Southern Water has been fined £500,000 after untreated sewage polluted watercourses in Whistable and Herne Bay. The pollution left local wildlife dead, after there were problems at a Southern Water pumping station. An Environment Agency investigation found that the...
Businesses have reacted angrily after swimmers were warned against going into the sea at nine beaches around Thanet following pumping station discharges. Thanet Council has advised people not to enter the sea between Walpole Bay and Dumpton Gap. Hotel owner...
Dozens of beaches around England could fail new stricter sewage standards for water quality, including Blackpool, Clacton, Morecambe and Margate. While 90% of the nation's beaches meet cleanliness standards, 46 suffer from sewer overflows, manure running off from farms and...
Up to 150,000 litres of fuel leaked into farmland in Marlborough after thieves drilled through a major Esso pipeline. The attack on the pipeline running through the estate of the late multi-millionaire Robert Sangster in Manton happened on April...
The three men on trial in Spain for the country’s worst environmental disaster have today been acquitted by a Spanish court. The three accused men, Apostolos Mangouras, the tankers chief engineer Nikolaos Argyropoulos and Jose Luis Lopez-Sors, the serving head...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced last week that it plans to apply for permits to explore for oil in the Chukchi Sea’s off Alaska in 2014. The oil multinational was beset by both equipment and weather problems in 2012 when...
Yellow Shield are pleased to announce the launch of our best ever range of absorbent products that provide even greater quality and unsurpassed value for money. We have developed our already comprehensive range of absorbents and have created both an...
The ochre coloured waters of the Rheidol are now a thing of the past.Despite its inception being over 300 years ago, the impact of the Industrial Revolution can still be seen on the UK’s environment, and in particular, its...
Spilkleen Super Plus More often than not, absorbent granule products can have many undesirable qualities, namely an off-putting odour and all too messy dust particles that arise from using such a product. So at Yellow Shield, we have been looking to...
