A. Ask the man to kindly desist
B. Shove the man in the back knocking him to the ground causing him to have a fatal heart attack
C. Stand back and watch the man spray paint over every shop for three years doing irreparable damage before arresting him
If the Policeman was actually an officer working for the British Environment Agency, the answer would be ‘C’.
Hugh O’Donnell has been paraded across the media this week for illegally dumping 70’000 cubic metres of waste over an area bigger than five football pitches, over a period of three years in Aldermaston near Reading, Berkshire.
Considering the vehicle movements necessary to tip that amount of waste, this must have been a very visual operation.
In the UK the onus is upon the waste producer to ensure that their waste is collected by a registered waste carrier (registered with the Environment Agency) and that it’s disposed of at a site specifically licensed to accept it (licensed by the Environment Agency).
The land in Aldermaston, formally a beauty spot, has been declared so badly contaminated by the Environment Agency that it must be left as it is because the money required to ameliorate the site is not available.
Either the Environment Agency didn’t know that 70’000 cubic metres of waste was being illegally tipped over three years, in which case they’re incompetent idiots and heads should role in the agency or they did know but chose to do nothing for three years in which case they’re incompetent idiots and heads should role in the agency.
As to the cost of the clean up; an authority more competent than the Environment Agency should stop at nothing with no expense spared to find out which companies chose to ignore the law and their ‘Duty of Care’ and have their waste ‘dumped cheap’. They should then make them pay for its legal disposal and land clean up.
As for Mr Hugh O’Donnell, he is guilty of nothing more than having the bollocks to rely on the inefficiency, the stupidity and incompetence of our British waste Police.
Well done Hugh O’Donnell; after his four year sentence has been cut to two for good behaviour and that time has passed, he will no doubt be back doing it again, earning lots of money in the process and considering who he’s up against, who can blame him?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8597855/Jail-for-boss-of-illegal-waste-site-the-size-of-five-football-pitches.html
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