List of 600 people opposing burner
Monday 15th June 2009, 2:59PM BST.
About 600 people have now registered objections and comments over controversial plans for a £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury.
Veolia Environmental Services wants to create the burner at a site in Battlefield which it claims will cut the amount of waste going to landfill and generate enough power to supply electricity to 10,000 homes.
But campaigners have objected furiously against the plans.
They say they fear a rise in infant deaths, clusters of cancers and brain tumours because of emissions from the site.
Malcolm Bell, from Shropshire Council which is the planning authority, said that the council had received between 500 and 600 objections and representations about the incinerator.
He said: “We have had postcard representations as started by Friends of the Earth as well as letters and e-mails.
“We are just trying to do a final analysis of those objections. We will use those representations and anything now we get back to use as a means for further negotiation and consultation with Veolia.”
Mr Bell said the council had also received a petition against the proposals.
Friends of the Earth co-ordinator Val Oldaker said the cafe at the new Battlefield 1403 heritage centre had already carried out a petition with 300 people signing it.
Veolia says the facility at Battlefield would process 90,000 tonnes of Shropshire’s household waste and generate up to 8MW of electricity.
They have also said the proposed incinerator would not be detrimental to health and claim it is the most effective way of dealing with the county’s waste over the coming years.
A public meeting was held by the Environment Agency in Shrewsbury last week as part of the consultation over Veolia’s bid for a permit to run the incinerator.
Bosses from the Government agency have said that they wanted to hear the views of residents in the local community before they make a decision over whether to grant one for the proposed plant.
The Agency says it would like to receive all public comments before August 1, 2009.
By Russell Roberts
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its just not safe and its not needed
in shropshrie households are producing less waste than ever before and most of its being recycled
their sums dont stack up – there is not enough rubbish in all of shropshire to justify a 90,000 tonne burner
the only way they could do it would be to burn your recycling which is not acceptable morally or environmentally
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600?
i could give you 6000 just doing some door knocking in harlescott, i dont know any one thinks its a good idea to burn rubbish in this day and age
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this is a terrible idea
this just shows the anti feeling
most people cant be bothered to put pen to paper and engage with a formal planning process but they are still against it
you cant spend all that time and money getting people into recycling then turn round after 10 years and expect them to accept its ok to just burn our rubbish. Come on councillors lets have more recycling services instead
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dioxin = deadly
fly ash = toxic
Say no to this burner
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surely burning plastic is good though because its just oil so you get alot of energy out of it?
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ui would be interested to try and quanitufy just what 600 objections means in terms of relative quantity to a normal planning application. It would help if we could benchmark it against the more controversial planning applications of late in shrewsbury e.g. theatre, football stadium etc.
in the context of these i believe 600 (out of 60,000 residents in Shrewsbury) is very little
MOst people dont care about democracy, planning or green issues like this, its all about bread and butter issues like housing and the economy thats what really matters
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5 – since when was burning oil good ??
have you heard of acid rain and climate change ?
burning plastic produces thick black smoke and acidic compounds and is a source of CO2 which can cause global warming
GO AND DO YOUR HOME WORK!!
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you dont need a degree in chemistry to understand why so many people object. Burning rubbish is obviously a bad idea, look at the stuff at the tip its all full of tins of paint, electronics, dirty nappies, plastic bags all sorts of nasty stuff, imagine if a fire broke out there, the fire brigade would evacuate the whole area, its clearly going to produce nasty fumes
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I understand Veolia cannot meet their agreed recycling targets as part of the 27ys contract to collect Waste in Shropshire without this Incinerator.
I believe the County Council was incompetent to sign the contract without first getting planning permission for the Incinerator.
Plenty of other countries & and parts of England have Incinerators that do not produce toxic emissions. I wish the dunderheads who shout No without understanding that planning permission will be given only if the no emissions control is applied.
It sickens me how backward Shropshire is in grasping the reality of sustainable living – no to wind farms, no to incinerators, no statutory requirement for all new built homes to have alternative/solar powered water heating etc. No push to offer grants to householders for solid wall insulation (bearing in mind there are thousands of this type of brick built homes in the county).
Other Local Authorities are years ahead of this County – it’s wake up time people.
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The smell of burning is dreadful to anyone with breathing problems, and must not get the go ahead.
Radbrook Green again suffered for the last two days with the smoke coming all over the area from where is not yet known, but the acid taste in the throat was dreadfull.
When you get the windshift from any fires, the fallout travels for miles, so even us in Radbrook may well be affected by the fallout from this stupid idea that any type of burning can be clean.
Selfish people who light fires and have no concern as to how it effects others as long as the smoke blows away from their own home are open to prosecution, and should be dealt with in that way. Another nice weekend of being able to site in ones garden spoilt by such selfishness.
Once you have this huge monstrocity up and running there will be no going back.
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Paul Pen said:
“dioxin = deadly
fly ash = toxic”
You really don’t know how annagrams work, do you?
dioxin = do I Nix?
fly ash = flashy
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How many jobs will this create? Probably quite alot.
I’m sure if this boost to the economy were offered somewhere else in the country then all of the people above would be quite happy….. just not on their doorsteps!
I suggest putting it in the middle of Telford, it would certainly be more attractive than most of it…. probably smell better than the residents too! ;)
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I sent in an objection but I wonder that many good Shrewsbury/Shropshire people have not because they have no faith in the ‘democratic’ process, believe this decision is already made and this is just a paper exercise.
I fear that is the truth but cannot sit by and let this lot potentially pollute the air I and my children breathe….
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we need more renewable energy but this is not the answer because rubbish is not renewable it cannot go on being replaced for ever with no loss of energy, all this rubbish should be PREVENTED in the first place by things like packaging regulations and more environmental education.
We need more recycling services too like for plastic, thats all i need now is a plastic recycling service and i reckon id be ZERO waste, literally everything can be home composted or recycled now but plastic.
if the council spent the money on plastic recycling instead it would be cheaper and greener
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it will ruin the battlefield heritage site, who wants to come to a charming historical site when its over looked by a toxic chimney
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i am against the incinerator not a nuimby just like to try to hit higher recycling rates and try more innovative technologies like Anaerobic digestion instead
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Mike said “Selfish people who light fires….. are open to prosecution, and should be dealt with in that way.”
Since when has lighting a bonfire been a criminal offence?
pat young said “it will ruin the battlefield heritage site..”
No really alot to see anyway, just some fields you can see anywhere. I was in Cumbria looking down on Sellafield and to be honest it was interesting rather than an eye sore.
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Oh yes! The Battlefield Heritage Site, the tourist councils name for a few acres of grass.:-)
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this is all driven by the EU you know, more regulations against british businesses, telling us to do all this recycling nonesense and taking away weekly collections of rubbish, we the conservatives are proud to be committed to weekly refuse collections not just in Shropshire but all over the UK , so 2 fingers to clown brown and the Eu, just like winston we have two fingers of victory when we win the election you mark by words these lefties will be out and we will cut taxes and abandon big construction projects like this to help rebalance the public finances
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we the people say NO
no to PFI, no to pollution,
we want more recycling instead
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Ok then Dan, so can I assume that you reycle everything?
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600/30,000 households in Shrewsbury = 2% of population
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grrrrrrrr
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this is just an expensive pre treatment for landfill
one which is not cost effective, green or safe
lets hope the planners remember this goes against the original planning permission which SPECIFICALLY ruled out incineration at this site and the waste local plan which says we would only get the Best Practical Environmental Option, but not BPEO assessment has been done here and this is not the best option environmentally
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this goes agains the waste local plan so it cannot be legal surely, its certainly mass burn incineration and not suitable for so close to a residential area, plus it floods there
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i dont like the look of it, and im concerned about the poor recycling performance in shropshire which this doesnt address,
lets go hammer and tongs for another ten years with this recycling effort, see if we can get to 80 or 90 % recycling like some businesses achieve (CAT in Harlescott for example) and then i might beleive that incineration is neccessary
in the mean time the recession seems to be taking care of the waste mountain, people are thrifting and wanting not and there is not enough waste to justify the NEED in planning terms so surely they will turn it down espcially as said there its so clearly in breech of the local waste plan
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can i make that 601 please
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