Dairy company fined £1,500,000

A west country cheese maker has been fined £1,500,000 having been found guilty of a number of offenses. These included releasing a harmful biocide into the adjacent river which killed fish for over a two kilometres, coating the river with a noxious black sludge for five kilometres, consistently exceeding emission limits over a five year to 2021, repeatedly generating foul odours which affected local residents and failing to report significant events to the Environment Agency on seven separate occasions.    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dairy-crest-given-record-fine-for-davidstow-environmental-offences