‘United front’ call in Shrewsbury incinerator fight
Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 8:00PM BST.
Residents were this afternoon urged to show a united front and reveal their opposition when proposals for a controversial £60 million incinerator in Shrewsbury go before a public inquiry.
As the date approaches for the appeal on the rejected plans for the burner in Battlefield, the town’s MP Daniel Kawczynski is calling for people to display their strength of feeling against the scheme.
In September last year, the plans by Veolia for the incinerator were thrown out by Shropshire Council’s strategic planning committee after opposition from the Tory MP and thousands of residents.
Veolia then appealed against the refusal in late January, with the public inquiry due to start on September 27 at Shirehall.
Members of the public can attend the planning inquiry, and Mr Kawczynski has now urged as many people as possible to do so.
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We need the burner and it’s going to happen like it or not.
Yet again our useless tory pompous MP is trying to get stuck in something when it’s none of his business.
When are we going to see proof of a petition signed by all these so called residents that oppose it?
I doubt it’s 1000′s maybe a few 100 or so…
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Who says we need the burner – where is your evidence? Other more enlightened Local Authorities are considering Combined Heat and Power plants, gasificantion plants or Anaerobic Digesters together with better recycling of household waste. Icinerators are dinosaurs in terms of energy generation and waste disposal compared to the cleaner and more efficient alternatives that are available.
Maybe Shrewsbury Friends of the Earth would like to write on here details about how to sign the petition – I’ll be happy happy to put my name to it.
Do you work for Veolia by any chance?
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Our MP got 26,000 votes at the last election and was CHOSEN by US to represent our views which he is doing so though i didnt vote for him i agree with his stance on this and what ever mine or his opinion its not relevant his job is to speak for the people, the many not the few and the vast majority of true salopians are strongly opposed to this polluting and unsightly plant
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there were over 600 formal letters of objections to the planning aplication sid!
thousands are against it and there is an online petition going around too
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..and what if somebody is for the incinerator?
So many questions…so few answers
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We don’t need it serious sid, we need to encourage more recycling, which Shrewsbury is actually very good at already.
I understand that we cannot continue using landfill to the same extent as now but burning waste is not the answer.
I don’t want to breathe in the resultant toxins and I don’t want my children to either.
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Rubbish incineration for power is a possibility but carbon capture would be needed which is still at the early stages of development. The problem with this plan is that the location for the incinerator is wholly unsuitable. It’s proposed position, next to an organic food centre and downwind from the majority of the town is ridiculous. Development such as this should be located on or close to existing power generations sites such as Ironbridge power station. This has rail access for containerised waste and efforts have already been put in place to reduce particulates.
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completely anti this idea – its unwanted and unneeded
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this should just be chucked out now it goes against their own local plan and it was procured (via opaque PFI) at a time when the public sector was flush with cash, in this day and age there is no way the council taxpayer should be expected to honour this contract is simply rediculous for a small market town like Shrewbsury needs a massive industrial facility like this which are designed for cities like london and paris who have literally millions of tonnes of rubbish to deal with – its ludicrous to import that type and scale of plant to a little place like shrewsbury – its just not economic on a micro scale and not needed or welcome here
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Serious Sid obviously hasn’t done his research. We neither need nor want the burner.
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the council is living in la la land if it thinks it will ever get this built! for god sake have they not realised THERE IS NO MONEY LEFT!!!!! when schools are closing do you think people really want £65million spent on dealing with rubbish!!!! of all things!!!! I dont think so. And as there proposal is to borrow the money to build it from veolia and they are paying £11 million per annum over 25 years then thats £275,000,000 to pay back the £65,000,000 PFI debt on the construction = not good value for the taxpayer at all
business as usual is cheaper
more recycling is cheaper still
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Using a P24 Bag filter as detailed in the Veolia IPPC documentation.
30-35% of all PM2.5 fine particles produced will escape to the local atmosphere, 70-90% of ultrafines PM2.5> will escape to the local atmosphere unmonitored specifically or continually.
The Environmental Agency will monitor the more benign PM10 levels every 6 months….
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i think everyone i know is against this to that extent its a united front, the people of shrewsbury against the council who thinks it can dump rubbish on us
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Reading all these points and just reminding Mr Peach that does not mean I am supporting the incinerator I feel I’d like to make these comments.
1) Shropshire Council signed a contract with Veolia which they are not honouring if they do not allow the incinerator.Salopian Ian must live in Fairy Land if he thinks that Veolia will not want or do not have the right to be heavily compensated for this.
2)ph7 much as though you would like to relocate the pollution, bear in mind we have had an incinerator at the Crematorium on London Road next to a college for decades. It is in desparate need of upgrading so the chimney exudates meet present day EU Standards. This is why a lucrative contract has been drawn up with the Cooperative Funereal Services to pay for the upgrades in return for running the Crematorium for the next 30 years ( should see me off ! )
3) The council were obviously persuaded that this would be something of an earner for Shropshire, jonesy, a county that has a growing population but relies heavily on intensive agriculture, intensive farming, a small amount of tourism and people living here but working elsewhere.
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‘Something of an earner for Shropshire’, eva?
The National Audit Office said in April 2011 that PFI contracts have become MUCH more expensive since the credit crisis?
(For example the cost of a PFI scheme to widen the M25 rose by 24% after the credit crisis.)
Staying locked for nearly 3 decades in an increasingly expensive contract for something as unpopular as this burner, which undermines the local waste plan, doesn’t seem like great value for money for Shropshire taxpayers, does it?
The National Audit Office doesn’t think so. Why do you, eva?
PFI is ‘something of an earner’ for banks and capital-rich companies, yes.
But for Shropshire?
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in ludlow the shirehall mafia cancelled a brilliant popular successful food waste collection scheme to save a few thousand pounds now they are planning on spending hundreds of millions on a new energy from waste factory to replace it
something fishy doesnt stack up with the finances it stinks more than a kipper on a hotday on a fortnightly collection
rotten rotten stench to it all
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i would prefer them to put the money into an automated recycling facility then we could have a half decent recycling plastics and such and making it easy for people with less bins and stuff and if they have all that they wont have much rubbish left anymore and so no need for expensive, ugly, polluting burner
simples
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what about a united font for folk who dont wanna landfill no more
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Folk in San Francisco ‘dont wanna landfill OR INCINERATE no more’, KT.
http://www.sfenvironment.org/our_programs/overview.html?ssi=3
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