Incinerator will blight our lives

12:19pm Wednesday 10th October 2012 in Letters

SHAMBOLIC and secretive handling of rail bids has cost the taxpayers of England and Wales more than £40m already.

It’s not likely to be a one-off. Here in South East Wales the Prosiect Gwyrdd incinerator project displays the same secrecy, and naIve acceptance of assurances given by waste companies bidding for long-term public contracts. Civil servants who run Prosiect Gwyrdd are out of control. This so-called ‘green’ partnership is racking up huge bills which ratepayers of our five counties will have to meet for the next 25 years. What will we get ? Incinerators which destroy our recycling policy, risk our health and pump out greenhouse gas. Let’s hope our elected councillors, AMs and MPs can stop this project before it ruins our health, environment and our local finances.

Rob Hepworth, Chair, Stop Newport & Monmouthshire Incinerator Campaign

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pinpong says...
6:56pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Yet more bad news for Newport. I suppose you could put it by the gypsy camp. Bobby Bright is killing Newport. Look at what he is doing

Gypsy Camps
Incinerators
City Centre practically closed down
Cutting council meetings
Stopping councillors asking questions
How do i know all this. I have read it in the argus over the past couple of weeks.
Well done Argus at least you are keeping us up to date on this crappy labour council

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max wallis says...
7:52pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Fortunately Bob Bright and all parties on the planning committee crashed Veolia's plans for a waste incinerator at Llanwern.
But they should be crashing the whole Prosiect Gwyrdd plan to commit Newport and 4 other Councils to pay Viridor's incinerator in Cardiff to incinerate huge tonnages of waste for the next 25 years. They (we) will have to pay Viridor the Guaranteed Annual Minimum Payment, even if Newport is successful in waste reduction and maximising recycling under adopted policies.
Labour's excuse is that the previous council signed a Joint Working Agreement with Cardiff etc. But they can easily change the details, eg. agree a far smaller tonnages/payment.
And they can expose the trickery of the whole Prosiect Gwyrdd stupidity.

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Haydn CJ says...
10:54pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Does it really have to be 25 years? It seems lunacy to make such a large capital investment in the current financial climate. Shorter term, smaller capital alternatives are available such as the MBT plant at Avonmouth. European incinerators are working below capacity, America has long since stopped building them and even the Mayor of New York has excluded incinerators from consideration when seeking refuse solutions. In Northern Ireland, the minister has refused planning permission for one in Belfast, Scotland debated it last month but Wales is still ploughing on. Why?

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