19 Aug 2020
Phil Bremner, Business Synergies ‘As you will have seen from previous Editor’s Comments I have been supportive of the efforts of the Ilkley Clean River Campaign’s to obtain bathing water status for the River Ilkley in West Yorkshire. No UK river has designated bathing water status while Germany has 38, Italy 73 and France 573, just 14% of Britain’s rivers […]
07 Jul 2020
Exclusive in the Guardian “Water firms discharged raw sewage into England’s rivers 200,000 times in 2019” Newspaper highlights how untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, whilst England’s privatised water firms have paid £57bn in dividends since 1991. Water companies in England discharged raw sewage into rivers on more than 200,000 occasions […]
25 Feb 2020
Yorkshire Post: ‘Victory for Ilkley campaigners as Yorkshire Water agree to stop dumping sewage in the River Wharfe A group of Ilkley residents concerned about local water pollution have won a battle to get the River Wharfe cleaned up. Around 70 members of the Ilkley Clean Rivers Group met with representatives of the Environment Agency […]
27 Jun 2019
Sir James Bevan warns companies to improve their pollution performance Environment Agency (EA) Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has warned water companies to improve their pollution performance, saying: “If companies cannot operate without damaging the environment, they will rightly lose their social licence to operate.” Bevan, in a speech at the Water Industry Forum in Birmingham, said the […]
09 Apr 2019
Yorkshire Water has offered a charity donation to resolve an investigation into a sewage pollution event. The Environment Agency has secured £200,000 donation through an Enforcement Undertaking following a pollution incident near Doncaster. Yorkshire Water Services Ltd have paid £200,000 to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust as part of an Enforcement Undertaking (EU). The EU was […]
27 Mar 2019
Environment Agency ‘Severn Trent Water Limited was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on 22 March 2019, for the incident which occurred in November 2013. In addition to the fine, the company was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £50,693 and a victim surcharge of £120. The incident occurred due to a blockage in the company’s […]
19 Feb 2018
Benjamin L. Jones Research Associate, Cardiff University, Leanne Cullen-Unsworth Research Fellow, Cardiff University, Richard K.F. Unsworth Research Officer, Swansea University Disclosure statement Britain’s seagrass is a refuge for numerous species of fish, stabilises sandy beaches, and helps to lock away the carbon which humans produce. The meadows that surround the country’s coast have been called […]
14 Jan 2018
Bob Earll ‘The idea of having biodegradable card instead of plastic for cotton bud sticks has been around for over 20 years. It is a no brainer. So this announcement which forces the obvious change is long overdue. Now for the rest of UK and Europe to follow suit. In the process Governments will get […]
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