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Feargal's Big Dummy's Guide to Sewage Dumping updated 22/12/2023.
Feargal Sharkey
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Feargal Sharkey
@Feargal_Sharkey
National Spokesperson for the Borsetshire Clean Water Action Group.
Joined October 2015
- 104 days after been fined £90m for dumping sewage into the environment and less than 12 hours after Gov voted to protect water companies and not our rivers, @SouthernWater were dumping sewage at 60, yes 60, different locations along the south coast of England. #COP26 hypocrisy
- Take a bow Feargal Sharkey. Single handedly caused electoral meltdown in many rural Tory wards ✊
- Oh my, I owe you all an enormous, ENORMOUS thank you. 100,000 Twitter followers, who'd have though, when I first started tweeting about chalk streams, sewage, water companies, hopeless regulation & hapless politics that you'd all find your way here I am humbled. Thank you all
- "Sewage was dumped every four minutes during Therese Coffey’s three years as water minister." Yep you read that right. "presided over 321-years worth of sewage discharge in three years".
- Currently this Tweet has had 1,997,356 Impressions on Twitter. Wouldn't it be nice to make it 2,000,000?104 days after been fined £90m for dumping sewage into the environment and less than 12 hours after Gov voted to protect water companies and not our rivers, @SouthernWater were dumping sewage at 60, yes 60, different locations along the south coast of England. #COP26 hypocrisy
- I was in a shop yesterday and the very wonderful lady behind the counter asked "Aren't you that environmentalist bloke?" Guess that's my music career over then.
- And here they are 👇 the men and woman responsible for dumping 14,027,654 hours worth of sewage into the environment over the last 5 years and helping pollute every single river in the country. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the board of @Ofwat. "In the name of God, go".
- This is massive Supreme Court rules WCs can sued for nuisance or trespass for dumping sewage even if “There has been no negligence or deliberate misconduct”, by the WC That opens the way for 1,000s of claims by fishing clubs, swimmers, riparian owners against WCs. WOW just WOW!
- Short 🧵 on sewage: Following a complaint, in 2012 the EU Commission took the UK Gov to the European Court Justice over allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers. Court ruled it was illegal and that sewage overflows should only ever be used in "exceptional situations"
- The Secretary of State for the Environment, @theresecoffey dismisses what I do as "Regularly touts on Twitter". I call is sticking up for our rivers, beaches and seas and as it transpires 200,000 have decided to come along for the ride. WOW! Immense, so, so immense, thank you!
- As of today every single sewage company in England and Wales is under investigation as part of the "largest ever criminal investigation", into "widespread non-compliance". What the hell has @Ofwat and @EnvAgency been doing the last 33 years?
