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Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison (futurism.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] ghurab@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He basically dug up the entire riverbed. That isn’t something people should just be doing ad-hoc.

Fully agree, but there seems to be no better alternative.

Powlesland told the Guardian he’s asked the agency numerous times to clean the river, but it’s been ignoring him for years.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Exactly, it seems the environment agency is useless.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

or the environmental agency has other more pressing matters to attend to in its 50-year plan, and dredging the river there could drastically disrupt their flood planning.

my county's 50-year plan just finished. we just turned the entire damn county from a 10-year floodplain to a 100-year floodplain (by dredging creeks and digging new canals). It took fifty. damn. years. Easiest way to tell who was a local was who was celebrating when they finished.