Ulster Farm Bi Products Fined For Pollution For Second Time

11 February 2004
ULSTER FARM BI-PRODUCTS FINED FOR POLLUTION FOR SECOND TIME.
Ulster Farm Bi-Products Ltd one of Northern Ireland’s leading livestock waste disposal companies, has been fined Ł750 plus costs following a pollution offence at their premises in Glenavy, Co. Antrim. This is the company’s second conviction within two months for a pollution offence.

The case was heard earlier this month in Antrim Magistrates Court. The court was told that on 13 February last year, Ulster Farm Bi-Products’s processing plant at 29 Ballyvannon Road, Glenavy, Co. Antrim was found to be discharging pollution from an on-site waste treatment plant. Samples of this discharge were collected by staff from DOE’s Environment and Heritage Service. Subsequent analysis of these samples confirmed that they were very polluting.

The court also heard that the company had a record of allowing polluting discharges to escape from this treatment plant and had recently been fined Ł750 for a similar offence.

Pleading guilty to the offence, counsel for the company accepted that there had been previous problems with the waste treatment plant, but said that on the date in question the company had not been aware of any particular problems.

The company was fined Ł750 plus costs of Ł185.60.
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