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Home » News » Sewage: Feargal Sharkey announcement hope – as discharge pumped ‘372,533 times’ last year

Sewage: Feargal Sharkey announcement hope – as discharge pumped ‘372,533 times’ last year

Therese Coffey is reportedly backing away from plans to hit water companies with fines of up to £250 million for spilling sewage into rivers and seas.

Scott M by Scott M
February 14, 2023
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The latest data from the Environment Agency recorded 111,143 days’ worth of raw sewage being discharged into England’s rivers in 2021. This is the equivalent of 372,525 individual spillages over 2,667,439 minutes.

'372,533 times last year, raw sewage was discharged into our waterways' – @RobbieRinder

Therese Coffey is reportedly backing away from plans to hit water companies with fines of up to £250 million for spilling sewage into rivers and seas. pic.twitter.com/1RL5x5oJZH

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) February 13, 2023

The news comes as Sewage was pumped into Oxfordshire stream for 95 hours in seven days.

An Oxfordshire stream had almost four days of sewage dumped into it over a week in January, making it the worst in the Thames Water region https://t.co/GDIUzFNLSc #CleanItUp pic.twitter.com/EVnGZn6vSp

— Adam Vaughan (@adamvaughan_uk) February 13, 2023

Chelsea Hothem, of the River Thame Conservation Trust, said: “As a headwater stream and the most northerly waterway of the River Thame [a tributary of the Thames], the Hardwick Brook is an important piece of the ecological jigsaw in our catchment. Healthy river systems start with their headwaters. If we can’t look after these, we don’t stand a chance in looking after the rest of the river,” she said

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A spokesman for Thames Water said: “We are absolutely committed to protecting and enhancing our rivers and the communities who love them, and we want to make these discharges of diluted sewage unnecessary as quickly as possible.

The sewage scandal is all over our media. MPs' inboxes are full of constituents horrified at state of our waterways. Our @CommonsEAC report last year found a chemical cocktail in every river in the UK. Yet our Govt *still* turns a blind eye & lets private water firms off the hook pic.twitter.com/jCYFWWreFu

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) February 13, 2023

Feargal Sharkey

However, Feargal Sharkey has just released a statement that might give hope to everyone who wants the government and water companies to clean up our waterways.

He wrote: “@WildFishCons, which I am honorary vice president of, has just been granted permission to take government to the High Court and challenge the legality of their deeply flawed sewage reduction plan. For more info contact WildFish.”

*** HOT OFF THE PRESS ***@WildFishCons, which I am honorary vice president of, has just been granted permission to take government to the High Court and challenge the legality of their deeply flawed sewage reduction plan.

For more info contact WildFish. pic.twitter.com/4zY48E2HQF

— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) February 14, 2023

He followed up with this tweet.

Kind of you to suggest that but the credit for all of this goes to the team at @WildFishCons lead by @NickMeasham they did all the work, huge round of applause to them.

👋👋👋

— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) February 14, 2023

Related: #TorySewageParty trends AGAIN as list of Tories voting to allow sewage dumping goes viral

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