FOI Exposes ‘Most Worrying’ Disposal of “Highly Odorous” Salmon Wastes in North Uist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Download press release and FOI backgrounder in full online here

 

 

 

 

SEPA's RELEASE F0194566 (9 March 2023) included:

44_RE_ 20220920_Whiteshore_Para7_Benefit Statement_response RR

27_20220908_Whiteshore_SEPA_NatureScot_Para7_Assessment RR

40_RE_ 20220906_Whiteshore Cockles para 7 draft (1) RR

26b_Whiteshore Agricultural Benefit Report RR

26_20220906_Whiteshore Cockles para 7 draft RR

11_RE_ Whiteshore Cockles para 7 problems RR

12_RE_ Whiteshore Cockles North Uist – proposed para 7 RR

7_Re_ Whiteshores Cockles_ Paible_ North Uist RR

37a_20220513_PPC-A-5001983_AS_response_LA consultee_comments RR

37b_220503 – Consultee Response – LA RR

8_RE_ Whiteshore Cockles RR

28_Environmental Event_Burning WasteIsle Nth Uist RR

17_RE_ Whiteshore Cockles – media enquiry – DRAFT (1) RR

47a 27-10-21 – First letter to SEPA RR

 

 

 

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The Times: "Tougher curbs for island salmon graveyard in Outer Hebrides"

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The Times: "Fish graveyard ‘severely hampers’ life for islanders, officials claim"

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Daily Mail: "Dumped into the dunes….thousands of rotten, disease ridden salmon"

Independent: "Scottish islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"

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The Times: "Islanders raise a stink over vast salmon graveyard"

Sunday National: "The Millions of Dead Salmon Dumped, Burnt or Destroyed"

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Media Backgrounder: Mort Disposal of Scottish Farmed Salmon – Ewan Kennedy – The €10 Million Mort Man

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Where have all the dead fish gone?

Fears raised by salmon dump

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