ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS
Litterpicker injured falling into well
Three arrests over alleged illegal export of waste tyres to South East Asia
Three men suspected of exporting waste tyres illegally into Vietnam and Hong Kong, have been arrested.
The three men were arrested on suspicion of a number of fraud offences.
Officers raided five sites across England to tackle the dumping of tyres in the United Kingdom and abroad.
A Mansfield District Council worker fell six metres down a dry well while clearing litter from a yard, magistrates heard yesterday.
Three workers were asked to clear litter that had collected between a metal grid and a mesh cover over the well. Two workers removed the grid, while the third stood on the mesh, believing it to be solid underneath, and fell into the well. He dislocated his elbow and cut his head, arms and leg and was off work for six months.
Fine for slurry fish kill
A farming business has been fined after a slurry leak killed hundreds of fish.
On the 10th January at Teesside Magistrates’ Court, C K & D Muir Limited pleaded guilty to one charge of polluting Easington Beck and was fined £8,000.
The company, of Grinkle Park Farm, Loftus, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, also was ordered to pay full prosecution costs of £5,926.82 and a victim surcharge of £15.
150 hours Community Order for Nottingham businessman
Russell Greenhalgh, of Minver Crescent, Nottingham was sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on the 11th January for running two illegal waste transfer stations in Nottingham.
He pleaded guilty to the offences at an earlier court hearing. Greenhalgh, who traded as GIT Skips, ran the sites on Colwick Road, Sneinton and Redfield Rd, Lenton.
Gainsborough firm fined after worker hit by three-tonne steel tank
A steel manufacturing company has been fined after a process tank weighing three tonnes fell on an employee at one of its sites
A process tank was being lifted with an overhead crane, chains and a temporary lifting bracket welded onto the tank. The lifting bracket came off the tank, which then fell onto Mr Baxter.
Boaters ordered to pay £4,344 for flouting licence law
Five boaters caught using their vessels on the River Thames without valid licences have been convicted by magistrates.
John Reid, 46, of Denmark Road, Kingston, was fined £150, ordered to pay compensation of £156, £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge by Kingston Magistrates’ Court. Environment Agency enforcement officers found the boat “Pokerdot” on Barge Walk, Teddington, Kingston, without a valid licence around 1.45pm on June 16 2010.
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