Report serious illegal waste dumping Natural Resources wales Investegate? These have a greater potential harm to human health and damage the environment. Report large-scale waste dumping to us. Local authorities are responsible for dealing with most types of small scale fly-tipping on publicly owned land? An organic liquid waste recycling company has been fined £41,310.00…
And following a successful two-year programme the groundbreaking Tech Tyfu initiative – delivered by not-for-profit organisation Menter Môn – is set to continue until Summer 2024 via Welsh Government’s Backing Local Firms Fund. Church Village, Pontypridd. The Tech Tyfu Scale-Up project aimed to provide vertical farming equipment and business support to growers across the country,…
NRW has downgraded Wales’s largest water company, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, to a two-star (requires improvement) rating following a further decline in environmental performance outlined in its annual review. Following a disappointing performance in 2021, the report reveals that pollution incidents rose by 7% in 2022, with those having a high or significant impact rising…
It has been revealed that Cardiff Council are looking into buying diesel recycling trucks, a move that is hypocritical of its net zero objectives. Commenting on the news, Welsh Conservative Shadow Climate Change Minister, Janet Finch Saunders MS said: Welsh Labour Climate hypocrisy. “Labour Cardiff Council has been exposed for their climate hypocrisy. Despite proclaiming…
Taken from Philip Thomas who publishes the Facebook pages relating to Clear South Wales Coal Tips, there are a number of videos on the site relating to coal tips just use the link. A view from the middle of the high-risk tips in #Ynyshir, #RhonddaFach, looking down to the valley floor and #YnyshirCommunitySchool. A stream…
A man in Monmouthshire has been sentenced to a 12-month community order with 200 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay Natural Resources Wales (NRW) full costs of £13,915.09, after being found guilty of three waste-related charges at Newport Magistrates Court earlier today (Tuesday 27 June) Mr Philip Johns was found guilty of operating…
A new charging scheme for some of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) permitting services will be implemented from 1 July 2023, the environment body confirmed today (23 June 2023) NRW consulted on its plans to update the charges for some of its permits and licences in October last year. It proposed to make changes to a…
The First Minister of Wales has visited the Tylorstown Landslip site to see the excellent progress made since Phase Four of the remediation plan started in April. The Council has also provided a full update on the ongoing works. Mark Drakeford MS visited the works site on the Llanwonno hillside on Thursday, June 22. He…
The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal the decision in Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 80, which overturned lower court rulings that found diminution in value in Japanese knotweed cases was irrecoverable economic loss and ordered the council to pay damages to a property owner. The property owner in the case purchased…
In the news today it was revealed Swansea University are studying the health risks that come from wildfires, of which there has already been 494 in Wales this year. Commenting on the news, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Janet Finch Saunders MS said: “I welcome the study being undertaken, and progress being made…
