A Belfast skip hire company has been fined a total of £17,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of waste management legislation. The Department of the Environment for Northern...
The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical pseudo-religion." In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said h...
The Government has committed the UK to a greenhouse gas emissions cut of 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 in a bid to tackle climate change.
Climate Change and Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband said t...
Green groups have welcomed a Government reshuffle that created a department for energy and climate change. The department, headed by Ed Miliband, is charged with establishi...
The coffee chain, Starbucks, has angered environmental groups, after it was revealed that it had a policy of keeping a tap running non-stop at all its 10,000 outlets worldwide, wasting 23.4 million...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) have this month revealed the action it has taken to tackle high risk pollution threats on the Mallusk Industrial Estate. Work...
Northern Ireland's renewable electricity consumption has grown by 60% since 2005. Speaking at the Irish Wind Energy Association's (IWEA) Autumn Conference in Belfast, Energy Minister Arlene Foster...
Executives and managers could face two year jail terms for health and safety breaches under legislation just passed by Parliament. The Health and Safety Offences Act 2008 r...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that some 4,000 people a year in the UK are dying from the effects of asbestos.
Although a quarter of the victims...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have warned that accident numbers may increase over the course of the year.
New preliminary statistics show that in the period,...
A world famous jam-maker has been fined a total of £6,870 after a worker's finger was sliced off by a marmalade machine. Snezana Pavlenkova was trying to unblock an orange peel shredder at Wilkin...
An Armagh company, Coyle Fabrications Ltd, has been fined £15,000 plus £1,026 costs after an employee was fatally injured.
The equivalent of £1,250 per day has been paid out by the Northern Ireland Civil Service over the last five years in relation to workplace injuries. A BBC report has revealed a total of £2.3 milli...
A judge has this month warned that the courts would not tolerate firms breaching health and safety rules after Tulip Limited was forced to pay more than £286,000 in fines and costs after incidents...
Two railway maintenance companies have each been fined £240,000 after admitting offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, following the fatal crushing of a...
