Environment - Approved Panel Minutes - 27 February 2008

Present

Deputy R.C. Duhamel (Chairman) (RD) Connétable K. A. Le Brun of St Mary (KB)

Deputy C. Scott Warr en (CSW) Deputy P. V. F. Le Claire (PLC)

Apologies

Connétable A. S. Crowcroft (SC)

Absent

In attendance

Mr M. Robbins, Scrutiny Officer

Ref Back

Agenda matter

Action

1.

Waste:

1. Completion dates and Exhibition.

Due to added complications found within the review and the time it has taken to obtain documentation offered to Juniper by Transport and Technical Services, it was understood that the Panel would not meet the deadline of the exhibition date with the evidence fully collated and the report drafted. As a result, the Panel agreed that the exhibition would be pushed back to a more suitable date and that available dates for the venue were to be investigated. It was considered important that the exhibition and launch of the report were co-ordinated.

2. The Gasification Report from Juniper.

On the 19th February, 2008, Juniper published a report relating to Gasification Plants entitled, Juniper Ratings – Gasification. The ratings report covered all types of processes that result in the generation of a syngas;

• Conventional gasification; e.g. updraft, downdraft, fluidised bed and entrained flow processes

• Plasma gasification
• Pyrolysis processes that produced a syngas
• Systems that utilised a combination of the above

MR

technologies

Juniper ratings comprised operations at all scales and for various types of waste including MSW, RDF, medical waste, a variety of industrial  and  chemical  wastes  as  well  as  a  broad  range  of biomass materials and co-gasification of waste with biomass and coal.  The  report  included  the  major  gasification  technologies operating on coal, petcoke and oil refinery residues.

The standard cost of this report is £500 although it was believed that a small discount may have be obtained in view of the work Juniper was doing for the Panel. The Panel considered this report would add value to the Waste Plant review and approved the sum of £500 to be made available for the purchase of the document. It was further agreed that the final decision as to the documents worth would be made by the Chairman, were he to view it prior to purchase on his attendance at the Juniper office on 5th March.

RD. KLB. CSW. PLC.

RD / MR

2.

Air Quality Review:

The completion timetable was examined with regard to the limited officer resources available to the Panel. The Panel maintained that the  report  needed  to  be  completed  by  the  end  of  March.  It accepted that to achieve that timetable, the drafting would need to be delegated to another officer by the Scrutiny Office Manager.

RD. KLB. CSW. PLC.

KTF

3.

Sustainability Conference.

The Members noted that an invitation had been extended to the Panel  to  attend  a  conference  entitled  Your  building,  your environment, your future.' This was to be run by a local law firm on Wednesday 12th  March 2008 at Highlands College. The Panel agreed that this was very relevant to the Panels work and that it would attend if free from the States sitting at that time.

RD. KLB. CSW. PLC.

Panel