EU MEMBER STATES SPLIT OVER COMBUSTION PLANT POLLUTION LAW
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are pushing for more flexibility over plans to insist that existing large combustion plants (including power plants) follow current Best Available Techniques (BAT) on pollution by 2016. The move would come in planned reforms to the EU's integrated pollution control and prevention directive (also known as the industrial emissions directive).
There are concerns that the timetable is too tight and could actually lead to the mothballing of power plants and some ministers called for a longer deadline, said a communiqué ...
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