Wales Floods 'Major Incident': Make Polluters Pay for Damage, Greenpeace Says

Flooding in southwest Wales has escalated to a ‘major incident’ requiring fire services to rescue people from homes and vehicles, and a ‘threat to life’ warning is still in place. 

Emily Black, Greenpeace UK spokesperson, from Haverfordwest, said: “People in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire deserve better protections from these horrendous floods, and the UK government should make fossil fuel giants pay their fair share of the bill, because they’re the ones fuelling the climate crisis making flooding worse and more frequent.

“Polluter taxes on fossil fuel companies could help pay for flood defences, adaptations and recovery for people in Wales and elsewhere - it’s a popular idea among voters and already backed by politicians such as Caerfyrddin MP Ann Davies, Ceredigion Preseli MP Ben Lake and Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi. Worsening floods are not a natural disaster, they’re a symptom of the climate crisis, so it’s only right to make the polluters responsible - not Welsh flood victims - pay.”