CHINEHAM TRIP WITH SAFE WASTE IN SHROPSHIRE ON SUNDAY 20 JULY
Veolia has been organising trips to their ‘energy recovery facility’ (aka incinerator) in Chineham, Basingstoke. This facility, which is very similar to the proposed Battlefield, Shrewsbury, one, appears to be something of a flagship. So far they have taken elected representatives and journalists from Shropshire there. Continue reading »
We are very pleased to announce that UKWIN’s application for membership of GAIA has been approved.
GAIA is an expanding international alliance of individuals, non-governmental organization, community-based organizations, academics and others working to end the incineration of all forms of waste and to promote sustainable waste prevention and discard management practices. Continue reading »
UKWIN April 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) Summary [draft]
23 participants attended UKWIN’s 2008 AGM, which took place in London on Saturday 12th April. A further 27 sent their apologies (some accompanied by a campaign update). The Chair of UKWIN, Stephen Eades, welcomed all to the AGM, and introduced the UKWIN Steering Group (SG) members and Shlomo Dowen, the newly appointed Network Coordinator. Continue reading »
UK Without Incineration Network
NEWSLETTER No 1 November 2007
Thanks to all who have joined the network, membership has now risen to about 30 groups and affiliate members and we are hoping to increase this steadily throughout the year. Continue reading »
We have been faced with a Regional Waste Plan, a consortium of 5 Local Authorities set up to contract for a joint residual waste “facility”, and an emerging Welsh Waste Strategy review.
Hyder was responsible for public consultation on our Regional Plan – they just pushed incinerators in their presentation and on-line trick questionnaire. The angle they are trying is that any industrial site could be used for a waste facility. They claim 4% per yr increase in waste, ignore increased recycling and put the numbers through the WRATE black-box. Continue reading »
November 2007: Nicola Day + DOVE’s Judicial Review of EA’s permission for Veolia to operate proposed incinerator quashed. The EA and Veolia say they did not properly explain the information about carbon emissions. Application not yet, as far as I am aware, resubmitted. Continue reading »
Update by Jeni Mackay Scottish Campaigns coordinator. CATs Scotland is currently working on the Waste framework Directive (WFD), IPPC and supporting Community groups facing efw developments in their areas. Continue reading »
ARROW has been running since December 1995. ARROW’s original aim was to stop a 3 million tonne landfill site, at Round O Quarry in West Lancashire from opening. When that campaign was successful in 2000 after 3 public enquiries and a court case, Lancs County Council opted for incineration. We managed to dissuade them from building an incinerator, through negative press and TV coverage, so they decided to go for refuse derived fuel. The planning application for the RDF plant was successful, but the company withdrew. Continue reading »
Discussion is around a 300,000 tpa facility for waste from around the region, including Warwickshire, some 35 miles away. Staffordshire County Council intends to submit a ‘pre-emptive’ planning application in May, before they put the contract to tender! Keith is keeping a close eye on this one too, while also remaining vigilant of the situations in Shrewsbury (where Veolia won the bid) and Telford (where a much smaller-scale facility is being considered). Keith is also in discussions with The Treasury, asking why they have allotted so much money to waste PFIs for incineration at a time when quantities of waste are actually falling.
Extensive lobbying by Keith Kondakor and others has improved the situation somewhat. Leicestershire County Council restored its 58% recycling target to its Expression of Interest in PFI credits (they already recycle 46.5%). On that basis, the size of the proposed facility has been reduced by 6% (11,000 tonnes) to a still oversized 180,000 tonnes per annum.
In this corner of the world we have Barry ‘The Yorkshire Terrier’ Robinson, who sends his apologies. Despite being made homeless by the floods, and despite planning permission and an operating license having been granted to WRG for their proposed Saltend plant, Barry and his band of HOTI warriors (Hull & Holderness Opposing the Incinerator), refused to stop fighting. As a result the planning conditions, including the famous Condition 18 which prohibits storage of hazardous waste on the site, are being reexamined and the operating license so recently granted by the Environment Agency has been withdrawn! Continue reading »
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