Euan Snowie
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
- ^ BBC, Landowner Tells of 'Rude' Public, 22 May 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6681229.stm
- ^ The Scotsman, 'Scots Firm in Labour Donation Probe', 24 February 2002, http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=232&id=211822002
- ^ The Scotsman, 'A Dirty Business?', 21 August 2002, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/s2.cfm?id=921992002
- ^ 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
