Euan Snowie

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.

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.

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.