South Ribble MP: Why I voted to allow raw sewage to continue going into our rivers
Mrs Fletcher said:"I voted against the amendment to the environment bill which would have placed a legal duty on water companies not to pump waste into rivers for a number of clear reasons."First and foremost, the amendment did not include an impact assessment and the costs incurred by immediately banning sewage spills would be immense.
"To eliminate storm overflows means transforming the entire Victorian sewage system to a whole new sewage system. It would be irresponsible for any government to spend an estimated preliminary cost of anywhere between £150bn to £650bn to transform the entire sewage system. "To give some perspective, £150bn is more than the entire schools, policing and defence budget put together and £650bn is billions more than we have spent on supporting livelihoods and jobs throughout the health pandemic.
"Had the amendment been adopted, it would have added a huge cost to water companies – and no doubt this cost would have been passed onto consumers."I also voted against the amendment because the Government already made provision for a range of new legally-binding obligations directly on water companies in the Environment Act, such as a duty for water companies to achieve a progressive reduction in the adverse impacts of discharges from storm overflows.
"More broadly, the Government is investing over £3 billion to tackle pollution in rivers and improve the rate of storm overflows.”
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