EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – WASTE
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has voted to fight exemptions written into the proposed European Union (EU) directive on managing mining waste. MEPs have proposed amendments deleting changes supported by the EU Council of Ministers, for instance reducing controls of so-called 'non-hazardous non-inert' waste. The committee claimed this classification has "absolutely no scientific basis", adding such materials could still pose a danger in a slag heap or tailings pond. It continued: "Failure in a facility containing this waste...could ...
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