Alkali Environmental Consultants
James Edmondson
Divisional Director — Stacks North
Divisional Director for Stacks North at Alkali with 20+ years' experience in MCERTS stack emissions monitoring, industrial compliance and CEMS quality assurance across UK and international regulated sectors.
About James
James is Divisional Director, Stacks North at Alkali Environmental Consultants, with more than 20 years' experience in MCERTS stack emissions monitoring, industrial emissions compliance and environmental reporting across regulated industrial sectors throughout the UK and internationally.
Fully MCERTS Level 2 qualified with all technical endorsements, he specialises in industrial emissions monitoring, Environment Agency compliance testing and advanced Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) quality assurance support, including QAL2 and Annual Surveillance Tests (AST) under BS EN 14181 requirements.
Over his career he has delivered compliance monitoring, investigatory monitoring and technical emissions surveys across a wide range of complex industrial and Part A Environment Agency permitted installations. Sector experience includes Energy from Waste (EfW), waste management, metals and foundry operations, aggregates, industrial manufacturing and food production facilities.
He has extensive hands on experience operating advanced stack emissions monitoring instrumentation, including Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) analysers and associated systems used for the measurement and quantification of regulated pollutants and combustion gases, and remains actively engaged with developments in stack testing methodologies, emissions legislation and monitoring technologies across the environmental compliance sector.
Earlier in his career he also held QSTI (Qualified Source Testing Individual) accreditation, delivering US EPA Part 60 and Part 75 Relative Accuracy Test Audit (RATA) programmes during a period working in the Middle East. Alongside technical testing activities, he also worked in an environmental regulatory role, giving him practical insight into emissions compliance from both operator and regulator perspectives.
At Alkali he leads the Stacks North division across technical delivery, emissions monitoring operations and client support, working closely with industrial operators, environmental managers and permit holders to deliver accurate, regulator ready emissions data and defensible technical reporting.
His focus is helping clients manage environmental compliance obligations confidently through technically robust monitoring, responsive project delivery and practical interpretation of emissions monitoring results against permit and regulatory requirements.
