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Car breaker fined for illegal site

Car breaker and exporter Adel Elkabir has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £3,996 by Deputy District Judge Roscoe today for running an illegal site in Fengate, Peterborough. Elkabir started operating from the site without an Environmental Permit despite advice from the Environment Agency, which brought the prosecution. The court heard the permit, which was approved ...

Jul. 2, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Environmental permit issued for Hemerdon mine in Devon.

The Environment Agency has issued an environmental permit to Wolf Minerals UK Ltd to operate a mining waste facility at Hemerdon in Devon. This decision follows careful and thorough consideration of the permit application. The Agency has consulted widely and sought comments from many organisations including Public Health England, Natural England, Devon County Council, South Hams District ...

Dec. 13, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Environment agency ask public over new Cardiff energy-from-waste facility

Environment Agency Wales is seeking public opinion after receiving an environmental permit application for a new energy-from-waste facility proposed by Viridor Waste Management. Viridor has applied to build the waste facility in Trident Park, Cardiff as part of the south-east Wales Project Green initiative. Environment Agency Wales area manager for South-East Wales Cliff Moyce said: “We are ...

May 13, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

New solution to environmental permitting financial provisions

As an alternative to keeping money in bonds or a cash account, FillSecure offers a more lucrative way to meet the financial provision obligations of the Environmental Permitting Regulations.In response to the Environmental Permitting (EP) Regulations, introduced in April, a new financial product has been launched. Insurance brokers, Tysers, and financial advisers, Kynaston-Carnoustie, have come ...

Dec. 15, 2008

By Churngold Remediation Limited

Buckinghamshire man fined for breaching permit of vehicle scrapping business

A Buckinghamshire scrap car dealer who put the environment at risk has been ordered to pay £9,379 after a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Reginald Hyde, who operates the facility on land at Cotherne, Oxford Road, Oakley, Bucks, appeared before Aylesbury Magistrates’ Court on Monday 2 September 2013. Mr Hyde pleaded guilty to one offence of breaching the terms of an ...

Sep. 4, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Public event to discuss future disposal of waste at Drigg

The Environment Agency is holding a public event on Thursday (12th December) to discuss the future disposal of waste at the Low Level Waste repository near Drigg. The event forms part of a three month consultation on an application to vary the environmental permit at the site. If granted, this would allow the company that operates the repository to dispose of further waste into proposed new ...

Dec. 11, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Environment Agency consults on variation to environmental permit

The Environment Agency in the South West is to launch a consultation on an Environmental Permit application they have received from Eco Sustainable Solutions in Bournemouth for a (minor) variation to operations on their site near Bournemouth Airport. The application is to enable them to add a street sweepings plant to their site so they can process road sweepings and gully washings. Dorset ...

Nov. 7, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Yanbu Registered EIA Consultants

WKC is pleased to announce their successful registration with the Royal Commission for Yanbu (RCY) as an International Consultant to perform EIA and related services within Yanbu Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The recent registration with RCY is another great achievement for WKC, recognising our already significant track record of performing environmental services both internationally ...

Nov. 8, 2015

By WKC Group

Sheffield recycling firm fined £9,000 for handling excessive amounts of waste

A Sheffield-based recycling centre and two of its senior officers have been fined £9,000 and received community orders totalling 240 hours for handling excessive amounts of waste at their premises, in breach of their environmental permit. M White Ltd, of Wood Lane, Stannington, Sheffield, was fined £9,000 on Tuesday 13 August at Sheffield Magistrates Court and ordered to pay costs of ...

Aug. 14, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Consent granted for Balcombe conventional appraisal well

The target prospect is oil located in micrite, a type of limestone within the Kimmeridge shale formation. DECC and the Health and Safety Executive have scrutinised Cuadrilla’s plans and the company has received the environmental permits required for this type of conventional drilling from the Environment Agency. The company does not have consent to use hydraulic fracturing. If Cuadrilla ...

Jul. 25, 2013

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Environment Agency grants waste recovery park a permit

The Environment Agency has granted an environmental permit to AmeyCespa Limited to operate a waste recovery and gasification facility at Milton Keynes. The Agency is satisfied that the proposed facility will not harm the health of local people or the environment. Some minor changes have been made as a result of comments during the draft permit consultation, which closed on 30 October 2013. ...

Nov. 13, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

New environmental permits will cut UK red tape, save money

New Environmental Permitting Regulations have come into force in England and Wales, reducing red tape whilst protecting the environment and human health. Environmental permits are required for industrial and waste activities which could harm human health or the environment unless they are controlled. The new system means businesses will find it simpler and less costly to be environmentally ...

Apr. 9, 2008

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Amendment to permitting regulations 2014

Defra has confirmed that the government is to go ahead with suggested amendments to the environmental permitting regime, which is intended to ease the regulatory burden on businesses in the sector. Plans outlining proposed changes to the Waste Transfer Note (WTN) system were published on the 9th of December. Amongst many of the amendments to environmental laws intended to ease the burden of ...

Dec. 23, 2013

By GPT Waste Management Ltd

UK undertakes consultation on revised waste exemptions from environmental permitting

The objective behind the review is to provide a more risk-based and proportionate approach to the regulation of waste disposal and recovery operations, thus complementing the new environmental permitting regime. Defra is consulting on a number of measures intended to increase the use of exemptions for a wide variety of low-risk activities (including the majority of those in operation under an ...

Aug. 6, 2008

By British Safety Council

Leicester man imprisoned for illegal waste activity at his home

On 23 Sep 13, Leslie Collins of Whitwick, Leics was sentenced to 34 months imprisonment at Leicester Crown Court. Charges related to operating an illegal waste facility, breech of ASBO and criminal damage. The 68 year old was given 16 months imprisonment for breaching environmental legislation and a further 18 months to run consecutively for breaching his ASBO and criminal damage. The charges ...

Sep. 24, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Environment Agency to publish draft environmental permit for proposed mining waste facility in Devon

The Environment Agency will publish a draft environmental permit for a proposed mining waste facility at Hemerdon, Devon, on Monday, 11 November. The application for an environmental permit was made by Wolf Minerals UK Limited. The Environment Agency is publishing the draft permit along with a draft decision document because it is satisfied that the proposed facility could be constructed and ...

Nov. 14, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

BMRA condemns Defra`s moves to increase site licensing

The British Metals Recycling Association has condemned the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs proposals that could require a third of the UK’s metal recyclers to apply for environmental permits, if they want to stay in business. Environment Minister Jane Kennedy revealed the potential impact of proposals contained in Defra and the Environment Agency’s review of exemptions when ...

Mar. 16, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Consultation begins on mining waste permit at Hemerdon

The Environment Agency is seeking views from the local community and interested groups following the application for environmental permits from mining company Wolf Minerals (UK) Limited for Hemerdon Mine, Devon. The company has applied to carry out a mining waste operation at their site near Plympton, which is one of the largest tungsten reserves in the world. The Agency has also received an ...

Jun. 20, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Fine for persistent waste offender

Skips loaded with waste were stored on a Bedford Farm without the owner’s permission. The farm owners had initially allowed Kenneth Joseph Murphy to park his skip lorry at the site and then agreed to allow him to store empty skips there but had never agreed to allow him to bring in full ones. Bedford and Mid Beds Magistrates’ Court was told that the waste, which was mainly household ...

Oct. 10, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

£14,000 fine for company operating illegal waste facility

Today, 22 November 2013, Easy Skip Hire Ltd of Doncaster was sentenced at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court to one charge relating to operating a waste transfer facility without an Environmental Permit. The company pleaded guilty at an earlier court hearing. The company was fined £14,000, ordered to pay £3,131.87 in costs, along with a £120 victim surcharge. The charge was ...

Nov. 22, 2013

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

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