BILLIONAIRE Jim Ratcliffe has snubbed politicians investigating transforming Grangemouth into a carbon neutral hub despite his petrochemical company, Ineos, being the biggest single polluting company in the country.
Scotland has committed to becoming a carbon net zero nation by 2045 – while MSPs have also pledged that emissions will be cut by 75 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. But the biggest challenge for the Scottish Government is removing carbon produced by the industrial hub at Grangemouth. Figures from Sepa show that five Ineos sites at Grangemouth released 3.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2019 – more than double that emitted by any other company.
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The UK is facing a £1 billion bill to replicate the EU’s chemical database after the government opted to leave the bloc’s REACH system on 31 December.
As part of Brexit, the UK has decided to build up its own chemicals database, a process that will take years to complete.
Under the new UK REACH system, registration of chemical data will be staggered over a period of 6 years, starting on 28 October 2021.
The UK’s system “is empty at the moment,” says Simon March, communications director at the UK chemicals industries association.
“This is not a case of copy-paste, as companies will need to review their entire product portfolio, renegotiate data sharing agreements with other companies that have registered the same substance under EU REACH to have permission to use the same data for UK REACH and then re-submit the dossiers to the new UK Agency,” March told EURACTIV.
Lithuanian students call to end unpaid internships
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A Lithuanian student movement wants to end unpaid internships, quoting a recent European Parliament resolution denouncing it as exploitation. Not all agree.
Julius Zikas, a third-year undergraduate student at Kaunas Technical College, has finished a one-month internship at Elinta, an industrial electronics firm based in Kaunas Free Economic Zone.
The internship was a mandatory part of his course, but he decided to stay on in the firm longer, even though he is not being paid by Elinta.
“I don t think they should, there s nothing to pay for,” Zikas says.