Natural Resources Wales is looking to tackle pollution from abandoned metal mines in a community between Llanidloes and Machynlleth.
Tag: Water Pollution
Yorkshire tops £1.7m Enforcement Undertakings for 2023
Penalties topping £1.7m were issued to companies across Yorkshire in 2023 for environmental offences.
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 […]
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.
East Midlands Airport to stand trial after allegedly polluting River Trent with de-icer
East Midlands International Airport Ltd will stand trial next year accused of polluting a river with de-icer.
Clare Pillman (Chief Executive NRW): Regulating the water industry: Why we will always prioritise the best outcome for Wales’s environment
At the beginning of a new year, I reflect on our work of protecting and conserving the most precious and extraordinary Welsh environment, and how the decisions we make today will leave a legacy for future generations.
Modern life places immense strain on our environment. And nowhere is this more evident than in our rivers – the lifeblood of Wales.
Somerset farm polluted stream after failing to make improvements
The stream was polluted after a farm inspection by the Environment Agency recommended improvements should be made to prevent possible pollution.