Bartter Holdings, a subsidiary of Baiada that owns Steggles, guilty of breaching its environmental protection licence over toxic liquid ammonia leak that shutdown Beresfield plant

Donna Page
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:10am, first published August 13 2020 - 7:40am
EMERGENCY: A NSW Fire and Rescue truck leaving the Beresfield chicken and turkey processing plant after a 2018 toxic gas leak, that saw Bartter Holding found guilty of breaching it's environmental protection licence in the NSW Land and Environment Court.
EMERGENCY: A NSW Fire and Rescue truck leaving the Beresfield chicken and turkey processing plant after a 2018 toxic gas leak, that saw Bartter Holding found guilty of breaching it's environmental protection licence in the NSW Land and Environment Court.

THE company behind the Beresfield chicken processing plant has been found guilty of breaching its environmental licence following a toxic gas leak that hospitalised nine people.

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Donna Page

Donna Page

Investigative journalist at the Newcastle Herald

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