Actor Steve Coogan has accused water company United Utilities of "greenwashing" and "PR spin" as he criticised the company for putting sewage into Windermere.
The I’m Alan Partridge star joined a protest outside the company's North West offices near the lake as he called on the Government to compel them to clean up England’s largest lake rather than pay huge dividends to shareholders.
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The I’m Alan Partridge star joined a protest outside the company's North West offices near the lake as he called on the Government to compel them to clean up England’s largest lake rather than pay huge dividends to shareholders.
Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The reason I'm here today is to support Matt Staniak and all the people who are protesting
00:04 against United Utilities and telling them to stop putting human effluent in England's
00:10 biggest lake, which they've been doing for 30 years, whilst paying record dividends to
00:14 shareholders. We're saying they've got to stop doing that, not pass the bill on to the
00:17 customer and use the money that they're paying out. £12 billion in dividends they've paid
00:24 over the last 30 years, £12 billion, and they're talking about chucking £40, £70
00:29 million at it. It's chicken feed. It has to stop. The public have a right to clean water
00:33 and to be able to swim in clean water.