{"id":490157,"date":"2026-03-23T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:23:28","slug":"high-court-quashes-disposal-licence-for-river-tees-dredging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490157\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court quashes disposal licence for River Tees dredging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibbon, a member of the North East Marine Research Group (NEMRG), sought a judicial review, arguing the licence needed more precise information on the areas of the Tees safe to dredge without disturbing potentially hazardous sediment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the seal deaths were a &#8220;canary in the mine&#8221; indicating potential risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Twenty two seal pups born and roughly 22 pups died &#8211; it&#8217;s just tragic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s almost invisible because you see the adult seals and you don&#8217;t notice what&#8217;s happening below the surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibbon said high levels of pollutants were found in seal pups and the dredging and disposal could explain how the toxins had been released into the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gibbon, a member of the North East Marine Research Group (NEMRG), sought a judicial review, arguing the licence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-490157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}