"Thames Water could be nationalised under Burnham tenure without spending a pennyβ."
Now there's a very good idea and there are plenty of ways to do it all that's needed is vision, determination and ambition.
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Andy Burnham has halted the Nationalisation of Thames Water.
As the law currently stands Water Companies need a Water License to be able to sell you Water.
Almost all of them have broken pollution laws, their licenses could be revoked today because of that.
Then they would be unable to charge you.
Then Nationalised for free.
"Appointment of former Yorkshire Water boss and Openreach chairman part of latest attempt by London & Valley Water to win support for its contentious plan."
It sometimes beggars belief how stupid supposedly clever people can be. The American VC funds now running Thames Water are trumpeting the former CEO of Yorkshire Water as the saviour of the company.
Really? During and following Liz Barber's spell as CEO of Yorkshire Water the company has,
* "loaned" Β£940 million, of bill payers money I suspect, to the company's Hong Kong owners, without telling the regulator.
* Is now in such financial peril that it is on Ofwat's "Enhanced concern", list.
* Is Β£7.5 billion in debt.
* Is putting up customers bills by 41%.
* Leaks about 98 billion litres of water per year.
* Was fined Β£40 million last year for illegally dumping sewage.
* And since 2020 has spent a total of 2,459,367 hours dumping sewage into our rivers and onto our beaches.
* Oh and Liz was paid Β£1.3 million the last year she worked for the company.
And all of that is supposed to make us feel better but Thames Water?
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Crows are incredibly clever. This one figured out how to turn a tap on to get water and even remembered to turn it off afterwards. Their ability to learn, remember, and repeat useful behaviours is amazing
Why is it I wonder that water companies are furiously resisting having to measure exactly how much sh*t they dump into our rivers and why are govt, Ofwat and the EA letting them away with it?
When an expert is not really an expert. The embarrassing case where Dr. Mack, the Commonwealth's "expert witness" in Clancy previously testified for the State of Florida. The State lost.
The Eleventh Circuit wrote:
"The long and short of it is that the district court acted well within its discretion (nothing it did was manifestly erroneous) when it determined that Dr. Mack was not qualified by background, training, or expertise to opine about the degree of drug use in Florida's TANF population."
@defense_diaries :The opinion writes extensively about why he was correctly disqualified.
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Watch how one groundhog reacts while its companion gets its claws trimmed.ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ β€οΈππ
The white-lipped pit viper (Trimeresurus insularis), found on the lesser Sunda islands of Indonesia
the blue variety is rare, and only occurs in places such as Komodo Islands
Five years ago, a geode was cracked open with blue crystals and googly eyes.
It looked exactly like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street.
It might be the happiest geological discovery in history. π
Because Iβm never half naked (you donβt want to see that π) the algorithms donβt like me so Iβm relying on you guys sharing my work to the world to showcase my talents of photographing as many detailed subjects in flight as I can. Thank you all for looking in on my work ππΏ.