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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:26 AM Mar 2016

Molson Coors brewery fined £100,000 for polluting Thames tributary

A brewery has been fined £100,000 for polluting a tributary of the Thames in Hampshire.

Molson Coors Brewery (UK) Ltd was sentenced by Basingstoke Magistrates Court on 17 March after pleaded guilty to two offences: causing an illegal water discharge activity and breaching its environmental permit.

It was fined £100,000 with £31,586 costs for breaching the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010.

The Environment Agency (EA) received reports of fungus in a stream outside a residential development in Alton, Hampshire. EA officers traced the pollution to Molson Coors’ Alton brewery. Trade effluent was seen discharging into a culvert of the Lasham drain, which carries surface water runoff and is a tributary of the River Wey, through cracks and defects in the culvert chamber.

The company had failed to respond to the regular monitoring and visual inspections it was obliged to carry out as a requirement of its environmental permit. This monitoring clearly indicated that there was a serious problem in the Lasham drain.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/molson-coors-brewery-fined-100000-for-polluting-thames-tributary

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Molson Coors brewery fined £100,000 for polluting Thames tributary (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2016 OP
They should be fined for making bad beer. potone Mar 2016 #1

potone

(1,701 posts)
1. They should be fined for making bad beer.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:32 AM
Mar 2016

What are they doing in the UK? They have good beer there.

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