His coffers sound
With hollow poverty and emptiness.
- British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
- BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
- Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
- John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
- Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
- Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
- Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
- E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
- EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m and their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
- Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
- Welsh Water bosses received bonuses of over £930,000
- Severn Trent bosses received bonuses of £5.56m
- Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary.
MEANWHILE - People are given fines by these same energy/water companies because they cannot afford to pay their bills in. All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October..
