The operator of a water treatment plant has been fined £40,000 after a chemical spillage killed more than 500 fish. It happened at Welsh Water’s Felindre water treatment works just […]
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Two firms fined £15k after slurry pollutes river
A Samlesbury firm has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 after farm slurry polluted waterways in the county and could have killed fish in the River Ribble. Withgill Farm […]
Read moreCarlisle Dairy Farm gives back to local environment after polluting river with slurry
Landspreading affected a tributary of the River Eden The Glebe Farm, Hethersgill, near Carlisle, has completed an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident when farm slurry entered Highberries Beck, a […]
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United Utilities gives back to local environment after polluting river with ferric solution
United Utilities PLC has completed an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident where spill of acidic ferric salt solution from Rivington Water Treatment Works caused a significant fish kill in […]
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Southern Water punished over ‘shocking’ wastewater spills
Southern Water has been hit with a record £126m punishment for spills of wastewater into the environment from its sewage plants and for deliberately misreporting its performance. The penalty will […]
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‘Man with a Van’ fly-tipped in East Yorkshire layby – resident fined
AN EAST Yorkshire resident has been fined after hiring a rogue ‘Man with a Van’ who then fly-tipped his rubbish. Thomas Mavin, of High Street, Holme On Spalding Moor, paid […]
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Nottinghamshire farming companies fined £28,000 for pollution that killed fish
Two Nottinghamshire farming companies have been fined a total of £28,800 for causing pollution to a pond through the discharge of maize silage effluent from Sutton Grange farm in Sutton-cum-Lound […]
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Severn Trent Water fined £500K for raw sewage spill
A water company has been fined £500,000 after thousands of gallons of raw sewage flooded a park in Birmingham. Severn Trent Water said it was “truly sorry” for the spillage […]
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How a company that spilled 140,000 litres of oil in a Welsh stream escaped any court action
Hundreds of fish died in the spill and one local angler thinks the death toll was even higher and isn’t happy with the way the case was dealt with. The […]
Read moreBusinesses breaching environmental laws paid £2.2m to charities and projects across the UK
The payments have been made to a total of 15 charities and projects across the UK
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