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Euan Snowie, finance Director of [[Snowie Ltd]], gave £5,000 to the Labour Party in June 2001. Snowie, based in Stirling, describes himself as a "farmer", although he is currently a Director of 22 companies, including Surface Control (Glasgow) Limited, Snowie Holdings Limited, Northern Yacht Charters Limited, Northern Tanker Hire Limited, Bio-Solid Services Limited, Transorganics (UK) Limited, Bio-Recycling Limited, and ECS Investments Limited.
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Euan Snowie is the former Finance Director of [[Snowie Ltd]] . {{ref|1}} He donated £5,000 to the Labour Party in 2001, five months after winning a government contract worth more than £30 million. Euan Snowie donated the money after the waste management company Snowie Ltd was awarded clean-up work after the foot-and-mouth epidemic. {{ref|2}}
  
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It was reported in July 2001 that Snowie Ltd, a waste management company, earned as much as £30m in three months as a result of the foot and mouth epidemic. The Stirling-based firm provides transport and disposal for thousands of animal carcasses and manages mass burial sites across the UK as part of the programme to halt the spread of the disease. Snowie Ltd, run by four brothers, was originally a transport firm, but diversified into waste management, treating sewage and abattoir waste for use on farm land. Their fleet of leak-proof lorries provided airtight containers for the disposal of thousands of carcasses from the BSE crisis in 1999.
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By the end of the foot-and-mouth epidemic in January 2002, Snowie Ltd had earned over £37 million from government contracts for the transportation and burning of animal carcasses. Snowie Ltd's biggest northern rival, Armstrongs Transport, based in Wigan, spoke out after the government admitted that it had awarded business to Snowie Ltd without actually advertising the work for competitive tender. Questions were also raised about Snowies Ltd environemntal credentials after it was discovered that 900 animals were buried in the wrong location in County Durham. On three different occasions, Snowie Ltd has been fined for breaching environmental regulations. {{ref|3}}
  
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In April 2001, Managing Director [[Malcolm Snowie]] said they had trebled their staff, who were working round the clock at the mass burial site at Great Orton Airfield, Cumbria. Their management of burial sites was called into question in the same month when 900 animals were buried at the wrong location at Tow Law, Country Durham, and had to be reburied.
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In 2006, Euan Snowie and his wife, Claire, launched a court bid to ban the public from walking across the land of their £4 million mansion, Bolquhan House. Euan and Claire Snowie claimed that it was essential to protect their privacy along with that of five cottagers. {{ref|4}}
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==References==
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#{{note|1}} BBC, Landowner Tells of 'Rude' Public, 22 May 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6681229.stm
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#{{note|2}} The Scotsman, 'Scots Firm in Labour Donation Probe', 24 February 2002, http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=232&id=211822002
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#{{note|3}} The Scotsman, 'A Dirty Business?', 21 August 2002, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=921992002
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#{{note|4}} The Scotsman, 'Labour Party Donor in Court Bid to Ban public From His Land', 21 September 2006, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1395462006

Latest revision as of 14:59, 4 July 2007

Euan Snowie is the former Finance Director of Snowie Ltd . [1] He donated £5,000 to the Labour Party in 2001, five months after winning a government contract worth more than £30 million. Euan Snowie donated the money after the waste management company Snowie Ltd was awarded clean-up work after the foot-and-mouth epidemic. [2]

By the end of the foot-and-mouth epidemic in January 2002, Snowie Ltd had earned over £37 million from government contracts for the transportation and burning of animal carcasses. Snowie Ltd's biggest northern rival, Armstrongs Transport, based in Wigan, spoke out after the government admitted that it had awarded business to Snowie Ltd without actually advertising the work for competitive tender. Questions were also raised about Snowies Ltd environemntal credentials after it was discovered that 900 animals were buried in the wrong location in County Durham. On three different occasions, Snowie Ltd has been fined for breaching environmental regulations. [3]

In 2006, Euan Snowie and his wife, Claire, launched a court bid to ban the public from walking across the land of their £4 million mansion, Bolquhan House. Euan and Claire Snowie claimed that it was essential to protect their privacy along with that of five cottagers. [4]

References

  1. ^ BBC, Landowner Tells of 'Rude' Public, 22 May 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6681229.stm
  2. ^ The Scotsman, 'Scots Firm in Labour Donation Probe', 24 February 2002, http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=232&id=211822002
  3. ^ The Scotsman, 'A Dirty Business?', 21 August 2002, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=921992002
  4. ^ The Scotsman, 'Labour Party Donor in Court Bid to Ban public From His Land', 21 September 2006, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1395462006
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