Test, Water, Quality, Environment

 

Test

Liability for pollution incidents has changed dramatically in recent years. Whereas a polluter faced little prospect of being prosecuted about 10 years ago, the Environment Agency has brought over 1,700 successful prosecutions in in the past three years. years. The nature of liabilities liabilities has also changed. Polluters are now generally required to remediate their pollution. If the pollution incident has only just occurred, the pollutants must generally be removed or treated and harm caused by them remedied regardless of the current or future use of of the land. If the incident occurred in the past, the standard of remediation is suitably for or current use. In unlawful. such a case, how ever,be thefound, polluter polluter lliable iable or regardless of whether he was negligent his acts were If hehowever, cannot theisowner occupier of the land is liable.