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Environmental Legislation (Historical pollution treatment (Pollution…
Environmental Legislation
Application + Implementation of IPPC
Section A: Non technical summary
Section B: General
Section C:Management of the installation
Section D: Infrastructure & Operation
Section E: Emisions
Section F: Control & Monitoring
Section G: Resource use & energy efficiency
Section I: Existing environment & impact of the activity
Section J: Accident prevention & emergency response
Section K:Remediation, decommissioning, restoration & aftercare
Accident Prevention and Emergency Response
Use of low waste technology
less hazardous substances
BAT (Best Available Techniques) Criteria
Information published by public international organisations
prevention of accidents and impact of emissions
Time needed to introduce technique
BREF
Provides information on
Types of Industry in Sector
Best Available Techniques
Current Emissions
Main reference documents used by EPA when operating licenses for IED activities
Monitoring
Periodic Measurements
Continuous Measurements
New Directive- Industrial Emissions Directive
Replaces 7 Directives
LCPD
IPPC
WID
SED
Impact on Ireland (2 main changes)
1st Schedule of EPA 92 act to be interpreted
Modification of the activity categories within it
Ireland has licensed most Industries (Waste)
Emissions to sewer + surface water
Waste water emissions
Industry plant
Cooling water
Run off water
Point source emission
Process waste water
Run off water
From roofs/hardcore surfaces
May have deposits from
Storage
Air emissions
Spillages
Emissions to ground water
Depending on hydrogeology land contamination can affect underlying ground water
Testing
Depends on sites
Green field
Site of previous industrial use/application for existing activity
Requires
Drilling bore holes around the site
Pumping samples to determine contamination level
Method: GC-MS for VOCS + Chlorinated solvents
Air emissions
General operations: Charging/discharging of reactants + solvents
Point source emissions
Parties involved in IPC Licensing process
EDEN
Applicant
Other necessary parties as in EPA Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 283 of 2013)
EPA
Control & Monitoring
Monitoring procedures for all emissions
Each point source
Parameters monitored
how it is monitored
analysis method used
Ambient monitoring of
Air quality
River quality upstream/downstream
Best available technology used to prevent/eliminate/reduce emissions from the activity
Control systems in place
Historical pollution treatment
Up to 20th century control depended on: Isolation of contaminants and use of end-of-pipe filters and scrubbers.
Specific limits for air and water emission
Neutralization and creation of sludge
directed at point source discharges into air, water and soil.
End-of-pipe technique risked pollution transfer.
EPA
Came in 1992
First set of license - IPC 1994
Changed to IPPC in 1998
Large industrial plants - IED in 2014
Pollution control approach
Treatments effective on local level
Local air pollution less effective - cumulative at regional and global level
Main aim - healthy environment and good quality life
reduction of pollution to lowest possible level
Co-ordination amoung
Industrial development
City planning
Transportation policies
Water resources development
IPPC License
Covers emissions from facilites and enviromental management
Covers emissions to air, water, land and control waste and energy and resources
Single intergrated license
Aim of license
Control use of energy
Prevent pollution
Prevent emission
First Schedule of the 1992 act
There were 13 classes of activity that required licenses
Metals, chemicals, intensive agriculture, surface coatings etc
Legislation
EPA had licences for new developments and existing ones.
From 1998 the EPA act included licensing of:
Production of industrial diamonds
Ferrous metals in melting installations > 5t
Processing of asbestos
Production of castings over 500 sqm
IPC & IPPC
IPPC SECTION F
Pollution
