PRESSURE is being put on Health and Social Services to help clean up Guernsey by finally introducing its environmental pollution law.

The law was enacted in August 2006, but since then has been waiting for supplementary elements to bring it into force.

Part of it will help regulate waste activity by introducing licensing and monitoring that would assess activities – to ensure the environment is protected – and the effects of a site on neighbours.

Both the Public Services Department, as the Waste Authority, and Environment Department, which is in charge of waste policy, have written to Health to find out what is going on.

It now says the law should be in force within a year.

Several announcements anticipating its implementation have been made – for example, in May 2006, following residents’ complaints about the Pointes Lane sorting site, director of environmental health and pollution regulation John Cook said he hoped a commencement ordinance would be taken to the States ‘very shortly’.

Speaking at a Waste Authority meeting, Public Services minister Bernard Flouquet (pictured) said he would like to see the ordinance coming forward.