Why is the canal and river trust needing to fundraise to clean up a company's mess?
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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Surely you can't be advocating for for-profit private companies to pay for their own mess? What would the shareholders think?
How are we supposed to continue to create wealth for those who don't need any more wealth if we demand they use their own ill gotten gains to clean up their mess?
That doesn't make any sense at all!
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As the article about the donations, linked to within this article, says:
"Of course, the company responsible should pay, but the timing and outcome of the investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) is uncertain, and we must act now to protect nature as best we can."
The companies should be paying for the cleanup, they can then appeal against the cleanup cost if they can prove it was not them. Had enough of this bullshit. Guilty until proven innocent for environmental damage
That headline can be read in at least 2 ways…
I assume that's the intention. I read it "the other way" at first.