ECJ REFUSES TO REINFORCE EU WASTE-TO-ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT RULES
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ignored European Commission calls for a legal precedent that waste-to-energy plants follow the same environmental impact assessment rules as simple waste incineration.
Brussels had called on judges to clarify the EU environmental impact assessment directive 85/37/EEC in a German case about authorising a wood gas firing combined heat-and-power plant. The initial environmental assessment was told inert wood chips were to be used, but after permission was granted, the operator said wood chips with potentially ...
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