ENVIRONMENT AGENCY PROSECUTIONS
£1,000 reward for information on Conwy poachers
A reward of up to £1,000 is being offered for information about poachers on one of North Wales’ most important rivers.
Launching the campaign, Environment Agency Wales appealed for people to contact Crimestoppers anonymously if they have any information about people who are engaged in poaching on the Conwy or its tributaries.
London restaurant company served with fine for packaging offences
A London-based restaurant company was ordered to pay more than £24,000 for failing to comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997, 2005 and 2007.
City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court fined Gioma UK Ltd £13,500 and ordered it to pay compensation of £8,408, representing the registration fees.
Oil spill costs firm over £17,500
On Thursday 17 November 2010 Mark Group Limited of Leicester pleaded guilty at Worcester Magistrates Court to polluting the Barbourne Brook at Gheluvelt Park, Worcester.
The charges were brought by the Environment Agency for water pollution under the Water Resources Act. The company was fined a total of £12,000 and ordered to pay costs of £5,563.53 plus a £15 victim surcharge.
Mark Group Limited are a home insulation company who in November 2008 were closing down their depot at Northbrook Close in Barbourne.
Birmingham man ordered to pay over £40,000 for waste crimes
Local businessman runs illegal waste sites in Handsworth, Winson Green and Smethwick Ali Raza Baig, of Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, was sentenced on the 19th November at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court after having previously pleaded guilty to three offences. The charges concerned the operation of un-permitted waste sites around the city, where significant amounts of waste had been dumped and stored.
Farmer’s crops ruined by sewage
Anglian Water has been fined a total of 22,000GBP and ordered to pay full costs of 4,489GBP after a rising main burst twice in seven months.
Sewage from the main, running through Hall Farm in Shipdham ruined crops both times in August 2009 and March 2010 and polluted the River Blackwater, a tributary of the River Yare, Swaffham Magistrates’ Court heard.
Miss Claire Bentley, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, told the court that there had been three previous incidents of the main bursting at the site leading to surrounding land being saturated with sewage.
Fishermen caught on camera using illegal net on River Parrett
Two Bridgwater men have been banned from fishing for elvers for three years for using an illegal flow net to boost their catch.
Darren Britton and Martin Parr were also ordered to pay £1,860 each in fines and costs and had their equipment confiscated. The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
Agency bailiffs were on a routine patrol near the Westonzoyland Pumping Station on the River Parrett on May 14, 2010 when they discovered a large flow net, two aluminium poles and blue rope hidden in undergrowth on a flood defence bank.
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