Waste expert: If this was a private firm, they would be in jail

THE Government must “do the right thing” and tackle the toxic waste scandal on Haulbowline Island once and for all, an environmental expert said yesterday.

Environmental consultant Stephen Griffin, who blew the whistle on the scale of the problem, said it would be “criminal” to leave the site as it is.

“The department should never have started the clean-up job without a plan to finish it,” he said.