Coalisland car breaker fined £3,000 for waste offences

A Co Tyrone man was today fined a total of £3,000 plus £31 court costs at Dungannon Magistrates’ Court for four breaches of waste management legislation.

Mr Barry McKeever (43) of Ballynakilly Road, Coalisland, pleaded guilty to the charges brought under The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and was fined £750 on each charge.

On 18 June 2009 officials from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) investigated a site at Ballynakilly Road, Coalisland, owned by Mr McKeever, where a substantial quantity of controlled wastes in the form of end of life vehicles and parts of end of life vehicles was deposited. Approximately 500 End of Life Vehicles were noted on site.

Officials visited the site again on 2 September 2009 and found the controlled waste still on site. The site did not have a waste management licence or a licence to operate as an authorised treatment facility for end of life vehicles.

Notes to editors:

1. End of Life Vehicles are defined as vehicles that are categorized as waste. Waste is defined as anything that you discard, intend to discard or are required to discard.
2. Mr McKeever was charged for two offences under Article 4(1)a and two offences under Article 4(1)b of the Order. The charges related to: the treating, keeping and disposal of controlled waste, or knowingly causing or knowingly permitting controlled waste to be treated, kept or disposed of in or on any land except under and in accordance with a waste management licence.
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