Omagh based company PFG Plant Hire Ltd have been fined a total of £33,466 this month, after pleading guilty at Dungannon Crown Court to two breaches of health and safety legislation.
The cas...
The new environment minister Edwin Poots has said he will consider introducing a levy on plastic bags in shops in Northern Ireland. This follows news this month that the Welsh Assembly have announ...
Eight Premier League football clubs have told fans not to bring vuvuzelas to their games when the new season gets under way next month. The controversial horns provided the soundtrack to this summe...
Social networking website Facebook has angered at least 500,000 people with its intention to run a giant new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal powder.
Facebook will...
We have just added the finishing touches to our latest Cedrec website update. As part of our ongoing development we have introduced a new easier to use version of our site. The key changes will:<...
The Environment Agency have launched a full investigation this week after a seven mile stretch of the River Crane in West London became polluted with raw sewage, killing aro...
A Dorset factory worker was accidentally crushed to death by a sweet machine while trying to clear a blockage, an inquest has ruled this month. Czech Republic national Martin Pejril was on a night...
Businesses and the Government need to do more to protect workers from repetitive strain injury (RSI), physiotherapists have said. Official figures from the Health and Safety Ex...
A research study in the British Journal of Cancer predicts that one in 17 UK carpenters born in the 1940s will die of the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma. Researchers calculate that the...
New legislation has been published which describes how battery producers must aid the collection and recycling of waste batteries. The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations
In an attempt to cut energy use, the Government is to install smart meters, which show electricity and gas consumption at a glance, in every home in Britain by 2020.
All of the country's 26...
The newly-elected European Parliament faces a tough challenge in convincing the world to agree on an ambitious climate deal in the midst of an economic recession.
The incoming Parliament is...
The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on new and revised rules for standardised waste permits in advance of any Government announcement following the waste exem...
The Scotch whisky industry has committed itself to an environmental strategy that will see whisky producers cut their use of fossil fuels by 80% over the next 40 years.
The industry claim th...
A local government body is to press ahead with plans for a waste incinerator that produces power, despite a rebuff from Belfast City Council. The council had voted against its land at Belfast Loug...
