Feargal Sharkey
@Feargal_Sharkey
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National Spokesperson for the Borsetshire Clean Water Action Group.
Joined October 2015
Feargal's Big Dummy's Guide to Sewage Dumping updated 22/12/2023.
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It's a very good point. Are any of the roughly 8.5 million people in England currently suffering under a hosepipe ban getting a discount on their water bills for a reduced service?. IT'S THE WATER INDUSTRY. Of course not.
@Feargal_Sharkey Don’t worry @Feargal_Sharkey they have bought in a hosepipe ban to cover the cost of the fine! Reduced service should equate to reduced bills @YorkshireWater .Still looking for your Yorkshire Water Aid ads at cinemas👇
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Oh look, yet another water company fined for polluting a river and killing fish and does any of it make a blind bit of difference? . Of course not. Now what about that "oh but we're going to send water company executives to jail", any chance of that happening?. Of course not.
Yorkshire Water fined £865,000 for polluting freshwater dike in Barnsley.
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"British air traffic is run like a water company. That’s why it failed,". What a day for the water industry. You have now become a benchmark for failure and incompetence. Bravo, well done. 👏👏👏.
telegraph.co.uk
Making sure that a natural monopoly runs itself in the best interest of the customers isn’t simple. But we really must do better than this
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In case you missed it in one of its last dying breaths before being axed Ofwat has allowed water companies to double, yes double the amount they pay back on their steaming piles of debt from £11,057,000,000 in 2019 - 2024 to £22,047,000,000 in 2025 - 2030. And guess who gets to.
Today’s shock @ofwat briefing to city showing allowing doubling ( to £22bn) water companies allowed to take for return on capital (Thank you David Hall for pointing this out) for next 5 years. #peoplescommission
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Nice!.
⚠️High E. coli count from water sampling results at Portmuck. Temporary advice against bathing issued 30 July 2025. Look out for bathing water operator signs for specific advice
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Factchecked and debunked. Everything you need to know that govt's so called independent water commission didn't tell you.
windrushwasp.org
The final report from the independent Water Commission, led by Sir Jon Cunliffe, arrived on July 21st, 464 pages and 88 recommendations.A lot to wade through, but don't worry, we won't drag you on...
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"'Raw sewage' warning at Scots beach as swimmers warned not to enter the water.". Meanwhile north of the border. 🤔.
dailyrecord.co.uk
The sample was taken at a popular wild swimming spot and detected a high bacterial level.
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"Scenes for Channel 4 ‘sewage scandal’ docu-drama shot at Kingsgate Bay.". Coming to a screen near you soon. 👆.
theisleofthanetnews.com
Filming at Kingsgate Bay this week is understood to be for a docu-drama on the country’s sewage scandal. The Channel 4 programme, working title Isle of Sh*te, comes from the makers of Partygate – a…
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The reality behind @Ofwat's so called fines. 👇.
Ofwat proposes that Anglian Water pays £62.8m for sewage dumping. £57m forced investment in infrastructure + £5.8m in local environment projects. It should do that anyway. Will improve its balance sheet, and future returns. There is no penalty.
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RT @premnsikka: Fines on water companies are not fines. On 6 August 2024.Thames Water fined £104m for sewage dumping. May be paid by 20 Au….
leftfootforward.org
Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government
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"Water reform: From Ofwat to what?". I find myself wondering, how many of the former chairs and board members of @Ofwat and the @EnvAgency would now like to apologise for the abominable, extraordinary mess they've created and the tens of billions of pounds liability they've now.
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:Charity in legal action against minister for failing to act over Thames Water.". "Under section 24 of the Water Industry Act 1991, special administration can be triggered by a water company’s failure to meet performance standards, including environmental pollution, and a breach.
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Now that @AnglianWater has been fiend £62.8 million for "excessive" sewage dumping how long do we think it will before @BBCNorfolk run a little puff piece? 🤔.
thisismoney.co.uk
Anglian Water has become the latest water company to face enforcement action after failing to deal with sewage leaks, resulting in 'excessive' spills.
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"Anglian Water ordered to pay £63m for sewage failures.An investigation by Ofwat found that the company had systematically failed to manage its wastewater treatment assets effectively since 2017.". So here's one of @Ofwat's little tricks, note the "since 2017". That's the period.
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So @AnglianWater has been fined £62.8 million for illegally dumping their sewage into the environment. In an act of self-pity CEO Mark Thurston, said: “We understand the need to rebuild trust with customers and that aspects of our performance need to improve to do that.". Would.
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"England’s farmers to get new payments for cleaning up waterways.". Why are taxpayers being asked to pay farmers to clean up a mess they created? Or is it just more cheap playground politics?. And what about that polluter pays principle thing then?.
theguardian.com
Environment secretary says Defra will be launching changes to post-Brexit scheme for sustainable farming
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Of course what Ofwat is tying to mask here is what we've known all along, and which they denied, sewage should only ever be dumped in "exceptional circumstances" or as they now admit, the legislation that @AnglianWater has broken, sewage works must be "designed. constructed,.
An Ofwat investigation has found that Anglian Water has breached its legal obligations, failing to manage its wastewater treatment works and network. Read more:
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