"In today's media environment, licence fees are a relic of a bygone age of regulation," he said.
The study was conducted under license from the Estonian Ministry of the Environment (Licence # 1 4.1/11/100, issued on 23rd March 2011), and the experiment was approved by the Committee of Animal Experiments at the Estonian Ministry of Agriculture (decision # 95, issued on 17th January 2012).
In England, for example, the non-departmental public body responsible for the protection of the environment, Natural England, issues licences for the release of non-native bumblebee subspecies.
The council also needs a marine licence from environment body Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and is concerned it may not get permission until after the bad winter weather has begun.
The company said it had been accepting low level radioactive waste from BNFL for many years under a special licence from the environment agency.
The federal court last week overturned approval of Adani's mining licence by the environment minister, Greg Hunt, who could not show he fully took into account advice on vulnerable snake and skink species impacted by the mine.
Every day Thames Water, under licence from the Environment Agency, pumps more than four million gallons out of the Kennet to supply homes and businesses in a process known as abstraction.
"We could no longer say something was waiting to happen, because it had happened". In the wake of the explosion and fire, the environment agency suspended CSG's licence to handle waste material on the site while it considered the plant's future.
The Environment Agency subsequently revoked Averies' licence.
Eglinton-based City Waste had its licence revoked by Environment Minister Alex Attwood.
