Tag Archives: pollution

EU and US offshore regulators call on Oil and Gas Companies to Raise Global Safety Standards

Posted on 18, July 2013 by EuropaWire PR Editors

18-7-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Just days before European rules on offshore safety for European companies abroad enter into force, and just a few months before additional requirements for companies operating in US waters take effect, the European Commissioner for energy, Guenther … Read the full press release →

Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, European Union, Government, Security & Safety

Tagged Alpha platform, drilling companies, European regulated waters, Gas Companies, Guenther Oettinger, Macondo disaster, offshore disaster, offshore regulators, offshore safety, Oil Companies, pollution, Safety Standards

EU Auditors report calls on the EC to improve the running of regeneration projects on so-called “brownfield” sites

Posted on 23, April 2013 by EuropaWire PR Editors

Luxembourg, 23-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — A new report from the European Court of Auditors, the EU spending watchdog, calls on the European Commission to improve the running of regeneration projects on so-called “brownfield” sites – former industrial and military areas … Read the full press release →

Posted in Environment, European Union, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Luxembourg, Politics, Society

Tagged Auditors, brownfield policy, brownfield site registers, Cohesion funds, contaminated, derelict, environmental clean-ups, ERDF, EU Auditors, EU budgets, EU funded regeneration projects, Henri Grethen, industrial areas, military areas, polluter pays principle, pollution, public funding, public money, redeveloped buildings, redeveloped land, regeneration projects, soil contamination, “Brownfield” sites