When environment minister Steve Reed revealed plans to lock up water executives if they do not co-operate on sewage spill investigations, he was hoping to show the new Labour government is ready to finally fix the sewage crisis.
However, he received a backlash from water campaigners, who not only don’t believe any of the executives will see the inside of a prison cell, but also voiced concerns about the lack of policy and investment to actually deal with the UK’s failing sewage infrastructure.
Campaigners told i Mr Reed’s announcement originally included no mention of a root and branch review into the water industry’s failings before it was “hastily added” after pressure from environmental groups ahead of a speech at Thames Rowing Club in Putney on Thursday morning.
It’s a start though.
Put an executive in a real prison to serve real time and maybe they will fall in line. Nothing else has worked.
A fine is just “pay to ignore law”
They’re right it won’t but let’s do it anyway.
Putting some chump in prison solves fuck all, take their fucking money and actually clean this shit up!
Yep and locking up robbers dosent stop crime.
But that dose not mean these fucking robber barons should be free either.
I’m glad that they are at least aware of how upset we all are about pollution. I don’t think it’s enough to command cooperation in investigating spills after they’ve already happened though. Lots of things need to looked at and acted on, quickly.
There’s a good video here about the impact of poultry farming on the Wye for example:
