Businesses and individuals who breached environmental regulation in 2023 have been named and shamed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
Category: In Court
Somerset cheesemaker fined £20,000 for third pollution offence
Somerset cheese making company, Alvis Brothers Ltd, who make Lye Cross Farm cheeses, has been ordered to pay fines and costs of over £23,700 for a third case of causing pollution from their farm, near Bristol.
Yorkshire Water pays record £1million civil sanction
Yorkshire Water has paid a record £1million to charities after polluting a Harrogate watercourse, following an investigation by the Environment Agency.
Man jailed for storage of asbestos without a permit
A man has been jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to the storage of asbestos without a permit, following an investigation by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
Significant fine for water company following hazardous chemical leak
Severn Trent Water has been fined £350,000 for polluting the River Amber in an incident that left tens of thousands of fish dead.
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.
OMEX Agriculture Ltd to pay £510,190 for wiping out over 135,000 fish
A faulty pipe leaked deadly fertiliser into River Witham, stretching 46km in ‘one of the largest environmental incidents ever recorded in Lincolnshire’.
Anglian Water pays £154,000 fine after sewage discharged into the River Til in Bedfordshire
One of the UK’s biggest water companies has been hit with a £150,000 fine after sewage was released into a river, in the first civil sanction of its kind in England. In 2018 contractors unblocked a sewer in Yielden in Bedfordshire which caused a small rural water recycling Centre to become overwhelmed and resulted in […]
Farming business fined after land spreading pollutes stream
A County Durham company and its farm manager have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £24,000 in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
Rivers polluted by “reckless” Thames Water, fined £3.33m after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded river
Judge – Thames Water “deliberately misled” the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died. Thames Water has been fined £3.33m after millions of litres of raw sewage flooded 2 rivers near Gatwick. Judge Christine Laing KC DL told Lewes crown court Thames Water deliberately […]