Exposed: the secret plot to sink tougher sewage rules
No.
Several water companies privately lobbied to weaken the government’s £56 billion plan to reduce sewage spills from storm overflows, arguing that it risked driving up consumer bills by hundreds or even thousands of pounds.
A statement of reality is not a plot.
Someone, somewhere, has to carry that £56 billion cost. As the only folk out there, the citizenry of the nation, it’ll be them.
Shrug.
Feargal Sharkey: Why I’m backing The Times Clean It Up campaign
A little twat these days is easy to find.
I don’t understand why companies don’t itemise their bills to show the costs of government. So the water company would have:
Cost of supplying clean water: ££
Cost of taking away and treating the shit: ££
Cost of complying with all the government bullshit: ££££
Total: £££££££
Or a petrol station would have:
Cost of fuel: pennies
Cost of North Sea tax: ££
Cost of Carbon tax: £££
Cost of VAT (including on all the other tax): £££
Total: ££££££
etc etc
Agree with BIW.
It’s not as simple as the companies just pass on the cost and we all pay though – they’re pretty much state monopolies masquerading as private companies. This is pretty much old school fascism, and that offers a clue as to why they don’t do as BIW suggests I suppose.
‘add only £12 a year on average to water bills between 2025 and 2030, and £42 a year by 2050’
This is simply a lie.
Feargal is well into his fishing these days. Nominative Determinism?
Ducky – last I heard, he and Jilted John were crying like a couple of fairies.
“Exposed: the secret plot …”
That, from a paper wherein pompous prats belittle people who believe in conspiracies i.e. secret plots.
Maybe Big Water could do the equivalent of the National Grid now paying people not to consume electricity just after the sun has gone down on windless evenings.
Pay people not to take a shit when there’s a hard rain. Or not flush to be more precise.
BiW
Canucks in British Columbia did just that in the 90s breaking down cost of supply, station profits, and taxes and govmnt costs. They used to stick stickers to the pumps all over.
Gvmt banned that of course. Iirc they charged stations positing it of putting out misleading information, and then finned them for stickers. Quitely of course.
Then gvmnt ran campaigns blaming greedy oil companies.