galmuth
@galmuth@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anglian Water fined £300,000 for sewage pollution in Norfolk 4 months ago:
Such a rubbish fine. It probably barely covers the cost of cleanup of dead fish by the Environment Agency, and the cleanup of private properties which had actual shit floating into them.
Not only was it an illegal discharge of sewage, but in an area they had absolutely no permit to do so, so it shouldn’t have even been possible for sewage to discharge here. And it was directly into a public water supply, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a beautiful National Park. They’ve clearly been extremely careless and/or nefarious when it comes to implementing the infrastructure.
The fine should have been at least ten times the amount.
- Comment on MPs back proposals to legalise assisted dying 4 months ago:
Reading these links, I don’t really understand why, for example, Disability Rights UK are against the assisted dying bill. They don’t say what’s wrong with the bill, they just say it’s bad. This bill is aimed at terminally ill people not disabled people, and its not clear from those links what the issue is.
The only links of yours that do explain in detail the issues with the bill, are relating to an unrelated Scottish bill.
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 5 months ago:
“There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn’t come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh.”
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 6 months ago:
Making short term rental completely illegal is not a good idea as it would impact on local tourism etc, but they should allow (or force) councils to limit licences for short term rentals to a certain percentage of housing.