A County Fermanagh farmer, Philip Johnston, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment and fined £10,000 after being convicted of breaching the Waste and Contaminated Land Order (Northern Irel...
Government owned company Northern Ireland Water has described the reports that they have spent £16 million in six months on consultancy fees as "misleading." The company wa...
Two of Northern Ireland's biggest poultry producers have announced plans to build a power station which will produce electricity from chicken litter. Moy Park and O'Kane's chickens produce 250,000...
Air quality in Northern Ireland is continuing to improve, according to the latest data. The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI), together with local...
It has been revealed this month that Antrim Residents are once again the biggest waste recyclers in Northern Ireland. According to data collected for Environment Minister Arlene Foster, Antrim Bor...
The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have this month announced that a single environmental permit will be introduced under the Environmental Per...
A compromise deal for a new international climate change agenda was recently agreed at the UN summit in Bali. Ministers from around 180 countries agreed an agenda for the agreement, which will rep...
A new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK has been given formal backing by the Government. Business Secretary John Hutton told MPs they would provide a, "Safe and affordable way of secu...
The Environment Agency has celebrated a 60% fall in the amount of hazardous waste going to landfill, with further new enforcement policies on the horizon. Recent waste prov...
Scotland's environmental watchdog has just published a consultation on their five year climate change strategy. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has identi...
Supermarket giant ASDA has been fined £225,000 and ordered to pay £42,000 costs after admitting health and safety breaches over the death of a customer who was killed at its store in Cardiff Bay. T...
A Port Talbot company, Vizor Tempered Glass, has been fined £50,000 and ordered to pay costs of £11,171, after a worker fell into a skip of glass. The glassmaker pleaded guilty to breaching the
A developer and a contractor from North London have been ordered to pay £275,000 after a Polish construction worker was left permanently disabled after a concrete slab fell on him. The incident to...
A firm have been ordered to pay a total of £35,504 after an unsafe floor collapsed and trapped 21 employers - during a health and safety meeting! Nobody was seriously hurt, but two workers suffere...
A village pantomime troupe has been forced to rewrite their script to comply with health and safety rules, which have led to police registering two plastic cutlasses and a toy gun. Captain Hook ha...
