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7th February 2018

Biogas Firm Fined Over Moyola Fish Kill

The Altagoan joins the Moyola River northeast of Draperstown

#FishKill - A bio-renewables plant has been fined £1,600 over a fish kill in an important salmon and trout angling catchment in Co Derry over a year ago, according to BBC News.

J&A Renewables was found to have allowed a slurry discharge into the Altagoan River, a tributary of the Moyola River, causing the death of a “significant” number of fish over a two-mile stretch in November 2016, as previously reported on Afloat.ie.

The company, which uses slurry and silage to make biogas for power generation, was also found to be operating its anaerobic digester without a proper waste management licence.

A fine of £1,600 plus compensation costs of £1,800 was handed down by Magherafelt Magistrates Court.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago