Northumbrian Water ordered to publish unreleased North Sea sewage data
They said they're committed to protecting and enhancing coasts, rivers and watercourses.
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00:00I'm Paul Coulson, I work for the Institute of Fisheries Management, and at the moment I'm the Acting Chief Executive.
00:07Lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages being paid to people, and your general public don't see an improvement in their services.
00:17So you're paying them however much they're paying out in dividends, it's big numbers, isn't it?
00:22Yet we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and we can see rubbish everywhere, can't we?
00:29You see stories of dead fish and impacts on the marine environment.
00:36We can put a drone up now, can't we, and we can see clear as day where the pipes are and it's pumping sewage in,
00:42and you can pan round and there's people swimming in the sea.
00:45An appeal tribunal against Northumbrian Water ordered the firm to publish details on hundreds of thousands of tonnes of outflows into the North Sea
00:52after refusing to release them, but they said they're committed to protecting and enhancing coasts, rivers and watercourses.