ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS
Boater who flouted registration law fined Surrey doughnut company creamed in court
A renowned doughnut company was today (Friday 11 March) ordered to pay more than £12,000 for failing to comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2005 and 2007.
Woking Magistrates’ Court fined Krispy Kreme UK Ltd £8,000 and ordered it to pay compensation of £3,096
A boater caught using his launch on the River Thames without a valid registration has been convicted by magistrates and ordered to pay a total of 327 GBP in fines and costs.
Gavin Harwood, 34, of Gosling Road, Whitton, Middlesex, was fined £80, ordered to pay compensation of £172.26, £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge, a total of £327.26. He pleaded guilty by post before the hearing at Richmond Magistrates’ Court. The offence is contrary to the Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010
Renewables business fined for pollution
More than seven kilometres of a stream were polluted by brown organic waste from a new renewable energy business King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
The company responsible, CH4 Power Ltd was fined a total of £5,000 and ordered to pay full Environment Agency costs of £7,284.
The pollution happened while CH4 Power was in the process of setting up an anaerobic digestion plant at Moat Road Farm in Terrington St Clement for the recycling of organic waste to generate electricity, the court heard.
Hampshire company ordered to pay £14,500 for waste permit breaches
A Hampshire company which failed to obtain the necessary permits for its waste and recycling operation has been ordered to pay a total of £14,515 by magistrates.
Hutchings & Carter Ltd (H&C) was fined £4,000, ordered to pay £10,500 costs and a £15 victim surcharge at Aldershot Magistrates’ Court. It admitted two charges under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007 and 2010.
Thames Water ordered to pay £345,000 after serious sewage spill
A water company which allowed thousands of litres of raw sewage to discharge into gardens, allotments, homes and streams over a ten- week period has been fined £204,000 for 15 environmental offences by Bromley Magistrates’ Court.
In addition Thames Water Utilities Ltd was ordered to pay the Environment Agency’s costs of £139,689.98 and compensation totalling £2,250 to two badly affected local residents
Poultry farm fined over 'plague' of flies
The operator of a Devon poultry unit has been ordered to pay more than £8,000 in fines and costs after it caused an 'explosion' in the local fly population.
The case was brought by the Environment Agency.
On June 29, 2009 two Agency officers visited Worden Farm, Milton Damerel to discuss complaints about flies. They were accompanied by officers from the Environmental Health department of Torridge District Council. The farm is run by W J Watkins & Son Ltd and consists of five buildings housing some 390,000 chickens.
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