RE: EA Responses11 Oct 2021 11:41
our resident technical experts, are now experts at EA approval timing...sheesh. below is from the QA
The Company has already engaged in a detailed submission and has received back formal questions in the form of Schedule 5 Notices requesting further detailed information. This is a normal procedure. We understand that our application and responses to the Sch 5 have been passed to the relevant national teams looking variously at noise, groundwater and air pollution and following that process will be passed to the local officers for final approval. Grant of permit may be subject certain pre-operational conditions. We cannot however assume a timeline. There may be further enquiries but, to date, the application is following a normal course.
Whilst a natural gas processing plant is not uncomplicated, the site has been processing gas in a more modest fashion for 20 years, and we believe that the addtonal quantity of hydrocarbon fluid stored at any one time will not be of an order of magnitude as to require a major overhaul of groundwater protection (the site already has geotextile membrane, ditches and interceptor systems and we are supplementing this with further bunding and handling procedures). Nor is there any anticipation of flaring or venting of gas other than in commissioning and emergency or maintenance situations. Even maintenance flaring will be kept to a minmum by controlled shutdown procedures. Noise pollution, where we are also subject to local minerals planning authority oversight, is also a focus of management and existing sound modelling will be supplemented by continuous improvement as we engage with the practical realities of different operating conditions.
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