Secret Local Government Officer
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16-03-2020 20:45:47
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Q: How does a water company get a 4 star rating from the Environment Agency? A: Make sure at least half of your sewage dumping monitors aren't working or are offline. Easy-peasy. Wouldn't that be right Severn Trent?
Oh deary me, they just can't bloody well help themselves can they. Southern Water's under siege CEO has taken to gaslighting parliament. Now trying to make us all believe that the policy and regulatory change needed by water companies to allow them to fix all of this was brought
Shocking update from independent journalist Richard Medhurst—if you can, please help contribute to his gfm/paypal so he can replace the reporting equipment that Austrian agents have seized. #JournalismIsNotACrime
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over
The Ilchester Estate was fined £28,000 for over abstracting a local chalk stream by 35 cubic meters of water per day. Collectively water companies over abstracted England's chalk streams by about 1,300,000 cubic meters per day. And the Environment Agency does what?
40% of the world's dirty money laundered through London, UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies. Govt can issue Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO). Since 2017, SEVEN UWOs issued. ZERO prosecutions/convictions. Contrast it with attacks on little people. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…
Oh look, spot inspections reveal that 1 in 5 water company discharge permits are being breached. Who'd have guessed. Question is what are the Environment Agency ever going to do about any it? Oh and how is that now three and a half year old "largest ever criminal investigation" into
Water Follies 35 years before privatisation 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir since. Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced. leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nation…