UK climate change programme : memoranda relating to the inquiry submitted to the Committee / Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Transport, and Regional Affairs Committee.
Date:
1999
Catalogue details

Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: UK climate change programme : memoranda relating to the inquiry submitted to the Committee / Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    46/112 (page 40)
    The Government and the fire protection industry undertake to meet at least annually to review this voluntary agreement and any actions resulting from it. November 1997 APPENDIX TO FIC VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT BS 5306 Part 3: 1985—Code of Practice for Selection, Installation and Maintenance of Portable Fire Extinguishers ; BS 5306 Part 4: 1986—Specification for Carbon Dioxide Systems BS 5306 Section 5.1: 1992—Specification for Halon 1301 Total Flooding Systems BS EN3: 1996—Portable Fire Extinguishers (Parts 1-6 as appropriate) BS 7867: 1997—Specification for Portable Fire Extinguishers for use in Aircraft BS 7863: 1996—Recommendations for Colour Coding to Indicate the Extinguishing Media Contained in portable Fire Extinguishers BS 5839 Part 1: 1988—Fire Detection and Alarm Systems in Buildings Code of Practice for System Design, Installation and Servicing BS ENS54: 1996—Fire Detection and Fire Alarm Systems BS 5839 Part 4—Specification for Control and Indicating Equipment BS 6266: 1992—Code of Practice for Fire Protection for Electronic Data Processing Installations BS EN27201-1: 1994—Code of Practice for Safe Handling and Transfer Procedures BS 7273—Code of Practice of the operation of Fire Protection Measures: Part 1: 1990—Electrical Actuation of Gaseous Total Flooding Extinguishing Systems Part 2: 1992—Mechanical Actuation of Gaseous Total Flooding and Local Application Extinguishing Systems BS 7327 Part 1: 1990—Specification for Small Fixed Fire Extinguishers | NOTE The standards applicable to Halon and CO, have been included because of the absence of standards for the new extinguishants and should be used as a guide to current practice where appropriate. Memorandum by Country Guardian (CC 13) UK CLIMATE CHANGE PROGRAMME Country Guardian was established in 1992 in response to the introduction of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation, when it was realised by a number of environmentalists that the United Kingdom’s last wildernesses were threatened with massive industrialisation in the form of wind turbines and that the benefit in terms of clean energy would be negligible. Country Guardian is a voluntary organisation funded entirely by its members’ subscriptions and donations and represents no vested interests. While the UK has the greatest wind resource of any European country, the areas of greatest wind speed overlap almost entirely the most highly regarded landscapes—National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Heritage Coasts, Areas of Great Landscape Value—as well as spectacular landscapes like the Radnor Forest which have no designation through anomalies of planning history. Designated Areas have no special protection from wind farm projects, and the NFFO tendering system tends to drive developers to the high wind speed sites. There have been or are currently planning applications within an AONB (Weardale), on an SSSI (Denbigh Moor), immediately next to the Pembrokeshire National Park at Jordanston and Cilciffeth, and a mile from the Lake District National Park at Lowick Beacon. There are a tiny fraction of the total number of projects for prized landscape locations. The planning system provides the only protection from wholesale industrialisation by wind turbine. Because the wind “turbine” (more properly called an air-screw generator) produces a tiny amount of electricity compared to other generation technologies, vast numbers are required to produce a significant amount of energy. The two largest wind farms in Europe, both in Mid Wales, produce on average a total of 20 MW between them towards a national average demand ‘that exceeds 40,000 MW.