Newport incinerator plans look to be finished (From South Wales Argus)
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Newport incinerator plans look to be finished
1:10pm Friday 1st February 2013 in News
Newport incinerator plans look to be finished
VEOLIA looks all but out of the running for a multi-million project to burn waste from five Gwent authorities at Llanwern Steelworks.
Prosiect Gwyrdd has announced that it recommends that Viridor, which is is building an incinerator in Cardiff, is the preferred bidder for the scheme.
The decision has to be ratified by the five authorities, including Newport, Monmouthshire and Caerphilly, that are behind the non-recyclable waste plan.
If it goes ahead it will mean that thousands of tonnes of waste from the three Gwent authorities will be burned in Cardiff rather than buried.
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Manley
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4:48pm Fri 1 Feb 13
Magor
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4:49pm Fri 1 Feb 13
whatintheworld
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5:01pm Fri 1 Feb 13
godobe
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5:22pm Fri 1 Feb 13
Bobevans
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8:45am Sat 2 Feb 13
godobe wrote:Incorrect. They are extreamly efficient and produce almost zero emissions. THey produce far less poultion then landfill and conventional power stations such as Uskmouth. THey also reduce lorry and duscart movement. If it had been located in Newport the waste could have been taking straight to the incinerator
When the wind blows in Newport's direction we are going to get some serious fallout!
47alan47
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9:10am Sat 2 Feb 13
Ian MacKinlay
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2:52am Sun 3 Feb 13
"A preposterous buffoon".
I could not have put it better myself Mr Flynn.
Of course, Mr Berco did not like it.
You can read it all here.
http://www.publicati
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Oral Answers to Questions
Energy and Climate Change.
House of Commons. Thursday 31 January 2013. Column1031.
Topical Questions.
T5. Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab):
In 1976, the Flowers commission said that it would be irresponsible to proceed with generating electricity from nuclear power without a policy on the disposal of waste. The policy then was to dig a hole and bury the waste in it. The policy now is to do the same thing, but we no longer have a hole since Cumbria county council turned down the planning permission yesterday. Will this preposterous buffoon of a Minister of State try to answer one question and say whether it is still irresponsible to proceed without a solution to deal with the waste?
Limestonecowboy
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3:31pm Sun 3 Feb 13
lowandhardandinthecoUnforunately should you be concerned with 'product of combustion' then the safest area will be from the direction of the prevailing weather which coming from the west means most vunerable will be the areas east of Cardiff - Newport!
rner wrote:
Let Cardiff have it, after all they've got everything else : just like London is for England, Cardiff is like a cancer at the heart of the nation that attracts all the investment. With any luck they'll get the dioxins and other toxic byproducts of the combustion falling on the Senedd as well to help balance the deal. It's truly shocking the way Cardiff gets every penny of new money in South Wales.
lowandhardandinthecorner says...
4:18pm Fri 1 Feb 13
With any luck they'll get the dioxins and other toxic byproducts of the combustion falling on the Senedd as well to help balance the deal.
It's truly shocking the way Cardiff gets every penny of new money in South Wales.