Lost Lapdog: SEPA “completely gutted, destroyed & incapable of functioning” reports The Ferret! https://t.co/Iwb5JKKWyP @ScottishEPA pic.twitter.com/llNQ0MMZI4
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 7, 2022
The Ferret reported (6 February 2022):
The Ferret article - sourced from a Freedom of Information reply by SEPA to Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots - included:
Download the report released by SEPA via FOI to Corin Smith online here
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has admitted that it cannot recover information from its national monitoring, compliance and enforcement databases in 2019 and 2020 because “information no longer exists”.https://t.co/d996nQM34F
— The Ferret (@FerretScot) February 6, 2022
Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots posted on Facebook (6 February 2022):
Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month:
As @TerryAHearn looks back on his 7 year tenure in charge of SEPA his legacy is so toxic that it may require years of rehab to recover from! https://t.co/agiEHPr1tF @ScottishEPA @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @scotgp @marinescotland @MairiGougeon @nature_scot pic.twitter.com/qN6HCREVII
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 23, 2022
When Scottish Salmon Watch visited SEPA's offices in Fort William in July last year they were closed to the public:
In view of the flood of toxic chemicals being discharged by salmon farms and well boats into lochs around Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency should be renamed the Scottish Environment Pollution Agency!
Scotland's Environmental Watchdog is Dead in the Water - read how @ScottishEPA was sliced to death by the Salmafia @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @marinescotland
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 22, 2022
Is @TerryAHearn now going to work for the salmon pharming lobby? https://t.co/sZLwL103qc @FerretScot pic.twitter.com/cw08a05rxZ
Back in 2013, two years before Terry A'Hearn became chief executive of SEPA, Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine famously portrayed SEPA as a lapdog sitting on the lap on the chief executive of Scottish salmon farming lobby.
In 2013, lobbying from the Scottish salmon farming industry stopped data on numbers of mortalities being reported publicly as it was deemed "commercially damaging". The Sunday Herald reported in October 2013:
If you're looking for data on numbers of @rspcaassured dead farmed salmon in Scotland they don't exist - in 2013 @SSPOsays lobbied @ScottishEPA not to disclose mortalities as it was deemed commercially damaging! https://t.co/cDEyvS04dO @strathearnrose @salmon_scottish @scotgp pic.twitter.com/FICRbrpGXJ
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 2, 2020
SEPA's culture of pandering to the Salmafia - just six foreign owned/controlled companies have a stranglehold over 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming - became even more deeply rooted under the leadership of Terry A'Hearn. A Leader Comment published by The Sunday Herald in May 2017 branded SEPA a "poodle" which "seems more concerned to grease the wheels of industry":
How SEPA has been wined and dined by the salmon farming lobby - as well as other industries - has been reported extensively by The Ferret. Here's an article by Rob Edwards in December 2017:
Anne Anderson's slap-up dinner and smoked salmon breakfast was so satisfying that she left SEPA to join the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation. The Ferret reported in September 2018:
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in March 2021:
How greenwashing works - Anne Anderson leaves @ScottishEPA in 2018 to join @SSPOsays (after being wined and dined by lobbyists https://t.co/PYSHIAfAcU) and now joins Norwegian salmon farming giant @scotseafarms @LeroySeafood https://t.co/WeEvq6Xe6m
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 29, 2021
Scottish Salmon Watch reported in April 2018:
SEPA should be renamed the Scottish Environment Pollution Agency @ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 3, 2021
Shame on SEPA for allowing salmon farming to pollute with impunity! @ScotlandMowi @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @SSPOsays @HamishMacdonell https://t.co/ugc4X7psEV
Scottish Salmon Watch reported last month:
Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018! https://t.co/TAE9KRYcZv @ScottishEPA @ScotlandSalmon @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd @salmon_scottish @scotseafarms @GriegShetland @kamesfishfarm @vmdgovuk @MairiMcAllan @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured @sainsburys @Tesco @LidlGB pic.twitter.com/4CUyGTHUUU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 25, 2022
Read more via:
Toxic Scottish Salmon - Chemical Use Doubles Since 2018!
SEPA Boss Quits - Scotland's Environmental Watchdog is Dead in the Water!
Greenwashing by Scottish Salmon - as sponsored by SEPA!
Fish farm pollution rules relaxed for Brexit
Fury as fish farm pesticide pollution rises 72% in a year
Under the Cloak of Coronavirus: SEPA open the floodgates to lobster-killing chemicals!
6 green rules that have been relaxed in response to Covid-19
The Ferret: "Environmental rules for salmon farming industry relaxed"
SEPA relax environmental controls during Coronavirus crisis
Shame on SEPA the Laggard not Leader (even the sloths at SSPO are quicker at publishing data)!
ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
Follow the Salmoney - the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
The Ferret: "Fish farm companies ‘bidding to use bee-harming pesticide’"
Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
The Sunday Times: "Chemical fears at Scots fish farms"
EXPOSED: Scottish Salmon's Cascading Use of Cancer-Causing Chemical
Salmon farming giant Mowi probed over chemical use
Leading fish farm watchdog joins fish farm industry
Fish farming industry bids to relax limits on toxic pesticide
All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon
The Scottish Environment Pollution Agency
SEPA's Shame on Salmon Farming
How the Scottish Government ‘nuanced’ away fish farm pesticide ban
Pesticide report suppressed after freedom of information warning
Scottish Government under fire for helping block pesticide ban
Revealed: secret role of US drug company in fish farm pesticide row
Ban on polluting pesticide dropped after complaint from fish farmers
Mapped: the 45 lochs polluted by fish farm pesticides
The Sunday Times: "Salmon industry toxins soar by 1000 per cent"
Scottish Salmon's Lethal Legacy - Ten-fold Increase in Toxic Chemical Use in Ten Years
Scientific Backgrounder: Ecotoxicity & Chemical Resistance
Media Backgrounder: Scotland's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
Daily Mail: "The toxic chemicals in farmed salmon straight from the loch"
Scottish Salmon Overdoses on Toxic Chemical
"In order to protect anonymity, SEPA is unable to comment further" @TerryAHearn @ScottishEPA https://t.co/OT51wwp3rj
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) January 21, 2022
Was Terry on the take? #BrownPaperEnvelopes
Was Terry behind the cyberhack? #DarkWeb
Is Terry joining Anne Anderson working @ScotlandSalmon & @scotseafarms?