In Court
Yorkshire Water fined £600,000 after sewage pollution hits Wakefield fishery
Pollution incident killed hundreds of fish at Walton Colliery Nature Park.
News
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Otters have been spotted in a city centre river once considered one of the most polluted stretches of water in Europe.
The Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust (SRWT) said signs of otters have now been recorded along the whole stretch of the river from Middlewood in the north to the giant Meadowhall shopping centre, which was […]
In Court
A water company has been fined £1m for polluting the Grand Union Canal.
A water company has been fined £1m for polluting the Grand Union canal with sewage from faulty inlet screens at a treatment plant in Hertfordshire.
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Storm Desmond. An extreme weather event? or is it proof that global warming has arrived?
Extratropical Cyclone Storm Desmond formed on the 4th and dissipated on the 8th December 2015. This storm directed a plume of moist air known as an atmospheric river causing record amounts of rainfall on upland […]
Conservation
Better water quality helping save the Freshwater Pearl Mussel
Improved water quality in a river shows that a £3.5 million project to safeguard Freshwater Pearl Mussels is having a positive impact.
In Court
South West Water fined £300,000 after polluting a Devon stream with sewage
SOUTH West Water has been ordered to pay a record £300,000 fine for allowing poorly treated sewage to pollute a Devon stream – for four months. The verdict comes weeks after South West Water was […]
In Court
Stanlow Oil Refinery operators fined almost £500,000 for breaching environmental rules
Operators of the Stanlow Oil Refinery in Ellesmere Port have been fined almost £500,000. Essar Oil Ltd had pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court to three breaches of their environmental permit from incidents in 2012.
Env. Permitting
Stanlow refinery operator admits pollution breaches
The company that runs Stanlow oil refinery has admitted pollution breaches at the installation near Chester.
Water Pollution
Metal Mine Water Treatment Scheme Opens in the Lake District
AN innovative treatment works using the natural environment to clean metal-rich water from an abandoned mine has been opened by Water Minister Rory Stewart in Cumbria today.
Water Pollution
National Resources Wales clean up following oil spill
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has taken action to tackle oil pollution in a stream in West Wales.