Northern Ireland Water (NIW) is this month being asked to explain how a shortfall in its projected revenues came about. A Stormont Committee is also speaking to officials f...
Thousands of fish have been killed by pollutants along a 12-mile stretch of a river in County Antrim. Anglers are being warned that fish stocks in the Ballymartin River and Six Mile Water may neve...
There have been a number of successful prosecutions this month for breaches of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1997/2778.
In the first cas...
Environment Minister Arlene Foster has told Northern Ireland businessmen that they have an important role to play in meeting three big challenges for waste management. Speaking at the Confederatio...
Environment Minister Arlene Foster this month welcomed the publication of the UK Government's response to the consultation on the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). The scheme, which will legally...
JCB have this month been fined more than £450,000 over the death of two employees in "preventable" circumstances.
In the first case, JCB Earthmovers Limited were fined £200,000 at Stafford...
Oil giants Shell have been fined a total of £266,681 after admitting blame for an accident in which 20 tonnes of explosive gas was released into the air. Isobutane was mixed with toxic hydrogen flu...
Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects have been fined a total of £255,859 this month following the death of a motorcyclist at one of its roadworks sites in 2005.
The man died when he collided wit...
Fire extinguishers may be removed from blocks of flats across Britain after they were this month deemed dangerous by buildings risk assessors at two apartment blocks on the South Coast. A review o...
With the latest health and safety figures showing that 77 workers were fatally injured in the UK construction industry during 2006/07, the sector should be more aware than most of the upcoming
Health and safety experts have begun their inspection of a building in Belfast which collapsed this month, injuring six people. Eyewitnesses said a floor gave way under the weight of concrete whic...
An investigation has been launched this month following the death of a 52 year-old construction worker on a building site in Belfast. The man is understood to have died after he was struck by a rev...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) have alerted companies of a health and safety campaign which began on 3 March 2008. The campaign focuses on wo...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) have agreed that the suspension of imports of breeding cattle and sheep from Bluetongue restricted zones will c...
Steelmaker Corus has been fined £250,000 and told to pay costs of £43,000 after the death of a worker at its Trostre plant in Llanelli. The company pleaded guilty to two breaches of health and safe...
