Named: the salmon farms rapped over animal welfare
In the past the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency kept secret the salmon farms it censured on animal welfare grounds. Now it has changed its mind.
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Pollution data permanently lost because of cyber attack
Information on thousands of environmental checks and pollution breaches over 15 months has been permanently lost because of a cyber
Insurers invest £6bn in North Sea oil firms while removing cover on climate frontline
Insurance companies have invested over £6 billion in the biggest firms operating in the North Sea oil and gas industry
‘Illegal’ dumping of dead fish in Hebridean beauty spot set to end
The “illegal” dumping of masses of dead fish in sand dunes on a Hebridean beauty spot is finally set to
Edinburgh investment firms funding new ‘climate destroying’ projects in North Sea
Two Edinburgh-based investment firms are shareholders in an energy company which plans to develop two of the largest untapped oil
Row over plans to reform groups at nuclear sites
New guidelines which campaigners say could benefit communities around nuclear sites have been boycotted by a UK Government nuclear agency.
Experts voice fears over plans for lorry park on Jacobite battlefield
Jacobite experts have warned against a developer’s plans to build a lorry park on the site of a 1715
Gardening firm lobbied UK Government for continued peat-based compost sales
A horticultural firm claiming to lead the way in moving towards alternatives to peat-based compost, lobbied the UK Government to
NatureScot lacked “coherent strategy” to tackle decline of Scotland’s natural sites
A senior figure at NatureScot expressed concern there was no “coherent strategy” at the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency on
Dalwhinnie one of over 1,250 level crossings shut to public
A Scottish walking charity has condemned Network Rail for putting “impenetrable walls” between the public and the countryside by closing
Beyond Cambo: 1bn tonnes of pollution in UK oil and gas pipeline
Twenty-nine new North Sea oil and gas projects, which together could cause nearly one billion tonnes of carbon pollution, are
Tax haven firms own £7.7bn of UK offshore wind power lines
Transmission cables from the 24 offshore wind farms around the UK — which have a combined value of nearly £7.7bn
Scottish government urged to introduce annual sewage leak reports
The Scottish Government has been urged to start reporting on sewage spillages annually after The Ferret revealed that sewage spilled