The Secretary of State has been blasted over policy that is said could turn the Northern Ireland coastline into ‘a cesspit’, despite his party suffering serious backlash over sewage pollution in England.
According to a screening document Chris Heaton-Harris "initiated" the policy proposing Northern Ireland Water stop treating wastewater before it’s discharged into the sea in a bid to save money.
His party stood idly by while private water companies pumped raw sewage into English waters over 300,000 times last year and now it seems bill payers will be forced to pay the £10 billion needed for systems upgrades that weren’t done while shareholders raked in huge dividends.
