Buried oil tanker leads to pollution prosecution.
A demolition company which buried an oil tanker loaded with heating oil on its premises has pleaded guilty to pollution offences. L A Moore was prosecuted by the Environment Agency for allowing toxic chemicals to pollute a controlled water- course at its premises near Wells.
The company is said to have allowed a quantity of heating oil to leak from the tanker. It entered a guilty plea to the charge when the case was put before South Somerset Magistrates in Yeovil on Monday.
The court heard that L A Moore Limited committed the offence of “causing poisonous, noxious or polluting matter, namely heating oil, to enter controlled waters” on or before March 4, 2008.
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