According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
15.1. After reinstating British national control, UKIP would review the role of the existing governmental agencies concerned with all aspects of air quality, pollution and environmental hazard. We would ensure that there are enough people in the field to monitor and enforce essential environmental protection.
Chemical hazards must be managed in accordance with internationally recognised standards, and we would remedy the harmful effects of the EU directive on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), which entered into force in June 2007 and which UKIP would repeal. This highly bureaucratic system makes it difficult for small chemical companies to compete, so that it becomes more attractive for companies to move their operations outside the EU.
15.2 UKIP would review the role of the Environment Agency (for England and Wales, and the equivalent bodies covering Scotland and Northern Ireland), and other relevant bodies, in order to clarify responsibility for all rivers and watercourses in relation to the prevention of flooding and the management of flooding incidents. We would direct adequate funding to strengthening flood defences (coastal and inland), including funding from saved EU membership costs.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Independence Party’s Pollution, Hazards and Flood Control policies in the comments below?