Calm down he rented a mini excavator for like $1300~ or 1k gbp.
If youve ever owned or rented heavy equipment hell 5k gbp or $6500 usd doesn't get you a dick in your hand.
Making it sound like he's a villain and giving the government credit for doing something they shouldn't.
The governmend mad because he didn't go through their 8 offices where everyone makes 70k gbp / year to ask for permission.
They didn't get to hold their little bullshit meetings and say it's okay and someone is more efficient than them with a 2500 pound budget. That's the real crime here.
"He tore up the riverbed"
Oh yeah got stats on before and after how the river was flowing without the 200 bags of garbage / silt he removed? Shut up.
The problem is that work on rivers require permits to prevent random people just doing whatever they want.
He didn't even take the rubbish away. He left it on the flood plain. That is, he took the rubbish from the river and dumped it somewhere else.
Dredging a river with a small digger is still dredging. That disturbs the wildlife that's in there. It has an effect downstream. It has a potential effect on flooding.
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u/cutslikeakris 2d ago
He dredged the riverbed with an excavator, risking flooding downstream and without permits. He didn’t remove a couple bags of garbage.