The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has issued a consultation on proposals to introduce a "more effective" approach to enforcing environmental reg...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has met with the country's new environment minister, Edwin Poots, to brief him on work that it claims needs to be done in waste management.
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Farmer Roy Kelso has been fined a total of £17,500 after pleading guilty at Dungannon Crown Court to two breaches of Health and Safety Legislation. The case was brought by the ...
Balcas Timber Ltd have appeared before Fermanagh Magistrates Court on a number of health and safety related charges.
The company who are based at Laragh, Enniskillen were represented by Patr...
It has been announced that the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Shattered Lives - Ladder Exchange Initiative 2009 will run from 1 September until 31 December 2009.
An investigation has been launched into the collapse of a crane at a Carrickfergus construction site.
The machine, being used in an upgrade of drainage infrastructure in the Joymount/Scotch...
The UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has said time is running short to agree a new treaty on global warming amid deep di...
Consumers will have to pay more for their batteries because of the new battery regulations, an industry expert has suggested. Recycling firm WasteCare chief executive Peter Hunt claims that manufa...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has been fined £2,000 for discharging untreated sewage into Belfast Lough, near Ballyholme Beach in Bangor. The offence happened in August 2007...
Energy Minister Arlene Foster is seeking views on the draft Bioenergy Action Plan, which sets out how Northern Ireland can capitalise on natural energy resources. Bioenergy is an organic based res...
The global community is currently engaged in negotiations to agree a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
US President Barack Obama challenged world leaders at last month'...
Inspectors in the port of Felixstowe are currently examining 91 containers of rubbish that was allegedly illegally exported to Brazil by two Swindon-based firms. In July, Brazilian authorities accu...
Health and Safety Works NI, in partnership with ConstructionSkills in Northern Ireland and the Federation of Master Builders are holding a health and safety workshop designed specifically for the w...
A man was taken to hospital this month after a floor collapsed at a property in South Belfast.
The incident happened in the Fitzroy area, at a property which is currently undergoing construc...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published a consultation inviting views on the structure and content of draft environmental permitting gui...
