Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski is to hold talks with waste bosses to highlight the concerns of residents about the possibility of an incinerator being built on the edge of the town.
He said there were concerns about Veolia’s proposals for an incinerator to be built at Battlefield.
The company is hoping to build the energy recovery facility as part of a multi-million pound waste contract with the Shropshire Waste Partnership.
It is hoping to be able to submit a planning application this month. If that is successful the facility would be completed by 2013.
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Mr Kawczynski said he would be meeting Jean-Dominique Mallet, the chief executive of Veolia, on January 19 at the House of Commons.
He added: “I have had a lot of concerns about the incinerator and am in the process of trying to get the Government to call it in but I am meeting the head of the company that is putting this plan together.
“I will be discussing with him the concerns of local residents from Harlescott and villages out of Shrewsbury that are downwind of this.”
A Veolia Environmental Services’ spokeswoman said of the meeting: “This will be an excellent opportunity to answer questions raised by his constituents, in addition to the planned public exhibitions about our forthcoming planning application which will be held at the Household Recycling Centre in Battlefield on January 15 and The Lantern Centre, Meadow Farm Drive, Shrewsbury on January 16 and 17.”
Meanwhile, Mr Kawczynski will also meet Vodafone chiefs at the House of Commons next week over proposals for a proposed mast in Copthorne.
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This proposed private meeting is a mistake.
Are Veolia going to say “Yes, our incinerators do harm health.” or “No, our incinerators don’t harm health.” and expect our MP to agree or disagree in the lobby or the canteen at the House of Commons where Dr Dick van Steenis and I met John McDonnell MP on the very same issue in Macrh 2004?
Mr McDonnell was appalled at the high birth defect rates for Hillingdon which had been published by ONS and he asked a series of Parliamentary Questions.
Mr McDonnell shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Hillingdon Borough has the 2nd-highest infant death rate in London for the 6-year period 2002-2007. London has 625 electoral wards and the ward with the highest infant death rate for 2002-2007 “just happens to be Eastcote & East Ruislip ward at the northern part of Hillindgon Borough and a short distance downwind of Hillingdon Hospital incineraotr whilst also downwind of Colnbrook incinerator and near to St Mark’s Hospital incinerator at Northwick Park.
There’s a large cluster of high infant death electoral wards in Harrow, Brent and Barnet and the above Hillindgon ward forms part of this cluster.
Unless MPs and the public see and understand the infant mortality data, there’s little hope for the Shrewsbury & Telford incinerators being cancelled in favour of the safer & cheaper system of plasma gasification.
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What was the outcome of this meeting?
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Has Veolia persuaded Mr Kawczynski that incinerators pose no harm to health?
I’d like to see the evidence of no harm if that’s so and I expect many others would also like to see it as the Health Protection Agency haven’t found it & neither has the Department of Health and neither has the London Health Observatory, nor the London Health Commission.
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