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MP in talks over incinerator
Friday 6th February 2009, 2:50PM GMT.
Shrewsbury’s MP is to hold talks with an Environment Agency boss in a bid to halt plans for a controversial multi-million pound incinerator in the town.
MP Daniel Kawczynski said he was organising a meeting with the agency’s area manager Paul Tullett as soon as possible.
He said that he would be presenting Mr Tullett with an 80-page dossier containing information outlining why the development of an incinerator should not go ahead.
Mr Kawczynski said that even if the new unitary council approved the £60 million incinerator at Battlefield the agency could still refuse to award Veolia Environmental Services, the company behind the plans, a permit.
The Conservative MP said that he had received a letter from Mr Tullett offering to meet him at his constituency office in Shrewsbury to discuss the issues surrounding the proposed burner and the agency’s powers.
Mr Kawczynski said Mr Tullet was noting “with interest” the rise in profile of the Energy From Waste Facility at Battlefield.
He said that the agency was responsible for granting the environmental permit to Veolia, without which it would not be able to operate.
Mr Kawczynski added that the agency was also able to impose additional controls which include the scrutiny of emissions from the site.
He said: “The Environment Agency can prevent this facility from going ahead even if the unitary authority gives it planning permission. So that is a very important safety caveat and I will certainly be conveying to the agency a strong request to withhold a permit.
“I am putting the finishing touches on a very large report, an 80-page document I have put together over the last year about this incinerator.”
Mr Kawczynski said he believed the permit should not be granted because the incinerator did not comply with the regulations.
But Veolia bosses say the development would be safe and would create many local jobs during both the construction of the site and when it was opened.
By Russell Roberts
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good on him
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As if Veolia would propose an incinerator that does not meet permitting regulations. Another shameless attempt to vote grab by Danny methinks.
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good on you dan, show them labour is nt working, whatever the government tries on waste is a joke,look at all the money they spend on recycling and we know it all goes to china, its just a typical loony leftie job creation scheme, we dont need the french to build us a burner, bring back weekly bin day i say and you will only get that with a Conservative government
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Tory boy ~ It is OK then if we bury it all in your back garden?
Landfill is scarce so recycling is not a gimmick, it is a neccessity. Idiots demanding a weekly bin collection tend to fall into 2 categories ~ They are either stupid or lazy. Which one are you?
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I don’t care about weekly collections, am very happy to recycle and re-use where possible.
What I don’t want is for myself and my children, family and friends to have to breathe in unknown pollutants and an unknown risk to our future health from a facility which should not be necessary should we all recycle and compost effectively.
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NUTTER its all safe
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im a tax payer for goodness sake, one who pays for a weekly collection, they can give me my money back or do a proper job i say, its all becuause of diktats from brussels you know, any government or council worth their salt would stand up for the british way of life, including weekly bin day
when we get back in we will bring back weekly bin day for shropshires over taxed people and cut taxes by getting rid of european regulations
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I look forward to seeing the result of Mr Kawczynski’s opposition to the incinerator.
I hope that Mr Kawczynski will show his 80-page booklet to his fellow Conservative colleagues in the European Parliament, who voted to promote what he now opposes.
On Tuesday 13th February 2007 Conservative MEPs voted to PROMOTE INCINERATION as part of the EU-wide Waste Framework Directive.
Conservative MEP Caroline Jackson, who was a strong proponent of incineration in the European Parliament was nominated by Friends of the Earth Europe for a “worst EU lobbying award” in the category “worst conflict of interest” due to her dual roles: voting through the EU Waste Framework Directive while working as an advisor to waste company Shanks.
It would be great if Mr Kawczynski could encourage Ms Jackson to read his 80-page booklet.
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May I also make it crystal clear that I support Mr Kawczynski on this issue, and am glad that he is responding to voters’ concerns in this way.
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What do contributors think of a bio-digester instead: http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/11/03/county-bio-firm-in-takeover-deal/
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i dont like the incinerator because it will cap recycling without it we’d be aiming for 60-70% recycling rate, with it we can give up in the 50′s – very unambitious for such a leafy, middle class area
come on shrewsbury reject the incinerator lets go for 70% recycling like they do in belguim
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i dont care abour recycling or burning it i just want it picked up once a week like i pay for
if it wasnt for the EU we would still have weekly bin day, we must stand up for britain and get out of these treaties and regulations which burden us with red tape
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what id like to see is a full cost benefit analysis of this, landfill is artificially expensive these days because of EU rules and taxes, still even with these taxes its cheaper than incineration though, it should be published openly so we can see what OUR money is going on, do not trust the council to get the best value option, they are likely to do what is easiest for them not what is best for the tax payers of shropshire, incineration can cost over £130 per tonne, landfill only £40 per tonne, its INSANE to propose burning this stuff when its not even hazardous
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we should be concerned about the dioxins as much as anything, there are schools, farms, houses, all sorts of vulnerable recptors there, you cannot be serious about pumping dioxins all over them, its an insane experiment in toxicology
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im concerned about the visual impact too , veiw from haughmond hill will be awful,
the main objection though i ave is strategically its not neccesary, theres a massive one bening built near staffs border, environmentally its insane when they are buildign one far more greener (using Combined heat and power and more advanced filtering technology) just 13 miles away in telford. they will be hauling rubbish from buildwas, bridgnorth, wrokwardine, much wenlock etc to burn in shrewsbry when they could send it to telford where it would actually be put to some good (making heat and green electricity)
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id like the MP to communicate my view and that of my friends that energy from waste , is a waste of energy, we want more recycling which saves squllions of Gigawatts more energy than any power plant can ever produce
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typical politician – all the evidence says energy from rubbish is harmless but he wants to get attention and votes
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im not sure your right marcus
will the fumes reach wem? i guess it depends on the wind, i think if it were TRULY safe they would build it in the middle of shrewsbury not on the edge, let them pipe the fumes into their offices to PROVE they are safe i say, good for Daniel K for addressing this issues he has my support to protest against this health hazard
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The fumes from Sleap Farm incinerator have been reaching Wem
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any PFI deal is bad for the taxpayer, we should look at the cost and profit here in detail, it is not in the public interest to pay a foreign firm to burn our rubbish when we have huges empty quarries locally and many other better still ways to deal with it
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bit of telford every where
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anything Dan can do against the council is good, but he should be campaigning like our conservative chairman erik pickles to bring back weekly bin day for shropshire ASAP, come on dan, lets get labour out and bring back weekly bin day so i dont have to bother cleaning all my backed been tins for the lazy council (who then sell them for cash)
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its a scandal that there isnt a full health impact assessment study done and the cumulative impacts of this with increasing vehicle traffic, the plant in Telford, increased use of wood burning stoves, more deisel than petrol vehicles, industrial processes on the enterprise park like solvent based printing and other sources of air pollution need to be fully considered not just the application itself in isolation because there are synergestic and complex cumulative effects of loading the air and soil with pollutants
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shoking
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we will bring back weekly bin day, labour only doing it fortnightly, labour isnt working, get rid of brown and we’ll pick your bin up every week
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its poison for our children and we dont want it in harlescott or anywhere
i would ike to the see the council collect unlimited quantities of garden waste again though
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I take it Telford has a Labour led council, then, and this Consevative MP is opposing it? There’s a thing, in Gloucester we have a Labour MP opposing the alleged efforts of a Tory controlled council to build an incinerator.
Does any politician ever object to what their own party is doing?
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