A review of waste disposal at the Mobuoy site and the lessons learnt for the future regulation of the waste industry in Northern Ireland
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A review of waste disposal at the Mobuoy site and the lessons learnt for the future regulation of the waste industry in Northern Ireland.
A large illegal waste dump was discovered in 2013 by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) in an area adjacent to the River Faughan in the townland of Mobuoy near Derry~Londonderry.
This area was adjacent to and included a licensed waste facility. In June 2013, the then DOE Minister, Alex Attwood, revoked the licence of the operator of the facility following an unprecedented investigation into allegations of large scale criminal offending involving the disposal of waste.
He then commissioned an independent report from Mr Chris Mills, the former Director of the Welsh Environment Agency, to carry out a review of waste disposal at the Mobuoy site and the lessons learnt for future regulation of the waste industry.
The findings are presented in this document.