"Very Serious Pollution" at The Scottish Salmon Company

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"There was a very serious pollution event today out at Marybank Ind. Estate from a what I believe to be a surface water pipe discharging into the Glen River," wrote Ross Hall of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in an email to the Scottish Salmon Company in May 2017. "I think the grey content is rotting organic matter as we see similar colours in sewage discharges. This would point the finger towards TSSC" (The Scottish Salmon Company)

Here's photos obtained via FOI from SEPA:

Here's other correspondence between SEPA and the Scottish Salmon Company obtained via FOI by GAAIA:

"This 'very serious pollution' incident is yet another in the raft of water pollution cases involving salmon farms," said Don Staniford of the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture. "The Scottish Salmon Company is a noxious neighbour or to steal the company's own phrase 'a vipers' nest'. Scottish salmon farming is a dirty rotten industry which spreads water pollution, infectious diseases, toxic chemicals, mass escapes and kills dozens of seals each year. Hopefully the Scottish Parliament's ongoing inquiry into salmon farming will recommend at the very least a moratorium."