Welcome to our new member!

A very warm welcome to our new member AMEC!

AMEC is one of the world’s leading engineering, project management and consultancy companies. They design, deliver and maintain strategic assets for their customers, offering services which extend from environmental and front end engineering design before the start of a project to decommissioning at the end of an asset’s life.

For more information please visit their website.

Nan Su
NICOLE secretariat 

Alert to members – Change in the Prague WG Planning

NICOLE participation for several projects for the H2020 program is known.
The information will be announced during the Regulatory Working Group (13.00 – 14.30) on 5th of November.

For the people who have already registered or intend to register for Working Group H2020, please notice this working group will not be active.

International Development

– South-Africa
John Kidd from Shell together with several other industry members and Service providers are busy setting up “NICOLEA ” – South Africa

UPDATE:
We (=NICOLA initiators)plan to hold a two day workshop in Bryanston, Johannesburg on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st of October. We would like to invite you along to this two day workshop; participation is free.

The preliminary agenda for the two days will be:
Day 1
8:30-16:30                 Technical presentations and time for discussion

Day 2
9:00-16:00                 Setting up of NICOLA, establishment of key committees and         identification and prioritisation of key soil and groundwater issues in South Africa

RSVP:
10th October – if you plan to attend either one or both days
3rd October – if you would like to give a technical presentation.

If you are interested in participating in this two day workshop – either as a presenter of delegate – please contact either John Kidd or Danie Gous. Once you have registered your interest we will send out more information.

– Brasil
Beginning in 2013, a group of industry, service providers and other interested parties began discussions to consider the formation of this group, to be modeled on NICOLE Europe.

Those involved to date include the following: Angel Ambiental, Aragon, Arcadis, CH2MHILL, Clariant, Conam, Concre-s, CSN, CPEA, DuPont, Ekos Brasil, ERM, Philips, Santander, Solvay-Rhodia, Tratch Mundi, URS and Waterloo.

The nearly 30 members have thus resolved to launch this group at EKOS Brasil, an international remediation and contaminated areas revitalization seminar, which will be held on October 1st and 2nd, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil. This seminar is announced at the event session. If you are interested in the network development in Brazil, please contact Suzana Kraus. 

UPDATE:
On October 2nd in Sao Paulo, EKOS organised a conference at which Olivier Maurer (CH2M HILL Environment and Nuclear Market/ Former SG Member) held a presentation of NICOLE to raise the attention in Brasil. He talked about the NICOLE structure and activities, including, of course, the workshops, and other benefits for members

Scoping study 

Under suggestion of FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and with the support of the EU, in December 2013 the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2015 as the ‘International Year of Soils’ (IYS) and 5 December of each year as the ‘World Soil Day’ (WSD) (see UNGA resolution).

In order to find out what kind of awareness-raising activities and events could be organised or co-organised by the European Commission to mark the IYS, a scoping study has been prepared on behalf of the Environment Directorate-General of the Commission.

Please click here to read the entire content.

Publication from European Commission

The European Commission published two communications with potential impacts on our core business :
 
– Environment/industrial policy: Live and work in better buildings
 
– The package “circular economy” 
 
– As part of the circular economy package, the Commission also adopted a legislative proposal to review recycling and other waste-related targets in the EU and annex.

Events