Tory government defiant after warning over sewage law breaches
Rivers of S**: unbelievably, the Tory government and regulators Ofwat and the Environment Agency reckon they have not broken the law by failing to regulate this torrent of untreated sewage properly.
Unbelievable but true: the UK’s Tory government is digging its heels in and insisting that it, together with regulators Ofwat and the Environment Agency, has not broken the law over how it regulates sewage releases into the UK’s waterways.
Here‘s the BBC:
The UK’s environment watchdog suspects the government and water regulators have broken the law over how they regulate sewage releases.
It follows continued high levels of sewage releases in England which topped 825 times a day last year.
Campaigners and opposition MPs have called the regulators “complicit” in allowing the pollution.
The government said it did not agree with the Office for Environmental Protection’s “initial interpretations”.
Following complaints to the OEP over sewage in June 2022 it announced it was investigating whether England’s regulators, Ofwat and the Environment Agency, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), were correctly enforcing the law on water companies.
In response to the announcement the government said: “The volume of sewage discharged is completely unacceptable. That is why we are the first government in history to take such comprehensive action to tackle it.”
That is hardly an alibi as it is the first UK government in history that needed to!
As for the substantive complaint – that far too much untreated sewage is stinking up our waterways – the instinctive urge is to come out with a lavatorial expletive like, “No sh**, Sherlock!”
Except…
The River Wye at Redbrook this week. Any comment @DwrCymru? #sewagescandal #sewage #SaveTheWye pic.twitter.com/alanwkP3Nm
— Save The Wye Coalition (@SaveTheWye) September 10, 2023
It seems clear that there is far too much sh** flying around – as much from the mouths of government spokespeople as from privatised water firms’ pipes.
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Fascist tories will eliminate the UK’s environment ‘watchdog’ because how dare they hold fascist tories to account for polluting our rivers and seas!
Fascist tories don’t care about destroying our rivers and ensuring our drinking water is non-drinkable! Fascist tories will destroy everything before the next election and that fake labour party will do precisely nothing because profits and supporting greedy corporate companies are far more important than the health of us peasants!