Comments on: MP in talks over incinerator

By: Joe K

Joe K — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:11:09 +0000

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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By: Harlescott Salopian

Harlescott Salopian — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:35:24 +0000

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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By: Tory Boy

Tory Boy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:56:08 +0000

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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By: JOHN BOY

JOHN BOY — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:50:42 +0000

shoking

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By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:22:29 +0000

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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By: Tory Boy

Tory Boy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:40:11 +0000

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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By: MR J

MR J — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:21:28 +0000

bit of telford every where

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By: john thornicroft

john thornicroft — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:19:29 +0000

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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By: Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:54:44 +0000

The fumes from Sleap Farm incinerator have been reaching Wem

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By: peter from wem

peter from wem — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:51:02 +0000

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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By: marcus from wem

marcus from wem — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:50:48 +0000

typical politician – all the evidence says energy from rubbish is harmless but he wants to get attention and votes

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By: Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:00:09 +0000

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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By: Paul Pen

Paul Pen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:40:27 +0000

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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By: jonty

jonty — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:25:42 +0000

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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By: public sector enemy

public sector enemy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:51:19 +0000

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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By: Tory boy

Tory boy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:00:40 +0000

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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By: John Aymes

John Aymes — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:46:32 +0000

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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By: Huw Peach

Huw Peach — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:53:07 +0000

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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By: Huw Peach

Huw Peach — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:37:46 +0000

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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By: Huw Peach

Huw Peach — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:36:00 +0000

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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