Clough man fined for unauthorised waste offence

A Clough man was fined £750 plus £49 court costs at Coleraine Magistrates’ court today for the unauthorised disposal of controlled waste.
~ Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Mr Thomas Campbell (50) of Dowgry Road Clough Ballymena pleaded guilty to the unauthorised keeping of controlled waste at a site at Boyds Quarry, Boyds Road Cloughmills.

Officers from Northern Ireland Environment Agency investigated the site, owned by Mr. Campbell, in January 2010, where a substantial quantity of controlled waste in the form of construction and demolition waste and clay was deposited.

Notes to editors:

1. Mr Campbell pleaded guilty and was charged under the following Article of the Waste and Contaminated Land Order (Northern Ireland) 1997: Article 4(1)(b), keeping, treating or disposing of waste without a waste management licence.
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