Liquefied Energy Gases in the UK: What Price Public Safety?

Sally M Macgill
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Sally M Macgill: School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England

Environment and Planning A, 1981, vol. 13, issue 3, 339-354

Abstract: Twelve serious inadequacies of hazard-control policy in the United Kingdom as it relates to liquefied energy gases (LEGs) are identified in this paper. These inadequacies are discussed against a background of the hazard properties of liquefied energy gases and associated hazard incidents (actual and potential), the growing scale on which these substances are handled, and with reference to large-scale liquefied energy gas facilities currently being developed in Fife, Scotland. It is argued that the hazards posed far outweigh the safety measures practiced.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1068/a130339

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