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COMMON FORUM and NICOLE Common Position Paper on Innovative technologies
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There are potentially millions of sites in the EU where land contamination could pose a risk to water resources, ecosystems, and/or human health. As a result over € 2,000 million is believed to be spent annually on site characterisation, risk management and remediation. Stakeholders are facing new challenges: the discovery of new sites or new types of pollution and an increased demand for land that is suitable for use. Without cost-effective and sustainable management of the land the environmental impact and the cost will only increase further. This paper proposes concrete actions to help turn this trend around, supporting both the European economy as well as common European efforts towards a better environment.
Authors:
COMMON FORUM and NICOLE
Publication Details:
COMMON FORUM and NICOLE (2009) Common Position Paper on Innovative technologies. NICOLE Secretariat, TNO, Appeldoorn, the Netherlands. www.nicole.org.
Year:
2009
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0.42 MB
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NICOLE Position on Proposed Soil Protection Directive (Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe)
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The NICOLE Soil Working Group has recently reviewed the current EU
Presidency proposals on the Framework Directive for the Protection of
Soil (dated 15 September 2008). In general NICOLE supports many of the
current proposals made by the Presidency, but there are a number of
important issues that NICOLE considers to be critical for the
sustainable protection and management of soil. The NICOLE opinion is
stated in a position paper that has been sent to the Environment
Commission of the European Parliament.
Authors:
NICOLE Soil Working Group
Publication Details:
7 November 2008
Year:
2008
Size:
0.10 MB
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Comments on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Waste
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NICOLE (Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe) is a leading forum on contaminated land management in Europe, promoting co-operation between industry, service providers and academia on the development and application of sustainable technologies.
NICOLE welcomes the principles contained in the Thematic Strategy on Waste Prevention and Recycling and the goal of making Europe a recycling society. NICOLE’s interest in waste is in relation to contaminated and uncontaminated soils, soil treatment, and materials generated by brownfield regeneration. NICOLE has identified that certain interpretations of the current Waste Framework Directive are undermining fundamental established principles of ‘suitability for use’ and ‘risk based land management’ in use in Europe. These principles are supported by the proposed Soil Framework Directive. NICOLE is keen to support productive revisions to the Waste Framework Directive to support these principles and enable a consistent approach to soil management in Europe. Under current interpretations, opportunities are being lost to reuse treated and untreated soils, restrictions are being placed on treatment and regeneration processes, and this is placing a greater burden on landfill and the
use of primary, quarried, replacement.
The NICOLE Waste Working Group has compiled this Position Paper. NICOLE would be happy to work with European Institutions in respect of drafting guidance that helps to link contaminated land and waste policy in a way that positively encourages sustainable development, or in any other related productive capacity.
Authors:
NICOLE Waste Working Group
Publication Details:
NICOLE (2007) Comments on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Waste. NICOLE, TNO, Appeldoorn, Netherlands. Downlodable from www.nicole.org
Year:
2007
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42.3 KB
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Redevelopment of industrial sites: an industry view
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An overview of NICOLE Industry Subgrouo and industry views on brownfields redevelopment
Authors:
Anja Sinka
Publication Details:
Sinka, A. (2007) Redevelopment of industrial sites: an industry view. Presntation made to Revit 2007, April 2007, Stuttgart. Slide Set
Year:
2007
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1
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Management of contaminated land for the protection of water resources
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A long history of environmental pollution is archived in soils and sediments. Water transfer through too many contaminated sites across Europe results in unacceptable levels of contaminants leaching into the groundwater. Former industrial areas, contaminated agricultural soils, contaminated sediments and landfills are already causing a diversity of serious problems for land-use, groundwater (a major source of drinking water) and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Land-use changes and climatic changes may turn more of the sinks of pollution that are present in soils and sediments into new sources.
Authors:
NICOLE
Publication Details:
The September 2000 Joint Statement of NICOLE, CLARINET, ETCA and SENSPOL
Year:
2000
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59 KB
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CARACAS / NICOLE Joint Statement: Towards a Better Future: Establishing Fitness for Use and Sustainable
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Past and present human activities which introduce contaminants to the soil and groundwater have resulted in some 750,000 sites across Europe with suspected contamination. Some of these sites may endanger water resources, ecosystems, and/or human health. Better methods are needed for assessing the likely impacts on humans and the environment…
Authors:
NICOLE, CARACAS
Publication Details:
CARACAS / NICOLE Joint Publication, October 1997
Year:
1997
Size:
38 KB
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