Chemical firm fined £310,000 after cyanide release

Sevalco, the American-owned chemical company, has been ordered to pay £310,000 in fines and costs by Bristol Crown Court for six offences after it released up to seventeen times its authorised levels of cyanide into the Severn Estuary. The case was brought by the Environment Agency and follows a hearing at Bristol magistrates court last month when magistrates said they did not have the sentencing powers due to the serious and aggravating features, dishonesty and total lack of management cont... (413 more words)

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