HC Deb 12 March 1990 vol 169 c75W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the companies to which his Department has granted permits to dump industrial liquid and flyash waste in the North sea.

Mr. Curry

The companies that currently hold licences under the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 to dump liquid industrial waste and flyash in the North sea are as follows:

  • National Power
  • ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd.
  • Cleanaway Ltd. (licence to dispose of waste from Tate and Lyle Sugars)
  • Sterling Organics Ltd.
  • Allied Colloids Ltd.
  • Effluent Services Ltd. (three licences to dispose of waste from Orsynetics, Woolcombers Ltd. and Fine Organics Ltd.) Chlor Chem Ltd.