Sewage pollution could be brought to a rapid end after the High Court began a hearing which environmentalist groups hope could entirely upend the water industry 💧 CapurrodDaniel reports
could be brought to a rapid end after the High Court began a hearing which environmentalist groups hope could entirely upend the water industry.could end up footing an enormous bill to immediately clean up England’s rivers.plan to eliminate sewage spills by 2050The argument that WildFish’s lawyers will make rests on two key ideas.
In short, WildFish claims that Ms Coffey and previous environment secretaries, going back three decades, have simply failed to enforce the law to“It is time for the Government to end its ‘smoke and mirrors’ approach to environmental regulation once and for all and make the water companies do what they have promised to do, and have been required to do by law, for nearly 30 years,” said Nick Measham, chief executive of WildFish.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates that ending all discharges could run into the hundreds of billions of pounds. Indeed, the case may hinge on how the presiding judge interprets whether water companies have been making use of best knowledge and if the hundreds of thousands of spills a year are genuinely due to exceptional circumstances.
If WildFish does succeed, Mr Measham believes it could have wide-ranging consequences for the water industry. It could mean water companies being forced to take immediate and very expensive action to end discharges and without hitting customers – something the market might not support.. “It could be that shareholders, debt holders get wiped out. That’s called capitalism. That’s tough. Or they could put more money into the companies.without compensation because the companies have failed.
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