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Environmental Remediation
Environmental remediation is the process that
aims at correcting damages to the environment caused by various factors. There
are many different concepts and approaches to environmental remediation. Some
may remediate environmental damages to pristine conditions; others seek to
restore the environment to the condition prior to damage, to remove all visibly
detectable damage, or to restore ecological functioning.
Various types of technologies and methodologies may be applied to achieve the
specific environmental remediation objectives.
Within the UNCC, the concept applied was to achieve a restoration of ecological
functioning of the damages directly related to the Gulf War environment. It is
interesting to note that to achieve this objective, it was not deemed necessary
to remove obvious physical damages as the UNCC has suggested for the remediation
of the oil tarcrete areas without removing the tarcrete itself.
The remediation objective set in the presentation of the claims by Kuwait was
aimed at total physical removal of the tarcrete and treatment afterward.
The UNCC process involved the review of the environmental claims by a panel of
three commissioners who awarded compensation based on criteria and objectives
for environmental remediation as described in the Reports and Recommendations of
the F4 Panel. These objectives may not necessarily coincide with what would be
considered most appropriate under national, regional or even international
standards.
Kuwait NFP is interested in considering what would be deemed most appropriate
for full restoration of its environment by remediating the damages identified as
a result of full implementation of the Monitoring and Assessment Program,
keeping in mind that some award decisions had to be made on the basis of only
partially completed M&A projects. Implementation of the Kuwait Environmental
Remediation Program (KERP) can be based on more complete results and datasets.
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