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Ask him to have a word with their office in Bath.
They are in charge of a flood gate on the river Avon that acts like a sieve collecting all of the man made rubbish that is floating down but instead of removing it, they open the gate when needed and unleash a tidal wave of crap that floats further down the river towards the Severn estuary.
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He's going to do a shit job, because this government is shit and have removed any teeth the EA might have once had. OFWAT is equally toothless. The water companies know they can constantly dump sewage into the rivers because it's barely monitored and if, in the unlikely event of getting caught, the fines are so low that its cost effective to keep dumping.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/philip-duffy-appointed-new-environment-agency-chief-executive
You move in rarified circles.
One has to wonder if the Environment Agency,
as it currently functions,
is fit-for-purpose?