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Tanker mistake pollutes marsh

3rd May 2001, Page 8
3rd May 2001
Page 8
Page 8, 3rd May 2001 — Tanker mistake pollutes marsh
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■ A South Wales-based timber firm and tanker driver have been fined more than £11,000 after causing a major pollution incident when 1,000 litres of wood preservative spilled into an estuary.

Gower Timber, of Crofty, near Swansea and driver Michael Skipworth of Warwick, pleaded guilty to the pollution offence when they appeared at Swansea magistrates court. The court heard that Skipworth had pumped the toxic fluid into the wrong tank at the company's premises without staff supervision. As a result, the liquid spilled onto the marsh and into the tougher Estuary in Swansea, killing aquatic life.

Skipworth was fined £500 while Gower Timber was fined £10,000 with £700 costs.