UK's Top Polluters Exposed

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Thursday, 31 July 2003

They make billions in profits, and deliver millions in dividiends to their shareholders. They care a sight less about the environment.

More than a dozen blue chip companies were revealed yesterday as serial polluters who simply shrug off the paltry fines for breaking the law. Even for Anglian Water Services, the worst of Britain's offenders last year, the financial penalties amounted to less than one-thousandth of its annual profit.

Other top polluters were BP, Thames Water, Shanks and United Utilites

Source: Charles Arthur in The Independent. For full story visit
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=429167