Proceedings With Contaminated Industrial Sites in Terms of New Legislation – Part I. Historical Pollution of the Earth's Surface

Abstract

WSTĘPProblematyka zanieczyszczenia gleb, w szczególności metalami, dotyczy przede wszystkim obszarów dawnego i obecnego funkcjonowania obiektów wydobycia oraz przetwórstwa rud metali, zakładów metalurgicznych, a także terenów dużych miast [Karczewska i in. 2008[Karczewska i in. , 2010. PROCEEDINGS WITH CONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL SITES IN TERMS OF NEW LEGISLATION -PART I. HISTORICAL POLLUTION OF THE EARTH'S SURFACEABSTRACT This article shows a way of dealing with the industrial areas, where historical contamination of the earth's surface occurred, together with an indication of the proper remediation method selection. Public Administration authorities, including the Regional Director of Environmental Protection (RDOŚ) and the governor are responsible, among others, for identifying areas where historical contamination or potential historical contamination of the earth's surface occurred. General Director of Environmental Protection is responsible for conducting and updating the registry, which contains information on identified by RDOŚ and district governor contaminated areas. The article discusses also issues related to the duties and responsibilities wielding the earth's surface, as well as the costs of using the environment, taking into account the "polluter pays" principle.

Sources of Emissions in Refinery – Legal Regulations and Costs

“…The refinery itself, as a facility, may be a source of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions or carbon footprint in the life cycle of engine fuels [14,15]. In many studies [11,12,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26], the authors agree that refining processes in crude oil processing plants are the primary sources of emissions pollution to the environment, both to the air, can also be related to soil / ground and groundwater pollution as well as the generation of waste. The largest amounts are gaseous pollutants.…”