I suspect that wasn't their first offence either, what about the deterrent message that JP sentence was meant to be don't see the water companies have been taking notice of their previousAnglian water was fined just over 2 million pounds last week for pollution and had a long list of non compliance. Nobody from the firm was banned from being a director or sent to prison!
River Lugg, Herefordshire
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It is so one sided utilities just a slap considering previous but a farmer touched things all h brakes out. 
renewablejohn
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I noticed on the Somerset levels pressure group site that EA are still upto their old tricks with a section flooded this year which the locals had demanded to be dredged as not dredged since 2017.
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No doubt someone will get his digger out and be sent to prison... These pricks need holding to account for this type of rubbish sooner or later its really starting to wind me up now (though some might say I am wound up a little too easily sometimes)
ollie989898
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It's really odd as the contractors seem to be doing something, somewhere virtually all year round. If they aren't digging they have the reed cutting bucket on or they are hedgetrimming the banks- they've got one of those spearhead do-dahs for the job.
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LMonbiot has delivered his piece and calls out this thread… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/03/england-rivers-election-sewage-water-pollution
What a fcking tw.at. The guys an extremist who does the environment no favours, he has a chip on his shoulders about land ownership too. Theres plenty for sale, go buy some george.
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Its bloody handy mind you, they have wasted the budgets on anything bar actual maintainance , got everything in a right state and now ask do you want to take it over!
Paddington
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Vive les ignorants !
serf
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Why would they be ?Nobody from the firm was banned from being a director or sent to prison!
They are above the law , didn't you know ......
BertieFizzog
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All Price did was to try to ensure 'he' didn't get flooded - an thus pushed the problem onto others downstream who now might!
Pretty selfish and brainless action overall. He's no hero.
So you don’t think the ea should be cleaning the river further down stream
using your approach the whole country would be flooded
serf
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Yea , you would think these rivers were there to get rid of water from the local vacinity and send them down stream wouldn't you like they have done for hundreds of years .......
What a silly thing to do by moving the cràp and obstructions out so it can flow !
After all it's only there to be a stagnant ditch for a few dragonflies .....
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I think everybody (except farmers) forget, that we have managed waterways, to ensure the (often very highly fertile) land adjacent to rivers is protected to allow it to grow food. Having just read the article in the Guardian, if we "rewild" the uplands, allow the fertile river valleys to flood and become wetlands, that doesn't leave much ground to produce food, we already don't produce enough for the population.
Threads like drought in Spain etc, show that global food supply is not something that can be relied upon, especially as after the Covid/lockdown fiasco we are not as wealthy a country as we think we are.
Threads like drought in Spain etc, show that global food supply is not something that can be relied upon, especially as after the Covid/lockdown fiasco we are not as wealthy a country as we think we are.
grainboy
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Think you find Bertiefizzog is a newbie, probably anti farming member,
Funny how they appear when contentious issues are raised, !!
Funny how they appear when contentious issues are raised, !!
ollie989898
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You know how rivers work, right? And gravity, yeh?
Where did you get that idea from, do you work for the EA as well? People clearing the channel of a watercourse encourage flooding further down?
The river is now effectively a man-made structure. Rivers and other watercourses have been managed for centuries in the UK, you must realise this? Without any management they will silt up, flood and destroy property, it's that simple.
Tamar
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The bloke is a complete bell-end that picks through the internet stories that sensationalise his agenda.
.........yet is then happy to eat the food that all us wicked farmers produce !
If you are reading this George, you can quote me on the fact that I think that you are a deluded individual.
renewablejohn
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How on earth can he be accused of pushing the problem onto others downstream. Can you not see the road bridge is effectively a leaky dam for which the downstream river was effectively designed to take the maximum flow of the leaky dam. Only when the road bridge is overtopped by floodwater can the upper reaches be accused of flooding the lower reaches and as that has not happened since the work was carried out I believe you could say it was a good job well done. Just a shame the rest of the river has not be maintained to cope with the original predicted flow.
ollie989898
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He is anti-landowning. It's that simple. I'm not really sure that there is anything he is actually in favour of.
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well, The Farming Forum has just been mentioned in the Guardian article, so will now have a bigger audience with non farmers.
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