Penalties topping £1.7m were issued to companies across Yorkshire in 2023 for environmental offences.
Tag: Enforcement
Stream polluted by “negligent” Southern Water
2,000 fish die as double pump failure diverts sewage across fields into watercourse.
Hillside Dairy Farms fined over ‘grossly polluted’ Co Tyrone river
A Co Tyrone business has been fined £5,000 for polluting a river. Hillside Dairy Farms Ltd, at Camderry Road in Dromore, was charged with making a polluting discharge to a waterway in October 2022, and of making a discharge of trade or sewage effluent into a waterway between November 2022 and January 2023. The charges […]
Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) offences
EPR can be used for offences related to regulated facilities, including waste operations, water discharge activities and flood risk activities.
Waste firm to pay £68,500 for liquid cyanide leak in Derbyshire
Nottingham Crown Court told how liquid escaped from ruptured tank on lorry into nearby ponds killing fish.
Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the Government cracks down on poor performing companies.
Water company inspections will more than quadruple as the Government cracks down on poor performing companies, under plans announced today (20 February).
Severn Trent Water fined more than £2 million over river sewage pollution
Huge amounts of raw sewage were discharged into the Trent from Strongford Wastewater Treatment Works near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consultation launched to review Environment Agency permit charges
The Environment Agency is launching a consultation on proposed changes to water quality permitting charges.
Construction company fined for polluting Cardiff stream
The construction company was fined £48,000 at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on 9 January 2024 for causing a major discharge of mud and silt from the Beaufort Park site on Lisvane Road into a small tributary of the Nant Glandulais.
River Wye pollution prompts High Court review
The Environment Agency (EA) is being taken to the High Court over claims it has failed to protect the River Wye from agricultural pollution.