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Fish Legal win a landmark legal battle to force utility companies to reveal all sewage leaks into rivers and lakes. As part of their ongoing efforts to provide the best information on Utility companies in England & Wales now have to reveal information on water abstraction and sewerage leaks to the public., A O Seafoods Ltd has been following closely the ongoing lawsuit brought by Fish Legal which launched a six year legal campaign for greater transparency within the water and sewerage industry. The outcome makes it possible to see important aspects of Utility companies in England & Wales behaviour as these now have to reveal information on water abstraction and sewerage leaks to the public.
According to Fish Legal: “The water and sewerage industry causes significant damage to the environment every year. This is partly due to the very nature of what it does in treating sewage and abstracting water, but in many cases is due to mismanagement and under reporting of incidents. The industry will now have to open up what it does to much greater public scrutiny. Interested individuals can view the full article here.
One of the most surprising pieces of information in the article is the fact that According to Fish Legal: “the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has intervened once again and issued its own judicial review challenge against the jurisdiction of the Upper Tribunal to hear the case. A move Fish Legal sees as an obvious attempt to derail its appeal.” This means that Fish Legal must now fight two sets of proceedings to succeed…
In discussing the article, of A O Seafoods Ltd said, “It is particularly important to all who use these utility companies to be able to see whether they are behaving responsibly with the environment. By seeing these reports consumers can put pressure on these companies by boycotting them in favour of environmentaly responable utility companies
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