The company behind plans to build a waste incinerator in Shrewsbury today ruled out other sites in Shropshire after alternatives were suggested by councillors.
Veolia Environmental Services, the contractors for Shropshire Waste Partnership, said the proposed site at Battlefield was the most suitable and proposals to site it at Ironbridge power station were not appropriate as it is not available for at least five years.
This week Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough councillor Tim Barker suggested the power station as the ideal home for the burner.
The station is due to close in five or six years and owners E-on’s current plan is to demolish the buildings.
Other suggestions have
“Wrekin decided to pull out of the waste partnership two or three years ago.”
Veolia spokeswoman Catherine Slaytor, said: “Various available sites were considered during the scoping exercise, including the recently closed sugar beet factory at Allscott.
“The Ironbridge location was not included as the site is not available for at least five years and a delay of such length would incur landfill penalties from 2013.
“The Battlefield location is close to where the majority of waste is generated in the Shropshire Waste Partnership area and is central to other areas of the county, unlike the Ironbridge site.”
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Can Veolia please list the epidemiological studies for health effects due to incinerators that they’ve examined?
When this question was posed to them at a recent liaison meeting, they replied:
“We have used the widely reported, respected and reviewed studies that provide exposure-effect relationships for PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and SO2 in respect of mortality and morbidity.”
Please name the studies Veoila and while you’re about it, why not e-mail your list of studies that you seem so reluctant to identify to the Ecolgist’s edictor, Pat Thomas, who included one of my letters on page 81 of the November 2008 issue. Veolia is named in my Ecologist letter – just as you were named in my Shropshire Star letter yesterday.
I’m calling your bluff Veolia. The ONS infant mortality data is stacked against you such that it’s impossible for any incinerator operator or lobbyist to assert that emissions from incinerators are not causing harm.
Why don’t you go for plasma gasification like Veolia Environmental Services are in the US?
New gasification facilities to convert chemical waste into energy
10-NOV-2008
Lakeside Energy has gone into partnership will newly formed company InEnTec LLC to enable construction of large-scale Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM™) gasification facilities which will convert chemical residuals and hazardous waste into useful chemical products.
Dow Corning Corporation has signed a 10-year contract with InEnTec to convert chlorinated organic residuals into aqueous hydrogen chloride and clean synthesis gas. The first facility will be located at Dow Corning’s Midland, Michigan facility and the output will be reused there. Construction work will begin before the end of the year and the plant will be operated for InEnTec by Veolia Environmental Services Technical Solutions.
‘Chemical process industries are recognizing the value of sustainability strategies and are seeking technologies that can minimize their environmental footprint and recover value from their waste streams that historically have been a cost burden to them,’ says Lakeside Energy’s CEO, William Johnson. He added, ‘The paradigm shift from disposal of chemical wastes to their sustainable reuse as a chemical feedstock with InEnTec PEM™ technology represents a major breakthrough for chemical companies.’
http://www.waste-management-world.com/display_article/344870/123/ARTCL/none/WTENE/1/New-gasification-facilities-to-convert-chemical-waste-into-energy/
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I thought there would be a let-out clause.
So its TWO incinerators built on green field sites?
Good bit of planning?
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the battlefield site is unacceptable. it will affect several villages north of shrewsbury and with a northerly wnd the town of shrewsbury will be in line. this is a monstrous suggestion, which should be repelled at all costs
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I have changed my name because you seem not to have considered my ‘have your say’ under wiggy, though you print ‘devon salopian’, who may well be my old friend Dave?
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Michael, its not as simple as saying show me the evidince that there is no impact. How do you prove something that dosnt happen, especially for something as complicated as human health.
Its like saying prove to me that the Loch ness monster doesnt exisit. you could spend millions searching and trawling and even once you come to your conclusion that nope, nothing there, people are still going to question you.
Im guessing the evidence they refered to is the DEFRA study that investigated the health effects of waste managment. Theres stacks of info on it, and there is a formal position from the health protection agency, so calling their bluff will be interesting.
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worth waiting 5 years for buildwas power station. by then new technology would make it a greener burn of rubbish and still produce power?
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been using that time machine again have you devon.
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