Speaking during an Assembly Environment Committee meeting this month, the SDLP's John Dallat has said that there are no figures available for the collection of fines for illegal waste in Northern I...
A Leeds bottle manufacturer was this month fined a total of £13,173 by Leeds Magistrates' Court after a worker sustained serious injuries when he plunged two metres onto a concrete floor. Allied G...
There has been a fatal accident this month at a sewage treatment works near Ballymena. The victim, who is believed to be in his 40s, died in the incident at the Northern Ireland Water Facility on...
Two men who allowed their land in Northern Ireland to be used to dump illegal waste from the Republic have been hit with hard penalties under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Under the Act, Turloug...
The trial of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, the first company charged under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, has been adjourned until October 201...
Troubled global steelmaker Corus has been fined £100,000 after an overloaded mobile crane overturned.
On 4 September 2008, a crane operator was instructed to use a mobile crane to load steel...
A Wales construction company has been fined after one of its employees had his head crushed at a site in Gloucestershire. Macob Administration Limited, based in Bridgend, was charged by the
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has this month announced that he is to make an additional £300,000 in funding available to environment and conservation groups. A proportion of th...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors have been making unannounced visits to construction sites across the UK in an initiative to underline the importance of having s...
A farmer and haulage contractor of Crevenagh Road, Omagh was fined a total of £5,000 at Omagh Crown Court on 11 October 2007 for a series of pollution offences.
A major airport services company has been fined £90,000 after a man was crushed to death at Heathrow Airport in 2008. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Avian...
Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay £42,500 costs after one of its drivers was crushed to death. Colin Smith was standing between a tractor and a trailer at the Heathrow Worldwide...
Labour’s climate and energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has gone on the rampage and accused his political rivals of “ducking” difficult environmental issues.
Despite similar-sounding manifestos...
Organics recycling company TEG Environmental has closed its in-vessel composting operation at Hutton, after a prosecution was brought against it by the Environment Agency ov...
Northern Ireland Environment Minister Edwin Poots has outlined proposals for new legislation dealing with waste management and contaminated land.
Speaking before the second stage debate on t...
