In loving memory of Alan Tomlinson (7 November 1947–13 February 2024)
Sunday Times Business 10 November 2013. By Danny Forston. This is a good bit!
You could be forgiven for thinking that the media stink about UK water companies and sewage pollution is something new. Far from it! This Sunday Times Business Section article from November 2013, explains how the precarious funding of the water companies could result in us (UK taxpayers) having to bail them out. Essentially, they have borrowed money up to the hilt, paid out bonusses and dividends to shareholders and directors, and now claim they’re skint (they’re not skint but that’s what they want us to believe).
Nothing much has changed since 2013, except the mood of the people. The public is quickly waking up to the fact that the water companies, whilst charging us for transporting and treating our waste, are pumping it into our rivers and seas to avoid making investment. Thanks to the campaigning of Feargal Sharkey and Paul Whitehouse and other high-profile individuals, most people now realise that we are being defecated on from a great height.
Malton is a textbook example of how raw sewage is being dumped into the river Derwent rather than Yorkshire Water invest in upgrading its sewers, pumping stations, and increasing the capacity of the Malton Sewage Treatment Works on York Road Industrial Estate, Malton.
As I will explain, Yorkshire Water, North Yorkshire Council, and the Environment Agency (The Multi-Agency Partnership) all know what Yorkshire Water is doing. Yorkshire Water is pumping untreated sewage into the river Derwent in Malton and Norton and Old Malton, and onto streets and into people’s gardens, and the TOP SECRET Malton, Norton and Old Malton Pumping Plan (2015, DRAFT) explains how they do it. Hopefully we can have some fun along the way. Alan Tomlinson’s 2013 sewer solo was broadcast on BBC Look North presented by Cathy Killick. Alan died on Monday 13th February 2024 aged 76.
In loving memory of Alan Tomlinson: (7 November 1947–13 February 2024)
Photo of Alan Tomlinson by Kippa Matthews (RIP). Read a review… Watch a video of Alan in Krakow