Kildare pipeline firm fined over NI river pollution

A Kildare based firm was today fined £15,000 (€20,137) for polluting a river in the North while laying down the cross-border gas pipeline.

SICIM Roadbridge Ltd which is based in Naas, Co. Kildare received the penalty at Newry Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to a pollution incident which occurred in the Forkhill River in Co Armagh in June 2006.