The construction industry has come under fire from union leaders for its "complete failure" to act to prevent accidents and avoidable deaths at work. A lack of accountability is costing workers th...
Producers have been forced to scrap a scene planed for the next Batman film after realising just how polluted Hong Kong's harbour has become. In the scene axed from "The Dark Knight", Batman was su...
Northern Ireland Water (NIW) opened a modern Waste water Treatment Works in Portrush last month as part of a £45 million North Coast Scheme. The new works are designed to c...
A Tyrone farmer who illegally disposed of household and commercial waste on his land has been ordered to pay a £252,252 Compensation Order or face five years in prison. The Order was obtained last...
Fermanagh District Council has been fined almost £21,000 for polluting a waterway near one of its landfill sites. The stream near the Glassmullagh site in Enniskillen flows into a lough which the...
A father and son from County Armagh were fined a total of £18,500 for illegal waste offences at Dungannon Magistrates Court this month. Thomas Curran and his son James Curran were found guilty of...
Silt run-off during the construction of a wind farm is believed to be responsible for the wiping out of valuable vegetation and a massive decrease in wild Brown Trout fish stocks in one of Tyrone's...
Environment Minister Arlene Foster faces the toughest test of her tenure so far following the news that an official complaint against her and the Department of the Environment f...
A Blackpool publican who became the first landlord in England to be prosecuted for allowing people to smoke in a bar has now lost his alcohol licence. Hugh 'Hamish' Howitt was fined £500 for offen...
Another worker has been killed whilst working at the Corus steel plant in Port Talbot. The police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have both launched investigations...
The beer and wine importer, Cobra Beer, has been fined £25,800 for failing to recover and recycle over 1,000 tonnes of packaging waste. It failed to comply with the then current Producer Responsibi...
A new study published by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that the UK is the "dustbin of Europe". The research has shown that the UK dumps more household waste into landfill tha...
In more positive waste news this month, figures released by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have suggested that Scotland has almost reached its 2008 recycl...
The company behind plans to scrap the so-called US "ghost-ships" on Teesside has been fined a total of £26,522 for improperly disposing of asbestos. Able UK admitted to failing to cover or dampen...
Plans to build the world's biggest biomass power station fuelled by wood chips have been given the go-ahead by the UK Government. The £400 million plant in Port Talbot will have the capacity to po...
