The Scottish Environment Protection Agency, in addition to other public agencies, is jointly responsible for the regulation of ExxonMobil Chemical Limited and Shell UK Limited at Mossmorran.
This brief update has been issued to let you know that historical flaring data has been added to SEPA’s dedicated Mossmorran hub at www.sepa.org.uk/mossmorran
Both the Fife Ethylene Plant and Fife Natural Gas Liquids plant at Mossmorran are required by SEPA to report annually the amount of flaring that occurred during the year at both sites.
Data for the years 2008 to 2016 has now been added to the FAQs section of the Mossmorran hub under ‘How often do plants flare?’
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Further information
SEPA is committed to keeping local communities around Mossmorran informed. Our recent newsletter is available on SEPA’s dedicated Mossmorran hub at www.sepa.org.uk/mossmorran. This provides the latest update on our activities and the stages of the investigation following the recent flaring incident in June. We’re working hard to provide a further update on this as quickly as possible.
The Mossmorran hub also contains information on common questions including:
- The role of SEPA, the Health and Safety Executive, Health Protection Scotland and Fife Council.
- Information related to monitoring activity.
- Why the flaring occurs.
- What the constituents of the flare are.
- What restrictions are applied.
- Why smoke can be produced.
- Health impacts and other local factors.
For further questions, please email community@sepa.org.uk – this account is monitored weekdays during office hours only.
Thank you, and remember SEPA’s 24 Hour Pollution Hotline is available on 0800 807 060 and is available to report environmental incidents, with information on how and what to report at www.sepa.org.uk/contact/
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