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Fined for dumping waste in the North
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ONE OF THE LARGEST waste contractors in Waterford, Ireland has been convicted for one of the worst-ever cases of illegal dumping in Northern Ireland.
Waterford Utility Services was convicted in Waterford District Court of illegally exporting waste to a site at Kildress,CoTyrone.
The firm was fined €600 on each of seven counts it was also ordered to pay €8,891 expenses and €2,584 costs.
Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought the prosecution as part of a major investigation into the illegal movement of waste from the south-east of the Republic to the North.
The Kildress site's operator, Tyrone Waste Recycling, and company owner Fred Wilson were earlier convicted in the North on thirty-six separate counts of illegally importing waste from the Republic and illegal dumping. Cookstown District Council revoked the company's waste licence.
Local residents had complained of a plague of flies from the waste at the site -some of the mounds of rubbish were said to be up to 200 feet high.
The directors and shareholders of Waterford Utility Services are John Cottrell of Butlerstown, Waterford, and Michael Cummins of Slieverue, Co Kilkenny.
Waterford Utility Services operates from a site at the Six Cross-Roads in Waterford city last year, it reported profits of €784,871 (£551,552).
Under European Union legislation it is illegal to move waste across borders except for recycling. Tyrone Waste Recycling has appealed to the Cookstown District Council decision; it still holds a licence to collect waste in Co Kildare.
• The director of a Northern Ireland-based firm has been charged with dishonestly obtaining MAO from a director of another waste operator.
Yinka Lawal, a director of All Ireland Environmental Solutions, was charged in Omagh court with dishonestly obtaining 08,000 from James Cyril McGuinness, a director of Fermanagh Waste Recycling.