Day: 1 July 1999

A new framework for control

The IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive was adopted by the EU Council of Ministers in September 1996. It takes effect from October this year for new-build installations, with a phase-in period up to 2007 for existing facilities. In the first of three reports examining the Directive, UK implementation and the impact on industry, IEM talks to Peter Wicks of the European Commission's DG XI.

Sharing the burden of contractual responsibility

Lis Stedman describes how water industry contracts are set out, from partnering agreements and PFI deals in the UK, to turnkey contracts for overseas projects.

Outsourcing predicted to increase during AMP3

In an interview with WWT, Bruno Speed, director of Miller Water, makes clear his views on the future of contracting in the water industry and predicts that in the AMP3 period from 2000-2005, even more work will be outsourced by the plcs.

Costain under contract to the water industry

Construction giant Costain has secured a number of partnering deals with UK water companies, for some of the largest wastewater projects in the country.

The liabilities of the land

Liberty Legal Indemnities (LLI), a subsidiary of the Lloyd's managing agency Liberty Syndicate Management (LSM), has launched Landpro, a new scheme that can protect policy holders against new liabilities arising in respect of contaminated land that has been remediated. The concept has been developed by LSM in conjunction with BCD Underwriting Agency and follows the Government's environmental liability legislation set out under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

A green focus on FTSE 350

Sectoral benchmarking, performance measurement and a wider sample of listed companies, brings a sharper green focus to this year's Business in the Environment survey of corporate environmental engagement. Angela Himus reports.

Twin-track soil contamination removal

A twin-track system for removing soil contamination - developed by environmental engineers MEL of Wakefield - is providing cost savings and technical benefits while fitting unobtrusively into the client's normal working environment.

Petroleum remediation gel

In a recent in situ bioremediation project undertaken by Response Environmental Services, one company saved around 56% of its costs through opting for bioremediation as opposed to landfill.

KEECO wraps up heavy metals

KEECO (Klean Earth Environ-mental Company) is a relatively young environmental company specialising in the provision of a unique Silica Micro Encapsulation (SME) treatment process for the remediation of liquid and solid wastes contaminated by heavy metals or radionuclides.

Belgian technology targets UK

OVAM, the Flemish equivalent of the UK's Environment Agency, was first given powers to enforce clean-up of contaminated sites by a Parliamentary Waste Decree of 1981. In the UK, by contrast, similar powers will only come into force with the implementation of Part IIA of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act - due this Summer. In short? The Belgians are coming.

CLAIRE in the community

There is increasing pressure to remediate and re-use the UK's estimated 200,000 hectares of contaminated land in the UK for housing and other developments. At the current rate of progress, however, the clean-up of these sites could take 200 years to achieve, at a cost of some £20 billion. CLAIRE (Contaminated Land Applications In Real Environments) has been established to encourage research, practical demonstrations and applications of remediation technologies to clean up contaminated land. Chief executive Paul Beck lays the foundations.

Fitting regulations for backflow technology

Danfoss' product manager Ian Ward describes an alternative to the type A air gap system for backflow prevention, the RPZ valve, which is now legal in the UK following changes to the water supply regulations.

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