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| Title: | SEPA: Proposals to amend the Pollution Prevention and Control Fees and Charges Scheme |
| Organisation: | SEPA |
| Issued: | 12 November 2007 |
| Deadline: | 30 January 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This is the Phase 1 Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) charging scheme consultation and seeks your views on proposed amendments to the existing PPC scheme. It proposes amendments to deliver better regulation principles; making charges clearer, correcting omissions, removing inconsistencies and putting in place lower charges for installations which are currently penalised by the inflexibility of existing descriptors. Your responses to this consultation will inform the development of the final... (28 words more) |
| Title: | Standard rules and guidance for the introduction of the Environmental Permitting Regulations |
| Author: | Gary Bower |
| Organisation: | IEMA |
| Issued: | 09 November 2007 |
| Deadline: | 04 December 2007 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation seeks your views on the first sets of standard rules that we intend to make available when the Environmental Permitting (EP) Regulations are due to come into force in April 2008. They cover 28 low to medium risk activities that currently require a waste management licence, such as waste transfer stations and civic amenity sites. We are also consulting on associated documents - risk assessments, guidance on standard rules and permit templates. |
| Title: | Environment Agency: Consultation on proposed Environmental Protection charges for 2008/09 |
| Organisation: | Environment Agency |
| Issued: | 14 September 2007 |
| Deadline: | 07 December 2007 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The Environment Agency are required by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to recover the costs of their main regulatory services from the companies they regulate. They review charging schemes annually to ensure they are recovering our costs, and that their charges are as fair as possible. They consult with stakeholders before making any changes to their schemes and their responses then form part of their submission to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural... (54 words more) |
| Title: | Consultation on miscellaneous amendments to the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000 |
| Author: | DEFRA |
| Issued: | 17 October 2006 |
| Deadline: | 12 January 2007 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | DEFRA are seeking views on the attached amending regulations to the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000. The purpose of the amendment is to remove from the list of activities, installations and mobile plant to which the Regulations apply, some landfill gas engines of between 3 – 50MW (aggregated capacity), which are used to convert landfill gas produced by the biological degradation of waste in a landfill. |
Noise – an overview
by Helen Woodall ; IEMA;
by Helen Woodall ; IEMA;
The clock alarm sounds; the toilet flushes; the kettle boils; the toaster pops; the door shuts; the car engine starts and off you go to work. These are all sounds that people hear daily and take for... (304 words more)
Ferrybridge 'C' Power Station is part of Scottish and Southern Energy's UK operation. One of Ferrybridge’s key objectives in being a sustainable business is a programme of continuous improvement in... (451 words more)
Pollution prevention and control
by Steve Bradley - Head of Safety, Health and Environment; British Sugar Plc;
by Steve Bradley - Head of Safety, Health and Environment; British Sugar Plc;
The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive sets out to prevent significant pollution from large industrial activities. Emissions to air, water and land, and the consumption of... (459 words more)