Environmental Law and Development Creating the Right Environment for Success
Posted by admin in Environmental Law on October 1, 2011
Environmental Strategies are key to successful Developments
The environment is on everyone’s mind these days. National governments, regional assemblies and local authorities are fighting a strange fight. Balancing the need to meet carbon reduction targets and at the same time trying protect vital landscapes and species. While many individuals would argue that they are concerned about the environment and are doing their ‘bit’ to save energy and re-cycle, these same individuals can often be found objecting to large scale wind farm schemes. There is a huge paradox when it comes to green developments. Often these potentially beneficial developments are blocked on, wait for it, environmental grounds. For the developer, understanding environmental law and legislation is a major factor that can save time and money. Environmental consultants or solicitors can play a crucial role at all stages of the proposed development.
What came first – The Developer or the Nimby?
It’s probably easier to answer the one about the egg and the chicken. However any developer, whatever the scale of development, will be aware of the niggling presence of objectors. When these objectors form a pressure group and begin to look into ‘environmental factors’ only the bravest developer does not feel the urge to run for (or from) the hills. Read the rest of this entry »
Environmental Law – Increasing Regulation Due to Climate Change
Posted by admin in Environmental Law, Regulations Law on October 1, 2011
With ever-increasing regulation due to the change in climate, carbon, energy storage and waste, packaging has become a major issue. The International Energy Carbon Capture Storage Regulators network has a special interest in providing policy makers with the opportunity to speak with peers in an objective, neutral forum. The policy makers come from a variety of settings which include local, provincial, national, regional and international levels.
Carbon capture storage is a major issue which all countries must be made accountable for. Increasingly we are all coming under pressure to lessen our own personal carbon footprint. The major PLC’s then have a bigger responsibility. The scale of their operations means that they need specialist waste disposal consultants at the very least to make sure they can deal with modern manufacturing and the waste therein, for example the law and regulation of batteries, in particular the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulation which was brought about in 2009.
Producer Responsibility means that the business first placing the battery or product containing a battery, onto the UK market is responsible for the costs of recycling. Under the terms of the Waste Battery and Accumulator Regulations 2009, producers will have to put a collection network in place to recycle batteries and inform the public about that network.
There is increasing interest in developments in Fuel cells and flow batteries (a form of rechargeable battery in which electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electro active species flows through an electrochemical cell that converts chemical energy directly to electricity); this will need further regulation. Read the rest of this entry »