Gli offerenti richiedono l’acqua del Tamigi concesso l’immunità per i crimini ambientali
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/07/bidders-demand-thames-water-granted-immunity-over-environmental-crimes
di AccidentDependent961
Gli offerenti richiedono l’acqua del Tamigi concesso l’immunità per i crimini ambientali
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/07/bidders-demand-thames-water-granted-immunity-over-environmental-crimes
di AccidentDependent961
9 commenti
Future and/or historical? The article didn’t really make that clear
This is ridiculous. Let it die and go into public ownership. And write off all the debt as well.
Hell no! Prosecute current management as a reminder to any new owner that this will happen to them if they do some stupid shit.
If labour accept this will be yet another damning indictment of their leadership
Fine them an amount equivalent to all of their assets, then take the company back into public control without the debt.
Absolutely no way should this be done. Water is a basic human right and should be in the hands of the Nation. This should be something every political party agrees with.
Water should not be monopolised by the inept greedy any longer. We need our Water companies to be worried about the population, not the profits.
Nope. I think either a business buys it as-is or the government buys it for £1 as a last resort. We’ve already pumped millions of public money into it trying to make privatisation work and it just doesn’t.
British tax payers should be the new owner, we should seize all water companies and bring them back under British control.
I couldn’t quite believe the demand but here’s an excerpt from the article.
“Creditors want the environment secretary, Steve Reed, to grant the water company extraordinary clemency from a series of strict rules covering everything from sewage spills to failure to upgrade its water treatment works.
The demands, if successful, would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits.
Thames Water has been a serial offender in recent years, paying tens of millions of pounds in fines and penalties, with multiple convictions for dumping raw sewage into rivers and streams and dozens more investigations under way.”
Why bother to have any rules in the first place? They’ve pumped untreated waste into rivers, been caught and either fined or are still under investigation for repeated offences.
Time for OFWAT to be restructured so it has some meaningful teeth and for Thames Water to be left to face the financial consequences of loading a company with debt that it can’t repay.