2011-4
Acid News
Reviewing the Large Combustion Plant BREF
The references documents for best available technique (BAT) for large combustion plants are under review. New issues like oil shale, firing of high-sulphur coal and greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide and sulphur hexafluoride will be considered.
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Acid News
Call to extend stricter fuel standards
A ship fuel sulphur limit of 0.1 per cent should be extended to apply to all territorial waters of EU member states up to 12 nautical miles (22 km) from their coasts, according to Finnish MEP Satu Hassi, the European Parliament's rapporteur on the sulphur-in-fuels directive.
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Acid News
No. 4, December 2011
Implementing the stricter ship fuel sulphur standard of 0.1 per cent in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, is estimated to save up to 16,000 lives per year in the EU in 2020.
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Acid News
SECAs all around Europe
“it is not acceptable for the shipping industry to keep on transferring the cost of its pollution to society at large”
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