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...
High levels of absence in the Northern Ireland Civil Service cost the taxpayer £25.6m during the last financial year. The figures on sickness for 2006/07, in a report by the Northern Ireland Stati...
A family who owned a farm where a Strabane man died after a wall fell on him, made valiant attempts to free him using a tractor, an inquest has heard this month. Limavady Coroner's Court was told t...
Gabriel Kane, trading as Northside Demolition, has been fined a total of £1,526 after pleading guilty at Belfast Magistrates Court on 30 October 2007 to breaches of health and safety legislation....
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) and the Institute of Directors Northern Ireland Division (IoD) have joined forces this month to launch new guid...
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has advised that there is a further relaxation in the trade conditions for live animals to be exported to Britain....
Environment Minister Hilary Benn put the Climate Change Bill before Parliament on Thursday 15 November 2007, making the UK the first country to set itself such targets as a legal requirement rather...
It has emerged that Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (DoE NI) officials were warned three years ago that a private development at the Giant's Causeway coul...
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSE NI) has this month released its Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, covering the period April 2006 to March 20...
McGreevy Construction Limited was fined a total of £22,500 on 11 October 2007 at Belfast Crown Court, after pleading guilty to numerous breaches of health and safety regulations. The court case fol...
