The Environment Agency has been telling the government how to lie about the quality of bathing water, investigations have revealed.
Here’s Channel 4 News to explain:
According to Channel 4 News,
We’ve seen documents which show that almost twice as many English bathing waters would fail pollution tests – if the regulator [the Environment Agency] wasn’t legally allowed to disregard some of the worst results.
Papers and emails show Government officials were also worried about negative press and wanted pollution incidents to be “better presented”. But the Environment Agency warned some options they gave could look like ‘greenwashing’.
The Government and the agency insist it’s perfectly above board and follows scientific best practice, but campaigners want the system to change, insisting public safety should come first.
Former musician, now clean water campaigner Feargal Sharkey has obtained a copy of the Environment Agency’s advice to the government, explaining how to – basically – lie to us about the amount of pollution in our waters:
And here's part 2 of that briefing note where the EA are explaining to the SoS how they can deflect the public's attention by changing the wording; to 'better present' the bathing reports
IE change "Pollution Risk" to "Water Quality Forecasts", etc, etc.https://t.co/LOGR8dmsbQ
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) February 5, 2024
In the TV report, an interviewee suggests that protection of the environment should be what the Environment Agency does, and not “spinning for the government”.
This Writer would certainly agree.
But it’s just another example of the corruption sweeping the UK.
It seems clear that the Environment Agency is not fit for purpose; when an organisation that is supposed to penalise water companies that break pollution rules is instead providing advice on how to hide such breaches, it does not deserve to continue.
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