Employer fined and ordered to pay clean up costs for river pollution

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• Environment Agency

A Tredegar company has had to pay over £30,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the Nant y Bwch and River Sirhowy in June 2007, which killed 13,000 fish, aquatic insects and a kingfisher.

After polluting both rivers with glycerine and fatty acids, Bio Tech Oils UK Ltd of Tafarnaubach Industrial Estate, Tredegar were; fined £19,000 with costs of £1,861. They were also ordered to pay the £10,000 costs of the clean-up operation, by Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court... (219 more words)

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