> The water company declined to provide the BBC with the data showing exactly when each of the pumps into the lake was operating, claiming this data is classed as “internal communications”, which did not have to be disclosed under environmental information regulations.
I’m just trying to understand how these things have become systemic. What is the point in having regulatory bodies?
Earlyflash on
You don’t have to kill the regulations in Parliament if you just underfund them so spectacularly, they become utterly toothless.
Marcuse0 on
Oh no! They’ll have to increase bills by 40% to fix this!
Perudur1984 on
Take the water companies into public ownership next week. They have poisoned our water supplies and ripped us off for far too long. They should be offered a nominal price for any assets and if they don’t accept, seize them into public ownership. Water really is that important and a matter of national security.
iLukey on
Custodial sentences for execs would solve this shit. Either they’d immediately stop doing it because they didn’t need to in the first place, or they’d invest in the infrastructure they _should’ve_ invested in years (decades) ago to ensure it never needed to happen at all.
Fines are just a surcharge for cuntish behaviour to these companies.
Vanobers on
Obviously no jail time for anyone involved, jail is just for us plebs
CcryMeARiver on
Combined sewers overwhelmed by stormwater? Must be time to consider installing a separate system to handle most of that stormwater.
Spare-Reception-4738 on
I think we need to start forcing water companies and MPs to swim in these waters
locutus92 on
We need some massive fines and severe jail sentences for the directors.
ThePhenix on
If it hadn’t been for investigative journalism this would never have come to light. Shocking that the regulators aren’t regulating, and despicable that companies feel they can pollute the commons without consequence.
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> The water company declined to provide the BBC with the data showing exactly when each of the pumps into the lake was operating, claiming this data is classed as “internal communications”, which did not have to be disclosed under environmental information regulations.
I’m just trying to understand how these things have become systemic. What is the point in having regulatory bodies?
You don’t have to kill the regulations in Parliament if you just underfund them so spectacularly, they become utterly toothless.
Oh no! They’ll have to increase bills by 40% to fix this!
Take the water companies into public ownership next week. They have poisoned our water supplies and ripped us off for far too long. They should be offered a nominal price for any assets and if they don’t accept, seize them into public ownership. Water really is that important and a matter of national security.
Custodial sentences for execs would solve this shit. Either they’d immediately stop doing it because they didn’t need to in the first place, or they’d invest in the infrastructure they _should’ve_ invested in years (decades) ago to ensure it never needed to happen at all.
Fines are just a surcharge for cuntish behaviour to these companies.
Obviously no jail time for anyone involved, jail is just for us plebs
Combined sewers overwhelmed by stormwater? Must be time to consider installing a separate system to handle most of that stormwater.
I think we need to start forcing water companies and MPs to swim in these waters
We need some massive fines and severe jail sentences for the directors.
If it hadn’t been for investigative journalism this would never have come to light. Shocking that the regulators aren’t regulating, and despicable that companies feel they can pollute the commons without consequence.