A UK watchdog set to investigate a Stormont department’s environmental assessment regimes has had to scrap the plan - because the department has cut their funding.
The Office for Environmental Protection has sent a letter to Friends of the Earth outlining the “disappointing” news.
They told the NGO’s director James Orr: “I would like to thank you for your contribution and support to our work on environmental assessment regimes (EIA, SEA and HRA).
