13 Oct 2020

BBC ‘Nearly 50,000 salmon escaped from storm-damaged fish farm Salmon that escaped from a fish farm near Campbeltown during Storm Ellen have now been found in three rivers in Cumbria in England. Almost 50,000 fish escaped when cages at the North Carradale farm broke free from their anchors in August. Many have been found in local waters […]

07 Oct 2020

Pollution from farming increases massively from a planned surge dairy farming plan. Guardian ‘Ireland is experiencing a water pollution crisis. A lack of investment in managing sewage is part of the story: half of urban wastewater treatment plants don’t meet minimum EU standards, while raw sewage from 77,000 people across Ireland flows into the environment every day. […]

07 Oct 2020

Pollution from farming increases massively from a planned surge dairy farming plan. Guardian ‘Ireland is experiencing a water pollution crisis. A lack of investment in managing sewage is part of the story: half of urban wastewater treatment plants don’t meet minimum EU standards, while raw sewage from 77,000 people across Ireland flows into the environment every day. […]

02 Sep 2020

Protecting Our Local Rivers from Pollution by Industrial Farming The pollution of the Wye this summer by farms have been widely reported on by national and local media. Now concerned residents of the Golden Valley in Herefordshire are crowdfunding to take on Herefordshire County Council On 3 June 2020, Herefordshire County Council gave its approval to a planning application […]

16 Jun 2020

‘Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland’s 2016 Petition to the Scottish Parliament led to the 2018 ECCLR and REC Committee inquiries into salmon farming. The REC Committee identified that “the ‘status quo’ in terms of regulation and enforcement of the fish farming industry is not acceptable”. In response, the Scottish Government tasked the Salmon Interactions Working […]

16 Apr 2020

Low Carbon Farming unveils plans to deploy wastewater-heated greenhouses nationwide Business Green ‘Enormous greenhouses the size of the O2 Arena could allow the UK to become self-sufficient in tomatoes and cucumbers, according to developer Low Carbon Farming More than 40 giant wastewater-heated greenhouses could help curb the UK’s reliance on imported vegetables and significantly shrink […]

02 Nov 2019

From the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland by Allen P Sragow    19th August 2019 A US attorney warns that Scotland has 18 months to legislate new marine mammal protection standards or find the largest export market for Scottish salmon closed for business United States Marine Mammal Protection Act 1972 (“MMPA”) prohibits injuring marine […]

22 Oct 2019

Catchment Sensitive Farming report highlights wide range of successful actions. Eight in 10 farmers receiving advice from the government’s Catchment Sensitive Farming service have seen improvements in water quality on their land or benefited financially, a new report published today (14 October) shows. Nearly 20,000 farms – equivalent to 34 per cent of England’s total […]