EnviroServ appeals DEA’s Waste Management Licence suspension
EnviroServ's Group CEO, Dean Thompson said an appeal will be filed against this directive as they believe not all relevant information was properly considered.
FOLLOWING the Department of Environmental Affairs decision to suspend operations at the Shongweni Landfill site, EnviroServ has issued a statement to say an appeal will be filed against this directive as they believe not all relevant information was properly considered.
In the statement, which was released yesterday, EnviroServ Group CEO, Dean Thompson said, “Our legal experts are currently considering this notice and will act in due course. The provisional advice is that an appeal will be filed against the directive.
“Last week, we shared information with the DEA relating to fresh data obtained from three real-time air quality monitors recently installed in communities surrounding the Shongweni Landfill.
“These monitors revealed the presence of high levels of sulfur dioxide (a harmful gas with a pungent odour), a gas typically produced by combustion processes, and which does not emanate from landfill sites. This, to our knowledge, has yet to be followed up by the authorities.”
Thompson added that they will continue engaging and sharing information with the Upper Highway NPC and their appointed experts WSP.
“Our remediation plans as agreed-upon with the DEA remain on track to mitigate our diminishing contribution to the existing odour problem in the coming months,” said Thompson.
Speaking about the suspension, the DEA said in statement, “Despite many interventions implemented by EnviroServ to comply with the instructions contained in the Compliance Notice, there is still an unacceptably high level of landfill gases being emitted from the Shongweni landfill site, which the authorities have confirmed to be the source of the malodour emanating from the site.”
The decision to suspend the Waste Management Licence (WML) is therefore one of the significant steps to a permanent solution to this catastrophic situation.”
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