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12 March 2023

Anaerobic Digester At Centre Of Wye Court Case Investigated For Planning Breaches

An anaerobic digester plant due to receive tonnes of additional manure from expanding poultry produc…
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Storm overflow
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24 February 2023

Public’s ‘right to know’ about water company pollution could be scrapped

A legal right for the public to know what damage privatised water companies are causing to rivers, l…
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20 January 2023

Water Giant Referred to Information Watchdog for Withholding Environmental Information

Severn Trent Water, the UK’s second largest water company, has been referred to the Information Comm…
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19 January 2023

South-West Water pay £5,800 to anglers in Crediton for polluting river with toxic chemicals

South-West Water Limited has paid £5,800 to compensate a small fly-fishing club whose stretches of t…
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17 December 2022

Authorities leave Teifi exposed to repeat major pollution

The anaerobic digestor facility responsible for a major pollution on the Teifi in 2016 is still oper…
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River Mole
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09 December 2022

Anglers successfully sue River Mole polluter and donate £18,000 settlement to restore the river

A company that polluted nearly 5km of the River Mole, the principal tributary of the River Taw, in D…
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08 December 2022

Fish Legal welcomes Defra and North Eastern IFCA climbdown over bass netting

For over a year, Fish Legal has been pressing Defra and North Eastern Inshore Fisheries Conservation…
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Algal bloom on River Wye
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28 November 2022

Natural Resources Wales accept publicly for the first time that poultry industry is damaging river Wye

The Welsh environmental regulator, Natural Resources Wales (NRW), has for the first time publicly ac…
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25 November 2022

Legal Action Against Llynfi Polluter Hindered by Natural Resources Wales

An angling club whose fisheries were devastated by a major pollution has been unable to move forward…
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11 November 2022

Southern Water drop plan to abstract water from rare chalk stream below level set to protect wild salmon

Southern Water has quietly dropped its application for a drought permit that would have allowed it t…
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