Prevention of Pollution from Oil Stores

United Kingdom

The DETR has launched a consultation paper on proposals or regulations to control pollution from oil stores in England. Oil-related water pollution incidents in England accounted for 30% of all water pollution in 1998, mainly due to unbunded tanks and the Government is intending to introduce legislation to reduce such pollution later this year.

The proposed regulations affect anyone storing oil above ground, with certain exceptions. Those mainly affected would be those with a 200 litre lower limit to storage capacity on industrial, commercial and institutional (residential and non-residential) premises.

The paper can be downloaded from http://www.detr.gov.uk/consult.htm.

For further information on this topic please contact Verity Kidd at [email protected] or on (+44) (0)20 7367 3000.