ADBA's second regulator day on Thursday 16 October, hosted by Walker Morris in Leeds, featured a packed agenda of environmental and health and safety regulatory issues. Our notes of the key issues discussed are provided below. BREF EA updated…
The Environment Agency have reported that they have now received 24 questionnaires out of an expected 71 for the UK. These questionnaires will provide the information which the Commission will use to set new permitting rules for large waste plants. The…
Yesterday I attended a European Biogas Association workshop on digestate, focussing on the prospect of end of waste proposals. Along with REA, we spent the morning going through the current UK position in some detail with EBA board members. In…
ADBA's new Policy Officer, Will Bushby, starts on Monday (13 October). Will has joined us from the Chartered Management Institute, a membership organisation where he had a similar role responsible for policy development, government relations, and running working groups. He…
Last week we spent two days at the European Biogas Association conference. We represented the UK industry in a number of discussions, and our notes on the sessions we attended are below. (A quick note on terminology for those less…
This week I spent a couple of days at Lib Dem conference talking to ministers, parliamentarians and other groups about energy and environment policy. Overall, the party is feeling bullish on energy and the environment. The impression that ministers, MPs…
In the second half of a day spent largely in Defra, I took part in a AD Steering Group meeting on Monday afternoon. A final report on the AD Strategy and Action Plan is to be published this autumn/winter, and…
Earlier today I attended a meeting in Defra on biowaste regulation. Below are some notes and updates for members. For food waste operators, the update below on the development of fertilizer regulations - which builds on European End of Waste…
We held our latest meeting with DECC on biomethane sustainability criteria yesterday, following discussions over the past few weeks. Notes from this meeting are below. Meeting with DECC, 11 September 2014 DECC: Andy Davey, Pete Burnill (RHI team); Philip Sargent…
Following pressure from operators, the EA have provided clarity on their approach to ‘crop residues’ used in AD plants. The new briefing note can be downloaded here. This clarifies their definition of crop residues as follows:We are referring here to…