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JuneSim63

"Nothing demonstrates better the appalling environmental record of our polluting water companies than the fact that they are not even taking care of the highly protected areas that they actually own. It simply cannot be right that the payment of large dividends to shareholders and huge bonuses to bosses is prioritised before protecting SSSIs. This entire culture of polluting for profit must end”
Charles Watson, Chair River Action


theguardian.com/environment/ar

The Guardian · Many protected landscapes owned by English water firms in disrepair, data showsBy Helena Horton

"In a time when there is debate about regulation, the perfect storm approaches. Natural England once again is proving its failure to regulate and hold to account those who damage the environment, and the water companies are once again demonstrating they are institutionally deaf to the plight of the environment and their duty not to damage it.

“We need a complete overhaul of the system, which is dysfunctional and does not work.”
Feargal Sharkey

@junesim63 The thing is they're not "English" water firms, they're owned by foreign companies. All of them are...so why would they care one jot? They're toxic hostile foreign companies operating in England.

@junesim63 Considering the companies are so blasé (for example, shitting over Windermere this whole past week) they all need to go. And they can take whatever’s left of the regulator with them.

@BashStKid @junesim63 Shit has been pouring into Windermere for years, and other lakes.

@Judeet99 @junesim63 I’m keenly aware of that. But right now is probably the best time in 20 years to fundamentally change the system, while the companies are firmly on the back foot.

@BashStKid I'd like to see Feargal Sharkey naming the foreign companies...and keep naming them. I think he'd get a huge surge of public support for that...yes I realise it's perhaps pandering to the not so nice side of many people, but the stakes are very high indeed. Water borne diseases are a real and present risk. Imagine outbreaks in London for example...