Soft touch
I would assume so. Paying a salary of 30m would be dopey as you’d loose in excess of half it to tax and I would doubt they’d do that. As for those other countries, which ones? The other G7 nations, the US can even get drinking water to its people.I wonderif this is including there bonus’s? What must other countries think of “Great Britain”
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Hasn’t there also been a record number of discharges as well, so that despite legal action being taken the incidence hasn’t been effected. Yet anyway.
It certainly feels like there is an increase in pollution incidences. We can only hope that more legal cases makes a difference as it's the only way. Of course constant protest outside the homes of these CEO's might be more persuasive.
CEOs are generally rhino-skinned and have a ready made answer to any protests like that unfortunately. In my experience the people who really suffer are the families who aren’t guilty of anything.
I think most water company budget for being fined, so when it happens they don't care. The only way to reduce discharges would be to impose prison sentences on chief executives.
Or put it into covenant that they cannot take dividends unless the environmental responsibility is made, technically they shouldn’t be able to take dividends from a loss making corporation but it seems they do. The result being, it heavily impacts the shareholders and company’s ability to pay dividends, bonuses etc making them unprofitable unless they toe the line. You’ll never get a big enough stick through the system and public ownership makes no difference, Scotland and previous history shows that. Take away the carrot unless they for fill there responsibility, which should be to the environment and the customer first.
