Water companies could be let off fines for polluting the environment under changes announced in the government’s new white paper.
The environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, hailed the changes as “once-in-a-generation reforms” featuring “tough oversight, real accountability and no more excuses”.
Campaigners called the proposed move to soften the approach to fines “desperate”, and said the government was letting companies off the hook.
They already don’t give a fuck about poisoning the environment when they get punished for it, how do you think giving them a free ride to do it will help anything?