for the clean up process and then come along and slap more charges on for the drinking water that comes from it just to stick the knife in a bit more on the people. I hope I’m totally wrong
Rich landowners and faceless companies to blame, will stop at nothing to make a buck. I did read somewhere about the Earl of Shaftesbury talking of "selling" the Lough. But, the general public are not blameless, thoughtless disposal of things down the bog, in vast quantities. But on a funnier note, I recall a scenario whereby a lady from my village inadvertently flushed her falsers doon the bog one Saturday night, after a particularly heavy drinking session, and the local sewerage worker being roused to hunt the sewage plant for them, as she was off to Benidorm the next day! I reckon you may well have "ruffled a few feathers" with the Lough Neagh vid. Good on ye, looking forward to the follow up
is that the same deals alliance and sf ministers all signed off on? the waste slurry water from the new bio mass boilers is an even bigger problem coming and this is supposedly part of the minister for agricultures solutions to problems
The 50 Year Cover Up That POISONED The Largest Lake In Ireland: ua-cam.com/video/HXT1yMD2kZA/v-deo.htmlsi=Fq1T8k5CUAg4t9Ba
I have drone videos from the Lough that might be helpful to you there as bad as it gets
You might find it interesting that the latest GoogleMaps satellite images for the east side of Lough Neagh now have visible algae bloom, the extent and distribution is mind-blowing!
From a visual point of view it nearly looks "pretty", if you ignore the real impact it has had.
I'm only a minute into viewing, but I want you to know I really appreciated that leaf-kicking ASMR-esque scene.
No ones talking about the 12,000 septic tanks discharging into the Lough. Run off from farm land too. The water service actually offer a free septic tank drainage once a year to home owners and people take the lazy way out and just let it discharge into the Lough.
That video bought me to your channel, it was just the right mix to drop into my feed, and I have subscribed and watched a bunch of your videos now. I stayed for the fun mix of cinematography, story teliing and outdoors content.
You deserve all the views for that video. You did a hell of a job on it. Really good work-well researched, well written and well filmed.
I know I recommended it to a few people myself so I imagine many others of your viewers did the same.
Glad you are doing up a follow up video and it makes a lot of sense to wait. This will put some pressure on to fix the issue!
Shouldn't be allowed to have a private owner of the Lake in the first place
he didnt install the CSOs, he didnt spread all the slurry
Nothing to do with it.
Sure that's what the British tried to do with the whole island..so yes I agree 👍
Thanks for the update. I'm really pleased for you that the first video was so successful. Is anyone doing any research about the pollution levels? This would be an ideal area for the University to do long-term studies. It would be great to have some scientific evidence to back up what you're saying, especially when dealing with politicians. I think you're right to be cautious with them, as they always have their own agenda.
There's been research on pollution levels happening since the 1950s. My original video was based on a lot of research of results of testing
Whew great run! I'm now exhausted :) Thanks for the update about the poisoned lake.
Thanks for coming along!
Perfectly timed yep in the sweetcorn section
EXCELLENT WORK, Sir…
I live just across from Junction one . Use to go down the lough and the ground all the time with the dog but barely went near it this year..
Thank you for this… love what u are doing ❤
Surprised how much the loch and shore has cleaned up actually. Look forward to the wet wipe conversation. Think the long selfie stick is a bonus too 👍
Great video Steve, thanks for the update. Would be very helpful for a lot of folk locally to hear where that effluent is being pumped directly into the sea owing to the amount of swimmers and dog walkers who use Belfast lough. Think I might know though... We came across "cockle pickers" during covid collecting what I can only describe as toxic mussels and winkles along the shore and passed everything to the local council as there are laws in force but the amount of hoops and info we had to gather was just stupid. It appears they gather their wares and sell them locally... Happy trails Stephen!!
publicly available: www.niwater.com/storm/overflow/
theres currently unpassed legislation sitting on the minister for agricultures desk reguarding regulation of shellfish, the millions in unpaid tax is a joke, thou at 30 quid an hour roughly for a stone of winkles (and all your benefits) you see why our eastern european friends are flat out at it, dont worry thou minister muir is on it 👍👍
Thanks for the update on the algae. So is the plan for the follow up video to just be about the lake or to also interview a politicians about what they are doing about the problem?
I'll decide closer to the time but yes it'll be about what is happening politically as well as practically. And politicians will only feature if I think it's not just a PR opportunity for them.
@@runwithstevetoday I think it would be interesting, since the algae will most likely be bad next year to interview at an affected site as a counterpoint. If they say well we have tackled one part of the problem, it will be hard to judge if the overall level is high. I wonder if they will be able to point to something tangible that has changed. What you may see as a PR opportunity, I would probably see as getting them on the record. You used quotes from the newspapers from the 1950's. At the very least their soundbite would be a marker for the future.
Great quality video and sound 👌🏼
Great, now you’ve sucked me into another channel… what’s better than one Stephen channel? Two Steven channels!
Btw- I’m sitting on my tush eating toast and eggs watching you exercise 😉
Luv this channel and form of content as well good sir!
Beautiful scenery 😍
Very autumnal. I now want to see an otter with an eye patch. But yes, waiting to see if the changes have resulted in an improvement is an excellent plan. Finally, folk really shouldn’t be putting any of that stuff you listed into sinks or toilets.
🤣 pirate otter
Oh wow this whole thing not just Algea but as well the other lake is a massive rabbit hole to go to 🙈 I’m really curious about these both topics as it’s just fascinating that something like this is happening in a the age we live in and just shows how little we take care of our environment…this sounds as the top of the iceberg and if they let to get it to this place what it’s gonna be in few years or a decade? I don’t understand how this is even possible.
Enjoying your new channel. Have to say, I can tell the difference with the new bitrate of your camera. Lot less background noise when watching in vr.
Thanks Andrew! Wasn’t the best day for testing a camera as very overcast but I’m happy how it’s looking.
Agriculture is slow to change its ways. Would take a seismic shift to stop the lough dying. I wonder if all the pollan are gone. I think the Neagh char were unique too
Great to know your video has had such a far reaching effect. Thank you for making a difference.
Great video. First time coming across your stuff. The water here is so bad. Especially from a swimmer, cold dipper perspective. Our lakes are ruined with pollution and algae and the sea is overrun with dangerous jellyfish. We have nowhere to go 😂😂😂
If you're doing one about the headphones, could you maybe expand it to include other running kit, maybe have a little series on starting out running from sofa to the Mourne wall?
I plan to do kit videos yeah
looking forward to the Belfast lough video . Great to see content you can believe 👍
It is on his full name channel...
Stephen, what ever happened to public information adverts on UTV tell us not to do this , not to do that: “Catch your germs in your handkerchief,” you are probably too young. “Keep Britain Tidy.” Why is the government not advertising messages like “Don’t put your kitchen wipes down the loo.”
Just about every single public toilet or toilet in hotels, restaurants, bars etc have signs warning not to flush wet wipes. There have been documentaries and news reports about fat bergs caused by them blocking the sewers. It seems that people will flush them anyway, simply because it's easy and once out of sight, out of mind.
Can they not introduce more plant life to stop the sun growing the algie
I'm really interested in the actual film-making process behind that algae video. You mentioned you had a script, I was impressed with how you cited so many facts and statistics without *sounding* like it was coming off a script. I'm guessing it's just years of practice, but did you have to refer to your phone a lot, or did you use a teleprompter etc?
Yeah for something this complicated it had to be totally scripted. Although in the delivery of the script I would sometimes slightly change things.
Script was on my phone. I never read it while actually talking. Sometimes I would be simply reading a sentence or two and just immediately delivering them to camera.
Im actually really bad at remembering the script, even when I’ve wrote it. I’ll forget points or the order of things. So there’s probably over an hour of bad takes.
For other sections where it’s one long shot, I just had to go over it again and again on site before recording to try and learn it and then trying to get it all in one take. Those were hard but essential for flow and to avoid lots of choppy edits.
I’m still very pleased I managed to get the gate jump scene on the second take, but I spent a lot of time walking around that field going over the script.
It’s not good enough to memorise it to the point where you can just repeat it. It needs to be where it’s then sounding natural as well. It’s kinda a performance but it’s also just try to get comfortable with the script so it comes across as if you were saying it to someone who is there with you.
It’s a surprisingly exhausting process for what is essentially just talking. Every time you’re trying to say the words as if it’s the first time you’re saying them. Even the angry parts I ended up having to do more than one take.
Every 5minutes of script could be up to an hour of trying to record it. Much longer if you count the time getting to the locations
Regards teleprompters. Used in past, they are a huge hassle to setup and for something like this they would have made things even slower
@runwithstevetoday Wow. Thank you for such a detailed answer, I hugely appreciate that! I'm someone who's just starting the process of making my own science-documentary style videos and your algae video was a huge inspiration. So it's a relief to know that even seasoned film makers take a long time to film! Thought it was just me being a total amateur because I can't remember scripts 🤣
Nah. I probably wouldn’t visit a poisoned lake. Thanks for your upload though 😅
What a amazing way you have to run whith 😊 but look up for the cold whater 😮
Hopefully get some snow runs this winter
What app do you use to find trails to run on? Thanks!
Mostly google maps, I look for patches of trees or trails. Sometimes I’ll use a hiking map app like Hiiker
Delighted to hear your work is paying off - keep er lit
This isn’t a lake,it’s a Lough,big difference!
what's the difference? 😉
Lakes is an English word lough is an Irish word
In Scotland Lake would be unacceptable other than lake of Menteith which is a corruption of Ghaidhlig and one other canny remember it is.just a wee moan maybe lough should be used in future for all your country.
Other wise another super wee video 😅
The pleasure is mine, mate.
I look forward to the follow up.
Sadly, there is sewage in many/all rivers around the UK 😢
I remember watching a True North documentary and it followed a family from Belfast and part of their religion is to wash any new pots, pans, plates and cutlery in the sea before 1st use. So they loaded up the car and headed to Carrickfergus to a place called Fisherman’s quay not far from a sewage treatment facility. Allegedly waste gets released out into Belfast lough from here and also from a pipe at this quay which runs to an old mill which I’ve been told has been converted to lots of apartments many years ago. I really hope these people wash their items again once they return home. Then around May time a rig was deployed to Belfast lough to check the outfalls and it completed surveys at Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Whitehouse and Belfast. Was this for sewage? The government really need to step up and sort these problems plus people need to stop flushing everything and anything down the toilet. I can see Lough Neagh only going one way and that will be the lake will go into public ownership then everyone will be charged to enter it to use it for boats, jetski’s swimming etc to recover the money they used to purchase it from Earl of Shaftesbury. Another charge or rates increase will be slapped on the people for the clean up process and then come along and slap more charges on for the drinking water that comes from it just to stick the knife in a bit more on the people. I hope I’m totally wrong
i started half the bother with the CSO outlets and i am PROUD to have done so, NI water have a CSO outlet map
Rich landowners and faceless companies to blame, will stop at nothing to make a buck. I did read somewhere about the Earl of Shaftesbury talking of "selling" the Lough. But, the general public are not blameless, thoughtless disposal of things down the bog, in vast quantities. But on a funnier note, I recall a scenario whereby a lady from my village inadvertently flushed her falsers doon the bog one Saturday night, after a particularly heavy drinking session, and the local sewerage worker being roused to hunt the sewage plant for them, as she was off to Benidorm the next day! I reckon you may well have "ruffled a few feathers" with the Lough Neagh vid. Good on ye, looking forward to the follow up
😂 very funny image of sewage workers sifting through a lot of mess looking for teeth
Ill trust anyone who wants to kick leaves.😊
The source of all the potable drinking water for Belfast City and surrounding counties..Shame on Stormont.
🇮🇪🇪🇺
Belfast gets a large amount of its drinking water from the mournes, specifically Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs.
A....castle burned down...how did the stone....whatever im American the fuck would i know about a castle
@@alivecoy the interiors and floors and roof beams were all wooden, loads inside to burn
Best spot in the UK I hope it gets cleaned up if we get a decent summer 🇬🇧👍
😂 Walt
Fuck off. This is Ireland 🇮🇪 and part of Europe. England Out ! 🖕
He sure does 🍻😂😂🙏
@@NickMcClelland 😂 Excellent
Oh 3rd channel
Yup
Belfast lough is nothing but a toilet bowl.
so is strangford lough
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"Going for growth" to blame. That DUP administration has alot to answer for including Moy Park and wood pellet scandal
Renewable heating scandal was as much a SF issue as they were pushing the nationalist farmers and businesses out west into it.
is that the same deals alliance and sf ministers all signed off on? the waste slurry water from the new bio mass boilers is an even bigger problem coming and this is supposedly part of the minister for agricultures solutions to problems
video to make you boke from the camera shake....I'm out.
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