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EFG advice to European Institutions:
EFG Panels of Experts documents.
By
EurGeol Dr Isabel Fernandez
EFG Office Director
ISSUES FOR GEOLOGISTS IN 21ST CENTURY - MITIGATION OF
MAN'S INFLUENCE AND SERVING SOCIETY'S NEEDS
9/08/2008
33IGC-WSS21
How can we comunicate Geology at Policy level?
By Advice Documents
By European Worshops and Conferences
By Stand exhitions
By European Projects
How can we ensure a good qualitity contribution at Political level?
By experts on the diferent Geology activities
INDEX
1. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
2. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON GEOTHERMAL ENERGY & CO2 SEQUESTRATION
3. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON HYDROGEOLOGY
4. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON NATURAL HAZARDS & CLIMATE CHANGE
5. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON SOIL PROTECTION AND GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
6. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON RESOURCES AND RESERVES - OIL AND GAS
7. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON RESOURCES AND RESERVES - MINERALS AND
THEIR SUSTAINABLE USE
8. PANEL OF EXPERTS ON ENGINEERING GEOLOGY IN EUROPE
TASK DESCRIPTION OF EFG WORKING GROUPS / EXPERT PANELS
•To provide high quality advice and information to the European Commission, to the
European Parliament, to international NGO’s and to global professional associations
•To take every opportunity to emphasize the importance of geology to society, the
benefits of incorporating geological advice and to promote the importance of the geoscientific profession.
•To participate in EC congresses, to participate in EC working groups and to attend EC
consultation meetings
•To respond to relevant issues in the press and to those items on the European
Commission and European Parliament agenda
• The participation of experts is on a voluntary basis. The advantage for the participating
experts is their active involvement in a European and/or worldwide network of experts
with the same specialty
Experts are requested to provide some information about their expertise.
• Name and contact details.
• Company/Institute/Organisation.
• Academic qualifications.
• Area of expertise, incl. possible subdivision (e.g. natural hazards; floods expert).
• Area of interest.
• Years of relevant experience.
• Involvement in other networks.
• Any other relevant information.
Information about EFG PE activity
www.eurogeologists.eu/group of experts
Coordinator
Number of experts
Countries represented in the panel
Background
Developed activity
Current activity
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Advice Document to the European Commission on Environmental Impact Assessment
Implementation and Practice,May 2003
 Implementing European Directives 85/337/EC and 97/11/EC on Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA)
To improve the quality of the EIA, EFG recommends:
· The current EU Legislation needs to be amended to specifically include geology
in the list of issues to be addressed in an EIA and not to have it inferred as it is
currently presented.
· The geology section of the EIA must be completed by a "competent person" i.e. a
professional geologist.
· The review / appraisal of EIA needs to be undertaken by suitably qualified and
experienced professionals. To achieve this each agency responsible for reviewing
EIA should either employ a professional geologist, or have access to professional
geological advice.
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON GEOTHERMAL ENERGY & CO2 SEQUESTRATION
EFG Stand: Geology and Sustainable Energy, European Commission - February meetings
2008
EFG Geothermal Usage Poster, 2008
Position paper about Carbon Capture and geological Storage, January 2008
Press release about a Directive on the promotion of the use of renewable energy sources,
January 2008
Poster Geothermal Resources in Europe, January 2008
Poster: CO2 Capture and Storage, January 2008
Presentation from the European Federation of Geologists: A Capacity to Promote
Geothermal Energy, ENGINE event, February 2006
Geoscientific recommendations regarding Geothermal Energy to be considered in the
Seventh Framework Programme 2007 – 2013, April 2006
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
•EU Strategy plan for Energy
Technology, 22 November 2007
•Renewal Energy Directive, January
2008
In relation to sustainable development, the share
of renewable is expected to reach a third of the
consumption by 2050. Geologists have a
particular relevance to the development of
geothermal energy in Europe.
Press release on the prometion of the use of renewable energy
Our associations, representing the European geothermal
industry, the European Geological Surveys and the European
geologists welcome the proposal tabled on 23/01/08 by the
European Commission for a Directive on the promotion of the
use of renewable energy sources.
This proposal sets the framework to achieve the target of a 20% share
of renewable energy sources in the final energy consumption by 2020.
The attainment of this target will require the use of the diverse
renewable non-fossil energy, sources, among which geothermal
energy.
Our associations jointly call for some improvements of the Directive
proposal:
•Definition of geothermal energy must include
•Specific criteria for the certification of shallow geothermal
installers.
Technologies for geothermal use
power plant
District Heating Network
borehole heat exchangers
Enhance Geothermal System
Geothermal Power
Today, geothermal power plants
exist on all continents, at any
place were reservoirs of steam or
hot water can be found.
The concept of Enhanced
Geothermal Systems is going to
add a tremendous increase to
the potential.
Deep and Directly
The earth is full of energy !
Virtually any temperature level in
the underground can be used
directly, for instance with deep
boreholes. Only a small fraction
of the resources is used
currently.
Shallow Geothermal
Every temperature level in the
underground can be used for
geothermal energy, even if this
means only ca. 3-15 °C, as usual
in the shallow underground in
European climate. Cooling can
be supplied as well as heating.
Geothermal energy is energy stored in the form of heat below the earth’s surface.
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON CO2 SEQUESTRATION
Position Paper on Carbon Capture and
geological Storage
The European Federation of Geologists (EFG), and especially its
panel of experts on Geothermal Energy and Carbon Capture and
Storage, emphasizes that Carbon Capture and geological Storage
(CCS) should be strongly promoted, as it is an important and direct
path towards a fully sustainable energy future.
•EFG strongly advocates renewable and sustainable energy
production, including geothermal energy, as well as the need for
increasing energy efficiency.
•Since it will take time to make our economies independent of fossil
carbon sources, EFG states that the technology of Carbon Capture
and geological Storage is necessary for using these resources in
the most sustainable and climate friendly way.
One of the possibilities to halt or reverse anthropogenic
warming is CO2 capture and storage in underground
reservoirs.
Storage in saline aquifer
EOR
Enhanced Oil Recovery
CH4
Coal
Depleted oil & gas fields
Oil
ECBM
Enhanced CoalBed Methane
Aquifer
Natural gas
To achieve maximum effect, loops should be created between sources (CO
emitters) and sinks (storage reservoirs).
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON NATURAL HAZARDS & CLIMATE CHANGE
•International geohazards conference: European Federation of
Geologists and “Consiglio Nazionale dei Geologi d’Italia” (Italian
National Council of Geologists), May 2007
•Geoscientific recommendations regarding natural hazards to be
considered in the Seventh Framework Programme 2007 – 2013,
March 2006
•Geo-scientific recommendations for the Floods Directive, September
2005
•Advice Document to the European Commission on Reducing the risk
from natural hazards, March 2005
•Geo-scientific Manifesto on Civil Protection against Natural Hazards,
presented in the consultation meeting, organized by the European
Commission, 8th February 2005, Brussels
•EFG Advice Document to the European Commission on Civil
Protection and Natural Hazards, March 2003
.
Geo-scientific Manifesto on Civil Protection against Natural Hazards,
8th February 2005, Brussels
.
Supported by:
• European Federation of Geologists
• EuroGeoSurveys
• International Association of Engineering Geology
• European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
• International Union of Geological Sciences
• World Geologists
We recommend to:
•Fully integrate Geology in land-use planning to avoid unnecessary
disasters
•Install early warning systems (geo-indicators) in areas at risk
•Educate society to improve the understanding of mechanisms behind
natural hazards
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON SOIL PROTECTION AND GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE
EFG Amendments for proposal of Directive on Soil Protection, COM (2006) 232, 21
February 2007
EU Manifesto on Earth Heritage and Geodiversity, November 2004, in collaboration with
IGU, IUGS, EUCC, ECSSS, IAG, IUSS, and many national and European organizations
related to Geoheritage.
European Union Soil Thematic Strategy Geodiversity and Geoheritage as features of Soil
Protection, February 2004
EU Manifesto on Earth Heritage and Geodiversity
Supported by 11 organizations
•Earth heritage for our present and our future
•Europe has outstanding examples of earth heritage
and geodiversity
•Earth heritage and geodiversity create opportunities
for education, recreation and tourism, and increase
the quality of life in rural areas and cities
•The task of the EU:“safeguarding by development,
safeguarding by protection”
•The EU soil strategy is the instrument to realize
these goals!
PANEL OF EXPERTS ON MINERALS AND THEIR SUSTAINABLE USE
EFG Position Statement on European Technology Platform Sustainable Mineral Resources (ETPSMR), March
2006
EFG Position Statement on Mineral Resources Policy and Management in Europe, March 2006
The qualified person concept EFG submission, with respect to the Directive of the European Parliament and of
the Council on the management of waste from the extractive industries, January 2004
An Introduction to the Code for Reporting of Mineral Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Reserves,
October 2001
Code for reporting of Mineral Exploration Results, Mineral resources and mineral reserves, (The reporting
Code), October 2001
EFG Position Statement on
MINERAL RESOURCE POLICY AND MANAGMENT IN EUROPE
Aims: to reduce EU exposedness to outside sources; to discover,
delineate, book, maintain a strategic resource base for the case of
non-access to import resources.
Balance between rational exploitation of resources and nature
conservation
Legal harmonization in the EU of environmental protection and
mining legislation
Contribute to the development of best practice standards in
professional practice and to thus ensure the confidence of civil
society in both the profession and its actions.
EFG Stand in the Green Week 2003: Contribution
of the Earth Sciences to the main political areas of the Environment
“Why Society Needs Geologists”
Geology and Water
Geology and Natural Hazards
Geology and Climate Change
Stand 1 on the European Commission’s Green Week 2006:
"Geodiversity = Biodiversity "
EFG wanted to demonstrate through this stand that
biodiversity has always had a natural geological basis.
There are clear relational paths between geodynamic
and biodynamic phenomena, within internal as well as
external processes
“soil is part of a system, a product of climate, geology,
topography, vegetation and landuse”
Stand 1 on the European Commission’s Green Week 2007:
"Geology and Environmental Change"
The role of geology in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs): To develop a
comprehensive view of the environmental impact of a project we need to understand the
geology of the site. Geological study by a professional geologist is therefore an important
component of EIAs.
The role of geology in predicting future climate change: Geological records of past climate
change. Studying and understanding these geological records helps us to differentiate between
natural and man-made effects on climate – which is vital if predictions of future climate changes
are to be reliable.
EFG Stand in the European Union Sustainable Energy Week, EUSEW
28 January –1 February 2008, European Commission, Brussels
•Geothermal Resources in
Europe
•CO2 Capture and Storage
EFG Stand in the Green Week 2008:
Geology at the service of the citizens
Green Week 2008 sesion on :
EUROPEAN GEOLOGY
IN THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF PLANET EARTH
The European Federation of Geologists
(EFG) in collaboration with International
Year of Planet Earth and EuroGeoSurveys the Association of the Geological Surveys of
Europe
EFG Worshops and Conferences
Multi-Country workshop on EU Legislation and Initiatives regarding Training and
Mobility of Professionals in the Field of Geology, Brussels, 26-27 October 2005
Multi-Country workshop on EU legislation and best practices in geology for
sustainable regional development, Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 October 2006.
European Geohazards Conference in Rome, 25 May 2007
Multi-Country workshop on EU legislation and new practices in geodiversity for
a sustainable development of the regions, Rumania, October 2007
Multi-Country workshop on Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, changing processes
and sustainable management of the low coasts of the Baltic states and Poland,
Palanga, Lithuanian, April 2008
International Conference on Geology and Water Management: Resources,
Risks and Regulations, Athen, 30th May, 2008
European Project:Terrafirma
•Pan-European Ground Monitoring
Information Service
•Sponsored by ESA and the EC
•Using radar satellites and processing
techniques
•To reveal movements of 1 mm/year
•With a view to improve land-use planning,
engineering , and loss reduction in relation
to subsidence, landslides, mines,
tunneling, earthquake vulnerability
European Project:Geotrainet
THE COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
•Fostering energy efficiency and the rational use
of energy sources
•Promoting new and renewable energy sources
and energy diversification
•Promoting energy efficiency and new energy
sources in transport
European Project:Geotrainet
Geotrainet Project: Geo-Education for a sustainable geothermal heating
and cooling market
Objectives:
•Development of education and of appropriate training structures;
•Creation of a EU-wide certification scheme for both planners and
installers of GSHP
•Defining of and assistance in development of the necessary EU-wide
technical standards
•Dissemination of results through operation networks.
•Create new geothermal businesses and sustain a growing market
European Project:Geotrainet
Participants:
•European Federation of Geologists
•European Geothermal Energy Council
•Arsenal Research (Austria)
•BRGM (France)
•GT-Skills (Irlande)
•Romanian Geoexchange Society (Romania)
•Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
•Geotec, Lund University (Sweden)
•GREAT, University of Newcastle (UK)
Duration of the project: 30 months
Gracias
[email protected]
www.eurogeologists.eu