Tagged: Environment agency

Well he dillied and he dallied

Sir Philip Dilley, controversial chairman of the Environment Agency, has resigned. His resignation statement included this explanation:”My reason for resigning is that the expectations of the role have expanded to require the Chairman to be available at short notice throughout the year, irrespective of routine arrangements for deputy and executive...

And don’t Dilley Dally on the way

And don’t Dilley Dally on the way

The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday on the interesting story about Sir Philip Dilley, the Chairman of the Environment Agency, being out of the country on holiday in Barbados as the Boxing Day floods hit. Now, to be charitable, everyone is allowed a holiday, and nobody could perhaps have accurately predicted...

EA asleep at the wheel?

EA asleep at the wheel?

The recent debacle in Balcombe where the Environment agency found itself asleep at the wheel until Friends of the Earth alerted it to shortcomings in its own permitting for Cuadrilla’s current exploration operations, shows us how ludicrous Mr Cameron’s rhetoric that “No regulation must get in the way” of shale...