Operators may be charged for reporting environmental information to regulators

All operators on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) may soon have to pay to report their energy, emissions, waste and chemical data to the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) via the Environmental Emissions Monitoring System (EEMS), BMT Cordah Ltd, a leading independent environmental consultancy firm, has warned.

Operators are legally required to submit this information to the DECC. Some of this data, along with data from onshore industrial installations, is sent to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and later published on the internet as part of the UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register http://prtr.defra.gov.uk/