Case study: How one utility set up a specialist jetting unit
A £1.2m Yorkshire Water project to establish an in-house Operational Jetting Team is the first of its kind for the utility company. The new...
South West Water fined for sewage spill near shellfish beds
South West Water has been ordered to pay £205,000 in fines and costs for discharging sewage into the Fal estuary in Cornwall. The case...
Sponge soaks up and releases spilled oil
A new foam material developed at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois appears to offer a major advance in the effort to clean up oil...
Record-breaking fine for Thames pollution incident
Thames Water was handed a record-breaking £20.3 million fine on 22 March – the largest ever penalty for a water utility - for releasing...
Leaked BP report sparks safety fears
A litany of failures in the way BP manages critical safety information may be increasing the risk of accidents at the oil giant’s plants...
Slurry spill results in £8,000 fine for farmer in Scotland
A renfrewshire farm partnership received a £8,000 fine from SEPA on 7 December, for pollution of the Locher Water on 18 March 2016. The...
Emergency shower keeps hazardous materials confined and adapts to climate
Spill containment specialist Empteezy launched a "ground-breaking new emergency shower" at the ADIPEC oil and gas exhibition and conference in Abu Dhabi on 7...
Tap test gives faster way to confirm safety of oil and gas pipelines
A simple vibration test can help oil and gas companies prevent pipeline spills in a way that is faster and cheaper than conventional methods,...
WWEM 2016 lab conference focuses on priority pollutants
Laboratory analysts from around the world will congregate in Telford (UK) on 2nd and 3rd November to focus on the testing, monitoring and analysis...
EA document appraises water firms’ environmental performance in 2015
The EA has released its 2015 summary of water and sewage companies’ environmental performance, offering a rundown of firms’ adherence to criteria such as...
Severn Trent Water fined £426,000 for repeated raw sewage leaks in to the Shire...
Pollution incidents occurred on three separate occasions
On 21 July 2016, at Nottingham Crown Court, Severn Trent Water Limited was fined £426,000, ordered to pay...
United Utilities and contractors fined almost £1m for polluting brook with corrosive bleach
United Utilities Water Limited (UU) has been fined £600,000 and its contractor, KMI Plus* £333,000 at Bolton Crown Court on Friday 24...
Lining system safeguards against ‘future fuels’ leaks
Asset resilience specialist Adler & Allan has added TankTechnic Lining Systems to its portfolio of tank services. Providing targeted corrosion prevention for tanks that...
Award for one-of-a-kind filter that removes BTEX components from surface water
OIL and environmental services provider Adler & Allan won the Manufacturer/Service Provider category at UKSpill's first ever Awards Evening on 26 April, picking up...
Alliance of firms to undertake Wales’ largest ever coastal investigation work
The Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) Capital Delivery Alliance comprising Mott MacDonald Bentley and joint ventures between Morgan Sindall/Arup and Skanska/Arcadis is undertaking the...
‘Pillow’ cleans up contaminants within minutes, says supplier
Seddons Plant & Engineers has launched a 'Polymer Pillow' which can remove contaminants such as oil, petrol and diesel from polluted water within minutes....
Sponges offer hope for affordable spill handling
RESEARCHERS at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova have published a paper demonstrating that simple sponges made from polyurethane foam can be more...
Waste sites warned “there’s no smoke without fire water”
WASTE handling and recycling sites, currently under obligation to re-assess their fire accident plans, could be failing to plan for the impact of millions...
Floating-point arithmetic: Salvaging the Costa Concordia
Envirotec listened in on a presentation by Matthew Callan of Ardent Marine Services, at an event held by IESIS in January 2016, explaining how...
Fracking: The science, the risks and the regulations
Barnaby Harding, principal hydrogeologist at environmental consultancy ESI, explores the real science behind fracking, the risks to water resources it presents, and how these...
