Monthly Archives: March 2012

A leading engineering and construction company has been fined £250,000 for safety failings after a surveyor was killed by a reversing lorry during work to widen the M25 near Dartford. Richard Caddock, 38, from Bexleyheath, London, was talking on a … Continue reading →

Efforts are under way to control a gas leak from a platform in the Elgin field of the North Sea. Operators Total E&P UK said “a well control problem” occurred on the wellhead platform in the Central Graben area, 240km … Continue reading →

Army drivers are being trained to deliver fuel to petrol stations in case of a possible strike by tanker drivers. The Unite union is balloting on industrial action, saying there have been “unrelenting attacks” on drivers’ terms and conditions. Cabinet … Continue reading →

Well-known west country retailer Trago Mills has been fined £10,000 for polluting waterways near its Cornish outlet, less than six months after being prosecuted for illegally dumping and burning waste at the site. In September 2011, Trago Mills was fined … Continue reading →

Defra has pledged to alter 70 % of legislation scraping 53 environmental regulations and improving 132 more, in response to the government’s red tape challenge review of legislation Just 70 pieces of environmental regulation will be left untouched by Defra’s … Continue reading →

Work to remove fuel from the wreck of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been completed, the Italian authorities have announced. More than 2,000 tonnes of fuel and sewage have been drained from the ship which capsized after hitting … Continue reading →

A large spill of oil happened at a platform off Shetland this week. Twenty-three tonnes of oil was discharged from the Tern platform, 100 miles from Lerwick, on Tuesday. It is not being treated as an ongoing incident as the … Continue reading →

The following has been published in the Budget 2012 on page 81  under the heading ‘Supply-side reform of the economy’ – http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget2012_complete.pdf 2.238 Health and safety – The Government will scrap or improve 84 per cent of Health and Safety … Continue reading →

Bosses of the firm building ­Edinburgh’s scandal-hit trams project were told TWO YEARS ago that they risked dumping toxic waste illegally. It was revealed earlier this month that main contractors Bilfinger Berger dumped 800 tons of ­contaminated soil in ordinary … Continue reading →