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Planning Application Update
Planning Application Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, OR SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11th November 2022\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Powerhouse Energy Group Plc\n \n \n \n (the \"Company\" or \"PHE\")\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Planning Application Update\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Powerhouse Energy Group Plc (AIM: PHE), a company pioneering integrated technology that converts non-recyclable waste into low carbon energy reports that a planning recorder has been appointed by the Scottish Government to review the planning permission granted for a hydrogen production facility at Rothesay Dock, West Dumbarton, as reported by PHE on 9 June 2022. The planning application was granted on the site owned by Peel Group, PHE's development partner.\n \n \n \n \n \n The recorder has been asked to consider\n the Scottish Government's position of no support for the development of further municipal waste incineration capacity in Scotland, how the development relates to t\n he waste hierarchy, the deposit return scheme, and a number of other matters related to the source of waste, incineration of the waste and use of the hydrogen produced.\n \n \n \n \n \n It should be noted that the PHE DMG\n â\n technology uses advanced conversion technologies known as pyrolysis and gasification and does not burn the waste feedstock.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keith Riley, Interim Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of PHE, commented:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"This is what is referred to as a \"call-in\" of the planning permission obtained by Peel. It is not yet known what the process will be from hereon. Any delay to implementation of the permission that this will cause will not impact the immediate business of PHE. Indeed, presents an excellent opportunity to clear up what is a lack of clarity in the regulations concerning the thermal treatment of wastes that use advanced thermal treatments to produce a synthetic gas from which other products are made.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"The call-in is related to the Scottish Government's moratorium on incineration and as such the Rothesay Dock ...