매릴랜드 대학(University of Maryland)이 효율성을 높이기 위해 발표한 새로운 보고서에 따르면, 체사피크만(Chesapeake Bay)의 정화를 위해 EPA(미국 환경보호청)가 위임한 오염 감소에 따른 자금 조달 시장 기반의 접근 방식을 권장하고, Bion 환경기술의 농업처리방식 사용을 긍정적으로 검토하고 있다.

 

매릴랜드 대학의 환경 금융센터에 의해 제작된 체사피크만 복원과 관련된 재무전략 최종보고서는 체사피크만의 보호와 정화를 위해 연방정부가 의무적으로 요구사항을 구현하는 비용 및 규모에 초점을 맞췄으며, 보고서의 시리즈 중 두 번째에 해당한다.

 

 

 

A new report published by the University of Maryland (UOM) calls for a more efficient, market-based approach to financing pollution reductions mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and also affirms the uses of agricultural treatments from Bion Environmental Technologies.

 

Produced by UOM's Environmental Finance Center, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Restoration Financing Strategy Final Report is the second in a series of reports focused on the scale and cost of implementing federally-mandated requirements to clean up and protect Chesapeake Bay. The report analyzes how state-based financing and revenue resources can be most efficiently and effectively invested in Bay restoration and water conservation activities.

 

The conclusion of the report is a call for harnessing private technology and innovation, such as that pioneered by Bion, to provide incentives for public benefits. "By changing the foundation of how public resources are invested, the state is in a position to not only achieve pollution reduction targets, but to do so in the most cost-effective way possible," the report states.

 

Livestock waste is acknowledged as one of the largest sources of excess nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. By using livestock waste treatment solutions like Bion's, states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed can provide large-scale reductions at dramatically lower costs than other sectors, such as municipal wastewater treatment and stormwater.

 

Bion's technology is approved to generate verified nutrient reductions from livestock waste that can be used as a qualified offset to EPA nutrient reduction mandates. Bion proposes to replace stormwater reduction mandates that carry high costs and relatively low benefits to taxpayers and municipalities with low-cost agricultural solutions that yield high environmental benefits in the treatment of waste from livestock and poultry.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2015년 6월 26일]