Local authorities are set to get further powers to crack down on the sale of low quality smoky fu...
Nearly two years on, it seems the ban is being undermined by the sale of low-quality imports - mostly from Northern Ireland.“So, the extra particulates in smoky fuel are a particular cause of concern; they’re very, very dangerous - it’s
“Instead, they went a different route; they introduced a nationwide standard for the sale of smoky fuel - it had to reach a certain standard in terms of the particulate sulphur emissions in them.”The same standards for the manufacture and sale of fuel do not apply in Northern Ireland and, as a result, it has become cheaper to import such products from the North.
“It’s obviously the case that the fuels are imported during the summer time and then sold during the winter,” Ms O’Neill said.
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