Il fiume Herefordshire impiegherà decenni per riprendersi dal “vandalismo”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m2xnr1pmxo
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Il fiume Herefordshire impiegherà decenni per riprendersi dal “vandalismo”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m2xnr1pmxo
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>It’s amazing the damage that a human being can do in a very short amount of time.
An ecologist says it will take 20 to 30 years for a stretch of River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover after being damaged by a local farmer.
John Price was jailed in 2023 for illegally removing tonnes of gravel from the riverbed to build a road and horse yard at his home and tearing out 71 trees.
He was ordered to pay £600,000 and to restore the damage he had done.
I’ve always felt that in cases like this, the government should confiscate the land. It’s the only way landowners will learn if they lose half their property after illegally tearing down a bunch of trees or removing gravel from the river.
There is zero chance he’s going to restore the damage. He’s just going to kick the can down the road and ignore it until the council forgets
He has a history off this sort of behaviour:
* In 1998 the farmer piled rubble against the riverbank claiming it was some sort of flood barrier
* In August 1999 he removed about 10 tonnes of gravel from the river without consent
* In July 2007 he was prosecuted for creating a dam across a tributary in order to irrigate his potato crop, drying up the river for 1.5km downstream
* In November 2018, Mr Price reprofiled the river at Oxpasture and created flood embankments using material he had scraped from the river
* In July 2020 Mr Price was warned about planting crops right up to the riverbank and failing to observe a buffer zone
[Here’s the other side of the story](https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/farmer-hits-back-over-flood-work-on-protected-river) (make of it what you will)
[Interview with the guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85E007pByVI)
“Farmer” is such BS propaganda when you Google this guy