Clarification has just been published for England and wales over government’s interpretation of the relationship between Environmental Permitting and local authorities’ statutory nuisance duties. It is interesting to note the attention drawn in this document […]
…..by thinking such sites only occur in large towns. In fact gas works site are extremely common across the UK and sometimes identified in some suprising locations. If you are still referring to the old […]
As we all know health and safety must be assessed on a site specific basis. Security of open excavations has to take account of the risks of pedestrians and vehicles entering the excavation. A recent […]
Often there are potentially conflicting demands between the management of land contamination issues and archaeological remains which may be a receptor, a source of contamination or a pathway for the transfer of contamination to another […]
In case you mised this according to the “Science for Environment Policy” weekly news alerts for 12 February 2015 new research has found that bacteria taken from underground petroleum reserves could be used to effectively […]
This week saw the EA issue their Position Statement: Using DNA-based methods for environmental monitoring and decision-making. It seems amazing that only 13 years since the mapping of the human genome in 2003 that the […]