South West Water given record £2.1m fine for pollution offences

Wednesday, 26 April 2023 17:52

South West Water has been fined more than £2 million for a series of environmental offences across Devon and Cornwall spanning a period of four years.   It is the largest ever fine imposed for environmental offences in the region.   Delivering her sentence, District Judge Matson said ‘incidents of pollution will no longer be tolerated by these courts’ and fined the water company £2,150,000 today (26 April 2023).   The EA has shown that there were...Request free trial