In recent weeks the RAW Team in Belfast, as part of the companies Spill Response capability across the UK and Ireland successfully prevented a serious impact on a housing estate, school and large outlet shopping centre with the speed of their response and containment measures.In the hours after their attendance at a Hospital in Antrim where a large spill had been discovered, RAW worked with the...
Dr. Jon Burton of RAW Group to address Environmental Sustainability at UKSpill seminar on 16th April 2013
3 April 2013
Click here for details of UKSpill April 2013 SeminarUKSpill's annual InlandSpill Seminar will take place on the 16th April 2013 at the Fire Service College in Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 0RH. This one day seminar hosted by the UKSpill Association on inland oil spill incidents, aims to bring clients, regulators and contractors together to discuss how inland spill incidents are currently...
RAW Opens in Newcastle
26 March 2013
Owain Roger has moved to our Newcastle office which opened in September 2012. Covering Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham and the North East. Owain will add his extensive experience in domestic and commercial oil spills to the RAW regional service being provided from our Newcastle office.
Dr. Jon Burton appointed as Chairman of the UK Spill Association
11 February 2013
On 5 February 2013, Dr. Jon Burton, Technical Director with RAW Group, took up the position of Chairman of the UK Spill Association (UK Spill). Jon has been a board Director of the UK Spill Association since February 2012 and will be Chairman of UK Spill for the period from 2013-2015.UK Spill represents companies, organisations and individuals working within the oil spill industry in the UK and...
Chlordane spill cleaned up by RAW's Norwich office - a pesticide which has been banned in the EU since 1998
23 January 2013
Banned in the EU and classified as a Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP) following the spillage within his garage, the householder washed the chlordane pesticide into gravels to the front of the property.The local Fire Authority, Environment Agency and Health Protection Agency (HPA) were involved and the householder was evacuated and instructed to assess the risk to health in his garage, a bedroom...
RAW recently entered 3 teams in the Severn Trent Mountain Challenge and the great news is that all of the teams completed the course and to our surprise one of our teams won a trophy in the event!Our team from Malvern are celebrating after winning the ECS trophy for being the fastest water company contractor to complete the 30 mile hike held in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday 30 June....
RAW opens new office in Inverness
29 June 2012
RAW is delighted to announce the opening of our new office in Inverness. This will significantly extend our existing capabilities in Scotland into the Highlands improving the service offered to our clients in the region. Eve Muirhead is our Operations Manager for Scotland covering the region with Alan Dundas as our Environmental Scientist based out of Inverness.
RAW is very pleased to be sponsoring the CL:AIRE Members Reception at the House of Commons on Wednesday 20th June 2012. For further information see the link below:www.claire.co.ukContaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments (CL:AIRE) is a respected independent not-for-profit organisation established to stimulate the regeneration of contaminated land in the UK by raising awareness of, and...