DIPCITY VISITS LIEGE
[LOG: Liège, October 9] A number of speakers specialized in the material gave their views. They included: Mr. Namêche for (SPAQUE) the Public Society for Aid to the Quality of the Environment, who gave an overview of SPAQUE’s methodology; Mr. Dengis from the Scientific Institute for Public Service, who presented advances achieved by ISSEP in the Walloon area; the CEO of Arcelor Real Estate Belgium SA Mr. Codran, who informed those present about public-private partnerships in managing decontamination or rehabilitation of Arcelor sites in the phase of the close down of hot-roll steel in Liège; and, finally, Mr. Dubois of the Total petroleum company gave examples of recent decontamination projects in Belgium. This study day was extended by a visit to an Intradel plant concerned with waste material, situated in Liège, where everyone could look at the functioning of a new unit adding energy value, which will be operational in June 2009. The Port of Liège manages hundreds of hectares of sites on the waterways for business, private and public use and also has its own yachting harbor.
Within the context of the DIPCITY project supported by Europe’s Interreg III funding program, the Port of Liège invited its partners, the ports of Brussels, Lille and Paris, to participate in a round table on the issue of the decontamination of industrial wasteland. The environment and sustainable development are the current issues, and among these issues the problem of contaminated ground plays an important role, which is why the Port of Liège spent a day on the project.
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