Brits worried about critical infrastructure protection
Swaths of Britain are under water, with hundreds of thousands without power; some worry that the UK is not doing enough to proetct criticalinfrastructure
This week’s flooding in the United Kingdom (even parts of Oxford are under water) has demonstrated the urgency of protecting key infrastructure, according to Liberal Democrat shadow environment secretary, Chris Huhne MP (Eastleigh). He said:
“The Government needs to look at protecting critical infrastructure like the Walham switching station and the Mythe water treatment works as an urgent matter given the experience of these floods. The Government’s own review work as long ago as 2004 called for key infrastructure to be protected, but this seems to be one of the areas that has been overlooked by DEFRA [Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs] since then.”
